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Congratulations go to the Yeovil-based Castaway Theatre Group on a fantastic performance at Disneyland Paris (turn to our centre pages for a photo special). The young stage stars really put on a wonderful medley of song and dance from the musical Mary Poppins – in front of an international audience. You did our town proud!
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WELCOME to the September 2022
It has been the start of a new education year and children have been returning to school after the summer holidays – some are starting at “big” school, while smaller children are just setting out and making new friends for the first time.
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It is the start of a new sporting season for many teams and good luck to them for their campaigns ahead.
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YEOVIL Press reader Sally Matthews sent us this fabulous photo she took last month while out on a summer stroll. You can see Montacute village in the distance with Sally having taken the photo from the top of Hollow Lane near Batemore Barns. If you take a photo which you think could be included in our Photo of the Month feature in the future - please email us at yeovilpress@gmail.com. We look forward to receiving your photos. What's in your new local newspaper Pg 04: Quiz Time with Dan Harding Pg 06-07: Coffee Break Chat - Rob Fox Pg 08-11: Around the Town Pg 12-13: News at a Glance Pg 16-17: Acacia Lodge Pg 18-19: Business in Spotlight - Watly Engineering Pg 20: Photo Special: Helen Laxton School of Dance Pg 22-28: Exam Special - A-Levels and GCSEs
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Take care, keep well and please keep safe.
The July edition of Yeovil Press will be out on Thursday and Friday, October 13-14. If you would like to get in touch – please email yeovilpress@gmail.com .
And it is a month of new starts for so many – most notably for Liz Truss as Britain’s latest Prime Minister. Good luck to her, she’ll need it! She has a mammoth job ahead of her, especially trying to sort out the cost of living crisis and the spiralling energy prices which are a huge worry for so many people.
Thank you to those that have advertised in this edition –your support is very much appreciated as always.
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My thoughts are with everyone involved with Milford Junior School in Yeovil – the teachers, pupils and parents. To see the school building closed on safety grounds has presented major problems, but I hope the transition to the special arrangements which have been put into place will go as smoothly as possible. The building might be closed, but the name of Milford Junior School goes on!
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And sticking with the theatre – good luck to our friends at Yeovil Amateur Operatic Society and Yeovil Youth Theatre who will also be taking to the stage (closer to home in Yeovil) with the productions of Legally Blonde and Ghost respectively.
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If you score between 11 Points and 15 Points: Not bad, but nothing to shout about!Ifyou score between 16 Points and 23 Points: Well done, but still room for improvement!Ifyouscore between 24 Points and 28 Points: Excellent performance – Top of the Class!
01: For Two Points - Who scored the first goal in the Premier League and for which club? 02: Who was the first foreign player to score a Premier League hat-trick? 03: Which goalkeeper has kept the most clean sheets in a Premier League season? 04: For Six Points - name the six German footballers who have won the Premier League. 05: Who did Thierry Henry surpass to become Arsenal’s record goal scorer?
01: What alcohol is used to make a Mojito? 02: In what year did the RMS Titanic sink? 03: For Three Points what are the three primary colours? 04: In which country is Machu Pichu located? 05: Which Netflix show is based in a female prison? PHOTO ROUND Name these actors and actresses 1 2 43 5
We are delighted to welcome Dan Harding – our very own Quiz Man Dan –to the Yeovil Press who will be posing the questions each month.
There are a whopping 28 points up for grabs in Quiz Man Dan’s Question Time this month – good luck and the answers can be found on Page 43 of this edition of the Yeovil Press. We think some of you
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WELCOME to this month’s Question Time quiz – so get your thinking caps on!
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Dan is well-known in the Yeovil area and a keen quizzer and is thrilled to have been given the task of posing the questions each month.
If you score less than Five Points – Oh dear, you need to go and stand in the corner!Ifyou score between Five Points and 10 Points – Hmmm, you need to start reading more encyclopaedias!
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PHOTO: Rob Fox. Cricket Ballet lead singer Tony Hadley.
Club 3: Live: Yeovil 4: Places of education: Huish Primary School, Yeovil Grammar School, Westfield Comprehensive School and Yeovil College 5: Who was/were your best pal/pals at school? Andy Gould and Tim Reeves 6: What was your favourite lesson at school? Woodwork or Games 7: Your favourite teacher? Miss Rowson 8: What is your proudest moment? Birth of our twins 9: What is your favourite meal? Mixed grill 10: What was your favourite TV programme as a child? Blue Peter 11: Who was your childhood hero? Mick Channon 12: What’s the one thing you couldn’t live without? Cricket and Football 13: What is your favourite drink? Guinness 14: What is your favourite band or pop group? Spandau Ballet 15: Who is your favourite singer? Tony Hadley 16: What was the first record you ever bought? See My Baby Jive by Wizard 17: What is something you’ve never tried but want to? Travelling to Australia 18: Tea or Coffee? Coffee 19: Cinema or Theatre? Theatre 20: Going out or staying in? Going out 21: What is your favourite sport? Cricket, football a close second 22: What is your favourite sporting moment? Southampton winning the FA cup in 1976 Spandau
Turn to Questions 14-15.
WELCOME to the Coffee Break Chat feature to the Yeovil Press – YOUR monthly community newspaper – in which we ask somebody from the local community a set of random questions. Each month we will pose 35 questions to a member of the local community and they will give their truthful and honest answers about their likes and dislikes, hopes and aspirations and childhood memories.Itisalla bit of fun, but might provide some interesting and discussionprovoking questions along the way for Yeovil Press readers.
Coffee Break Chat has been kindly sponsored by the No5 Café Diner which can be found at Kingfisher Close in Gazelle Road on the Lynx Trading Estate. The No5 Cafe Diner has an extensive breakfast and lunch menu.
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Turn to Question 11. Boy
With the 2022 cricket season having now come to a close this month’s Coffee Break Chat spotlight falls on Rob Fox, chairman of Yeovil Cricket Club, who is no doubt well-known to many of the Yeovil Press readers.
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Southampton FC legend Mick Channon (right) with Kevin Keegan. band Spandau Ballet
For more Yeovil Cricket Club news–turn to Pages 63-65 in this month’s edition of Yeovil Press.
were big in the 1980s with hits such as True, Gold and Through the Barricades. Turn to Question 14. A legendary moment from long-running children’s television show Blue Peter. Turn to Question 10. A pub restaurant classic – a mixed grill. Turn to Question 9.
35 questions in 60 seconds 1: Name: Rob Fox 2: Occupation or associated with: Work at Leonardo Helicopters and chairman of Yeovil
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31: If you could do anything for the rest of your life what would that be? Live with no health issues
Legendary Yeovil Town striker Fred “Johnny” Hayward scored a mammoth 548 goals for the club between 1907 and 1927. Leonardo Helicopters.
Turn to Question 2. Yeovil Cricket Club was previously known as Westland Sports Cricket Club. Turn to Question 2. Popular tourist destination of Turkey. Turn to Question 24. Rob is not a fan of TV reality show Love Island. Turn to Question 27.
34: Would you rather go into space or to the bottom of the ocean? Neither
35: Tell us something that might surprise us about you. I’m the grandson of the late Johnny Hayward who holds the record for most goals for one club anywhere in the country playing for Yeovil Town League outfit Southampton FC.
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Turn to Question Wizard23. and See My Baby Jive – a UK number one hit in 1973. Turn to Question 16.
32: How many bones have you broken? None
33: What’s the best (clean) joke you’ve ever heard? It wouldn’t be clean
30: Which three traits define you? Loyal, fun to be with, good sense of humour
Turn to Question 35. See Rob’s thoughts on the National Lottery – Turn to Questions 25-26. Yeovil-based
“It was an encouraging turnout and and made for a worthwhile Show,” said a spokesman.Amongthe visitors to the show on August 14 was the Mayor of Yeovil, Cllr Evie Potts-Jones, who was delighted to present the prizes.
The Home Produce Trophy was won jointly by Maggie Billing and Christopher Challis, while the Junior Cup went to Evie-Sky Hallett, for a pretty, handdecorated flower pot and an impressively intricate and creative model allotment on a plate.Unsurprisingly, Manny Roper completed his haul of trophies, with the Anne Meyrick Memorial Tankard for the most points overall in show – and he was jokingly threatened with being appointed as a judge next year, which would preclude him entering, and so give everyone else a chance!
PHOTO: Débora Horta.
THE St Andrew’s Scout Group in Yeovil will be holding an Open Day on Saturday, September 17, in a bid to attract new members.
FROM encouraging professional development and learning opportunities to advocating for patients and their families with care and compassion, Débora Horta has truly earned her place in the shortlist for this year’s Nursing Times’ award for Nurse Leader of the Year.
She also co-authored an article on Neonatal sepsis which was published in the British Journal of Nursing to help improve awareness and offer practical guidance for readers.
Her nominator, Dr Siba Paul, said: “Always positive, always smiling and cheerful and always sensible is possibly the best way to sum up Débora.
Special Care Baby Unit ward manager in line for top award
exhibit (a stunning single gladioli and the Crystal Vase for most points.
Somerset Supports Ukraine charity gets town council support
The event will be held from 10am to 1pm at the group’s Scout Hall headquarters in Preston Grove – not far from the junction with Grove Avenue.
THE Yeovil Allotments Association held its 11th Annual Show at Brimsmore Garden Centre on a sweltering hot Sunday.
The charity’s mission is to raise money to support the ongoing work of charities and other organisations in Somerset allowing them to increase their capacity and build on their experience.
PHOTO 1: Allotmenteer David Recardo.
Somerset Supports Ukraine believes that the best way to support the humanitarian tragedy in Ukraine is to enable these charities and other organisations to do more.
YEOVIL Town Council has announced that a £5,000 grant will be given to the Somerset Supports Ukraine charity.
Chief Nurse Hayley Peters added: “It is a proud moment when one of our many nurses gets recognised for all the hard work that they do here. To have one of them be a leader, helping and encouraging their team members to grow and enrich their own knowledge, is a pleasure to learn.”
Organisers would like to thank the Gardens Group, and especially to Brimsmore Garden Centre, for their extremely generous support all through the year, enabling the association to hold its monthly meetings and annual show there.“Congratulations to all who managed to put in exhibits, despite the weather, and especially to the individual winners in each class, and of course to the trophy winners,” added the spokesman. “We look forward, as all gardeners and allotmenteers do, to an even better year nextPHOTOS:year.”
Débora said: “I am very happy that I was nominated for this award and I’m glad that I have such a supportive team surrounding me during this exciting time.”The awards will be announced on Wednesday, October 26.
She works as ward manager and senior sister in the Special Care Baby Unit at Yeovil District Hospital. Some of her notable moments include reaching out to senior managements to introduce new improvements, achieving significant change in care provided to infants and families, UNICEF accreditation as well as Family Centred Care accreditation.
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superb problem solving skills to support staff, babies and their families to the highest of standards.”
Scout group hosting an Open Day
“Through Scouting children learn all sorts of skills while making new friends and developing independence at the
The Home Produce Trophy was won jointly by Maggie Billing and Christopher Challis and they are pictured with the Mayor.
The association’s tenth show was three years ago and had attracted a record number of 196 entries. Considering the gap since then, through Covid-19, and the fact that membership had not yet fully recovered, plus the extremely challenging weather conditions this year, a very creditable entry of 147 exhibits were entered for fruit and vegetables, flowers, and home baking and preserves, plus a junior section.
Evie-Sky Hallett.
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same time,” said a spokesman for St Andrew’s.“Wecurrently have spaces available for children aged between six and nineand-a-half – so please pop in and have a go at some Scouting activities with our leaders.”Group leaders will be available during the Open Day to answer any specific Scouting questions, while refreshments will also be served.
Courtesy of David Recardo.
“Débora is extremely knowledgeable and always a pleasure to work with even during the most challenging of situations. She shows great empathy and possesses
that helps displaced Ukrainians.
Councillors agreed back on July 6 that they wanted to support those Ukrainians who had fled their country because of the Russian invasion and had arrived in this area.Itwas announced on Monday, August 22, that the £5,000 grant would be given to the Somerset Supports Ukraine charity
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The association’s chairman, Manny Roper, had entered a record number of exhibits and was rewarded with a clean sweep of the trophies in both the fruit and vegetable section and the flower section.Forfruit and vegetables, he was awarded the Chairman’s Cup for the best exhibit which was a dish of perfectly succulent red currants and the Albert Knight Cup for the most points. Manny won the Flower Cup for the best floral
The Mayor, Cllr Evie Potts-Jones, congratulates Manny Roper.
the exhibitors include Avon and Somerset Police, The Army, Train 4 All, Timberwise and the NHS.
Overall winner was a fantastic scarecrow entitled The Lioness – in honour of England women’s European Championship winning football team.
There were concerns that an envisaged event would not go ahead after the Yeovil Pride group announced that it was cancelling its plans because of a variety ofButreasons.theYeovil
“Pride is a celebration of people coming together in love and friendship, to show how far LGBT+ rights have come, and how in some places there’s still work to be done – even in the UK. And it’s too important to miss, which is why we did our best to ensure Yeovil got the Pride it wants and deserves.
ORGANISERS of a scarecrow competition on the Wyndham Park estate in Yeovil were delighted with the amount of people who took part.
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A JOBS Fair is coming to Yeovil this month with the aim of connecting job hunters to employers.
Somerset Jobs director, Stu Wright, said: “I’m delighted to bring an event to Yeovil. It really is a brilliant opportunity to meet and chat with employers about their vacancies that are available and get a feel of “Helpingthings.people get an opportunity to find work and improve their lives is something I’m passionate about.”
A range of jobs and apprenticeship opportunities will be on show as some of
“Trying to organise an event like this and make it impactful, enjoyable, safe and accessible to all was no easy task –let alone in just a few weeks.”
There were also speeches from local LGBT+ people and supporters, arts and craft activities, some live music and a scavenger hunt.
Scarecrow competition brings fun to Wyndham Park
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“The response we had was incredibly positive. We were so moved by the offers of volunteers, contacts, resources and even people decorating shop windows with Pride flags and themes.
The event will be held at the Westlands Entertainment Venue on Wednesday, September 21, from 11am to 4pm.
The estate was bedecked with imaginative and colourful scarecrows of all shapes and sizes which gave judge Cllr Tony Lock a tough task.
Jobs fair could provide people with new employment and careers
Between 30 and 40 exhibitors are expected on the day to showcase their vacancies and it is a fantastic opportunity to speak directly with employers.
Pride is a celebration of people coming together in love and friendship
“It’s such an unusual time in the world
THE people of Yeovil came together on September 3 for a newly organised event dubbed Yeovil Does Pride.
of recruitment currently, many people are looking for different jobs and flexible working arrangements, this event could
Diversity Project came forward to save the day and quickly organised Yeovil Does Pride – a parade through the town leading down to the Yeovil Country Park for a picnic.
Mr Wright added: “Our last event in Taunton was a great success with some very positive feedback from both job hunters and recruiters and this event will build on from that.
help with that.”
Everyone who entered was a winner really, but Cllr Lock had to decide who would get the prizes.
A selection of employment support organisations will also be available on the day such as the Community Employment Hubs and the National Careers Service.
Lou Langdon, chairperson of Yeovil Diversity Project, said, “Pride is about being proud of who you are; regardless of whether you experience love, romantic
attraction or sexual attraction and if you do, regardless of whoever you have those feelings for.
Europe.”Yeovilis currently twinned with Herblay in France, Taunusstein in Germany and Samarate in Italy.
The twinning association is looking forward to hosting a French twinning group in Yeovil within the next few weeks - find out more over a cup of tea and a biscuit!
THE Mayor and Deputy Mayor, Cllrs Evie Potts-Jones and Andy Kendall, will be hosting a joint event with Yeovil Twinning Association at the Town House next month to raise awareness of twinning.
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The event will take place at Yeovil Town Council’s headquarters in Union Street on Wednesday, October 12, between 1pm andThis4pm.event is open to all and will give you a flavour of our town’s valued partnership through the eyes of the locals that have played a big part in keeping open the thriving communications and friendships over the years.
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Yeovil followed many other towns after the Second World War by building links and friendships across Europe. The idea behind twinning was that people would not fight their friends in Europe and that reconciliation and prosperity would flourish.
The Mayor was pleasantly surprised on a recent visit to Herblay that she found a copy of the Yeovil Press in a small library bookcase located along the bank of the River Seine.
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Cllr Potts-Jones said: “The association is keen to promote culture and encourage friendship in all age groups, with the objective of developing a broad understanding of our communities and the communities of our friends in
THE eat:Festival will be back in Yeovil on Saturday, September 17, between 10am and 4pm at St John’s Churchyard, King George Street and the Quedam Centre.
Food and drink festival makes a welcome return to Yeovil
As schools go back and thoughts turn to the autumn harvest and ultimately, Christmas the eat:Festival team is planning a full season free to attend locally focused food and drink festivals across the region. This comes after a busy spring and summer with festivals delivered in 12 towns including Yeovil, Clevedon, Teignmouth and Lyme Regis.
“At eat:Yeovil you can expect to find 50 local food and drink producers including farmers market favourites like beer, cheese and bakers alongside some ace street food, charcuterie and some awardwinning patisserie. We aim to cater for all dietary needs and all the entertainment is free too.”
Project Space will also
have a day of live music and DJs.
Look out for the stilt walker who will help you find your way around the events and point you in the direction of the circus skills workshop to have a go at balancing, juggling, spinning and twirling.
Super Saturday has a packed programme of fun
If you are a performer at heart, why not have a go at being a Town Crier?! Look out for further information on Yeovil Town Council’s social media Facebook page.Acouncil
On the same day is Yeovil’s Super Saturday with lots of activities and music throughout the town. eatfestivals
Amongst other attractions, enjoy the creepiness and the crawliness of mini beasts who visit for the day with Bugfest, let off steam on the bouncy castle or ask Lucy Lost-it! to create a beautiful balloon model just for you.
AN exciting day of food, music and entertainment in Yeovil town centre will be held on Saturday, September 17, when the annual Super Saturday event takes place.
There will be glorious and delicious food by local producers and artisans as the eat:Festival brings the very best West Country food and drink to Yeovil.
Choose your favourite and settle down to watch a traditional Punch and Judy show by Professor Gary Wilson and do not miss the wonderful and awe-inspiring performances by Pirate Taxi of Pirates of the Carabina in the Quedam.
Music throughout the town centre will be provided by Abbey 104 in the Quedam and at Buskstops in Middle Street and St John’s Church yard, as talented musicians from near and far busk for their chosen charity.TheEastville
spokesman said: “A huge thank you from Yeovil Town Council to all those volunteering on the day and for making Super Saturday a fantastic community event for all.”
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Sarah said: “Every town we work with is unique – offering us fresh opportunities for making local connections, discovering new producers and creating new habits.
The dynamic duo of Sarah Milner Simonds and Bev Milner Simonds are now looking ahead to a whole new set of adventures sharing their love of local of seasonal produce.
We find some real gems as we are out and about, and we love sharing our discoveries with visitors at our one-day events.”AndBev added: “The partnership with Yeovil Town Council has given us the opportunity to create a new event for the area - showcasing the bricks and mortar businesses that are here all year round and adding some tasty complimentary producers, makers and entertainment.
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A FORMER Yeovil Mayoress has thanked everyone for their support in a project to provide sustainable sanitary kits to people.
Jeanette Pezare, 65 of North Perrott: Pleaded guilty to permitting a premises to be used for cannabis production and received a conditional discharge.
Forensics work was carried out and led police to discover a number of other men were involved in the criminal enterprise.
PEOPLE are really spoilt for choice this year at the Yeovil Literary Festival with over 50 names to choose from including well-known literary figures, comedians, celebrities and exciting new writers.
team would like to thank the 2022 sponsors - Symonds & Sampson, Laceys Yeovil Ltd, The Gardens Group, Grace Productions, Yeovil Community Arts Association, Chalmers & Co and Great Western Railway.
Each kit contains four towels, a shield to house the towels and a waterproof purse for storage.“Iwould like to give a big shout out of thanks to everyone who has supported this project either by sewing or donating items to the fact we have managed to deliver 1,000 sustainable sanitary kits so far this year via Shelterbox and School in a Bag – what an achievement!” she said. “That’s in total 2,000 kits since we began in 2021 and we haven’t even got to the end of 2022 yet!”
FOUR people have been ordered to pay back more than £375,000 in cash and assets after being convicted of being involved in the supply of illegal drugs.
“We hope cases such as this shows criminals that they will not be allowed to benefit from crime.”
The driver of the car – a woman in her 20s – was sadly pronounced at the scene. Her family have been informed and our thoughts are with them. They are receiving support from a specially trained officer.
Michael Swanston, 57 of Taunton: Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cannabis and received an 16-month suspended sentence with requirement for 150 hours of unpaid work.
“Not only does the Yeovil Literary Festival bring writers, speakers and thinkers to our doorstep in Somerset, it inspires the listeners of authors to pick up a book to improve brain connectivity, reduce stress and have a positive mental impact.
Confiscation orders totalling £376,059.32 for Wells-Burr, Macquarrie, Swanston and Barnes have been handed out by the court so far under the Proceeds of Crime Act. A confiscation order hearing for Pezare is expected to be held at a later date.
Anna Shutler, who acted as the Mayoress when her husband Darren was Mayor from 2016-18, has previously been featured in the Yeovil Press about making washable and reusable sanitary towel pads for women in developing countries around the world.
The driver of the van was taken to hospital with serious injuries, where he currently remains.
Yeovil Literary Festival takes place this year between Thursday, October 20, and Monday, October 24, with events taking place at The Octagon Theatre, Westlands Entertainment Venue and Yeovil Library.
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The festival is a not-for-profit partnership between the Octagon Theatre and Westlands Entertainment Venue (part of South Somerset District Council), Waterstones Yeovil, the Yeovil Community Arts Association and Somerset Libraries.
Phillip Barnes, 51 of Taunton: Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to produce cannabis and received a 10-month suspended sentence with requirement for 150 hours of unpaid work.
Bradley Bishop, 28 of Stoke St Mary: Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to produce cannabis and received two-year community order with requirement for 150 hours of unpaid work.
The other people to be sentenced were:
The full-up line for the festival has now been revealed, which includes Liz McConaghy, Tom Kerridge, Delia Smith, Hugh Fearnley-
been able to put together such a fantastic line-up for this year.
HERE are some news stories from the Yeovil and South Somerset area.
“All the directors and I hope you all can find much at the Yeovil Literary Festival to entertain and inspire you.”
The ringleader of the group, Wesley WellsBurr, was jailed for three years and seven months after police discovered cannabis factories in Chard and Churchstanton, near Taunton.
OFFICERS are investigating a fatal collision that happened on the A303 in Somerset on Thursday, August 18.
Adam Burgan, one of the festival directors and also arts and entertainment venues manager at the Octagon Theatre and Westlands Entertainment Venue, said: “Yeovil Literary Festival has established itself as a major leading literary festival for the South West and I am thrilled that we have
If you would like to get involved in any way –find the group on social media Facebook under the name of Sustainable Sanitary Kits (Yeovil).
A two-vehicle collision, involving a car and a van, near the Wincanton area occurred at about 11.20pm.
Wesley Wells-Burr, 64 of North Perrott, was jailed at Taunton Crown Court on Tuesday, August 9, for 43 months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cannabis.
Jay Macquarrie, 30 of Taunton: Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cannabis and received an 18-month suspended sentence with requirement for 180 hours of unpaid work.
Police enquiries into the criminal enterprise began back in May 2017, when during a search for a missing person they encountered Jay Macquarrie with a significant amount of cannabis.Phonework was carried out and discovered a link between him and Wells-Burr, leading to a warrant being conducted in Chard two months later at an address owned by Wells-Burr and Jeanette Pezare. As the investigation continued, two other sites in Churchstanton were searched belonging to the pair, where officers seized thousands of pounds’ worth of cannabis, cash and a firearm.
Whittingstall, Melanie C, Hugh Bonneville, Anton du Beke, Dr Thomas Halliday, Amy Jeffs, Janice Hallett, David Parker, Ben Okri, Simon Mayo, Brendan O’Carroll, Rich Hall plus many Celebratingmore.its
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“It is not acceptable that criminals benefit from illegal activities, and we will relentlessly pursue them through the courts to ensure their proceeds are taken away from them.
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Anyone who witnessed the collision, or has dashcam or CCTV footage from the area, is asked to call 101 and give reference number 5222199420.
tenth anniversary, Yeovil Literary Festival has been bringing writers, speakers and thinkers to entertain, inspire and enlighten audiences. The festival has gone from strength to strength and welcomed ever more inspirational artists and authors to Somerset with over 6,000 tickets sold for the 2021 festival.
Dr Kirstie Cogram, manager of the Complex Crime Unit, said: “We are committed to seizing any assets gained as a result of criminal activity.
Julliet Pentolfe) where she took an early lead - and maintained it! I enjoyed watching one of the walking football clubs at Westlands too; it is always good to see everyone out enjoying themselves.
I was pleasantly surprised to see copies of our local paper in their little libraries along the River Seine too. My visit was in preparation for the twinning open day at Yeovil Town Council on October 12 between 1pm and 4pm.
THIS month I popped across the border to visit Herblay in France - one of Yeovil’s twinned towns.
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My summer holidays have been full of visits to sports clubs and various charity events. I tried out the new pickleball club with the Mayor of Sherborne (Cllr
in the country for growing vegetables! If you are interested in having an allotment and growing giant food please contact Yeovil Town Council.
Herblay is situated 17 miles from Paris and, like us, their town centre is under a regeneration phase and looks to have a fresh and positive future.
I had the weirdest and most wonderful day at Wareham’s Civic Day hosted by their Mayor, Cllr Malcolm Russell. I can honestly say I thoroughly enjoyed myself and after witnessing some of their town’s traditions - I have come home feeling pretty normal.
Well done to all involved with making Yeovil Pride happen this year. Our town was filled with waves of colours washing through our streets - bringing love, unity and diversity. The Yeovil Diversity Project led the way - supported by Yeovil Art Space and many locals.
I was invited to be part of Yeovil’s allotment show and was honoured to have been asked to hand out prizes. I am pretty sure the onions were painted pumpkins or we have the best conditions
On a final note, I received a message for Yeovil from Buckingham Palace on behalf of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II which read: “She thanks Yeovil for their kind message sent on the 70th Anniversary of her Accession and sends
her best wishes to you all for a most enjoyable Platinum Jubilee Year.”
CLLR EVIE POTTS-JONES Mayor of Yeovil
MAYOR'S DIARY: Yeovil receives a letter from Buckingham Palace
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Mr Lambden later said: “Planning applications like this are often judged passed or rejected on matters of planning law. But sometimes common sense will tell you that this application is just
Mr Lambden continued: “Since I have been at the helm of the Quicksilver in the past 20 years Yeovil has lost over 20 pubs for good - unbelievable but sadly true.
Acacia Lodge would be a drug dealer's paradise
He also spoke on behalf of Heather Norris, of the First Steps Nursery, just a few doors down from Acacia Lodge.
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Mr Lambden spoke at the Area South committee meeting of South Somerset District Council on August 10 about the impact it would have on his business at the Quicksilver Mail pub.
“I’m probably the only retired chief inspector that’s policed a homeless hostel for any length of time,” he said. “Acacia Lodge is one of the worst care homes I
WELL-KNOWN pub landlord Pete Lambden made a passionate appeal to councillors to turn the Acacia Lodge planning application down.
“But what about tomorrow’s customers - where will they go for Sunday Lunch or granny’s birthday meal? You can’t fix the bottom of town by watering down the rest of Yeovil.”
“That building from a policing point of view, dealing with a call from the staff safe room, is a nightmare. There isn’t a line of sight worthwhile on any of the landings. That building is a drug dealer’s paradise.“I’vepoliced an 18-bed hostel in a busy town in the south of England, and we’d get called out once a month. You’ve had 700 calls in three years.
“It’s not going to work. Don’t do it.”
The meeting of South Somerset District Council’s Area South committee held at The Gateway on August 10.
“So the two businesses that neighbour Acacia lodge are now staring into the abyss and trade for both of us is falling off because of rumours etc about what is
“The whole family experience is taken care of and just recently the pub was awarded the accolade of being in the top five per cent of pubs and restaurants in the country taken from the thousands of reviews on trip adviser and Google.
PHOTO:wrong.”The meeting of South Somerset District Council’s Area South committee held at The Gateway on August 10.
Gerald Smith was among the large group of people who attended South Somerset District Council’s Area South meeting on August 10.
“So what is the future for my famous old pub first opened in 1841? Energy bills are sky high, business rates set at over £30,000 per year, inflation eating away at any potential profit; we will have another Tesco Express or Co-op or maybe The Quicksilver Close with flats and apartments and houses. Not that many would want to buy next to a homeless shelter“Ifthis planning application goes ahead I am sure that it will have such an effect
“The pub is the hub as they saycatering for Christenings, birthday parties, engagement parties, weddings and, sadly, family wakes.
A RETIRED police chief inspector told councillors that turning the former Acacia Lodge care home into a homeless shelter would be a “drug dealer’s paradise.”
Quicksilver landlord said he would have to close if homeless shelter went ahead
happening on Hendford Hill.”
“We are both now in real danger of losing our businesses,” he told councillors. “Heather has had cancellations because Parents have been waiting for the outcome of a planning application that has been rumbling on for almost a year - a planning application that had over 700 written objections from concerned residents.”MrLambden said: “Both of these businesses are part of the local community. I have been running the Quickie since 2002 - that’s 20 years. Heather has been running her nursery for 30 years. She and her team are now looking after the children of the children that she looked after 25 years ago. Between us that’s 50 years of service to the local community Heather’s nursery aims to give children the best start in life. The Ofsted reports are glowing, highly recommended and a credit to Heather and all of her staff.
that I will have to close - I will have to retire a few years early
YEOVIL people broke out into applause on August 10 after plans for a new homeless hostel likened to a “drug dealer’s paradise” were unanimously refused.
These same residents are now celebrating after the plans were roundly refused by the council’s Area South committee after more than three hours of deliberation.Thecouncil will now work with BCHA to find alternative, smaller sites which can provide the best outcome for homeless people in the district.
Controversial Acacia Lodge plans are unanimously thrown out by council
The organisation applied to take over the former Acacia Hodge care home on the A30 Hendford Hill, relocating all its current residents to the new site – plans which have generated considerable backlash from Yeovil residents.
“It is the older generation who suffer most from perceived or actual crime or disorder. Your contempt for the older generation is absolutely shameful.”
“Even Martin Hancock, CEO of BCHA, advocated smaller housing units in their Clock Tower project in Bournemouth. This is not the best solution for the homeless.”
“The people of Yeovil have come out and made the point eloquently and articulately. We should reject this on good, sound planning grounds.”
Cllr Kaysar Hussain added: “This looks like we are setting up a Shawshank Redemption-style jail or something. It will look like a concentration camp – I’m not going to support it.”
The property has been commercially marketed since January 2019, but the council reports there has been “no interest” in reopening the site as a care home.The Pathways site on Newton Road, which can house up to 30 people, is deemed “no longer fit for purpose” by BCHA.While the BCHA has been working hard to support residents over the last three years, the organisation feels that the current premises can no longer meet
“If you think the fear of crime is unfounded, the number of times the police was called by Pathways over a three-year period was 770 times.”
The plans for Acacia Lodge would have seen them house 39 residents at the former care home, with the possibility of expansion in the future.
“Nobody wants it – not the community, local businesses, the town council, our MP, and the homeless people we’ve spoken to. Not even the applicants –they’d rather have a different option.
The Bournemouth Churches Housing Association currently operates the Pathways facility on Newton Road in Yeovil town centre, under a contract with South Somerset District Council.
The council’s district executive committee voted in June 2021 to provide up to £390,000 towards the purchase of Acacia Lodge, with the remaining funds being provided by BCHA and Homes England.However, this grant was dependent upon planning permission for the new facility being approved – meaning to date, not one penny of it has been spent.
HOHH member Steve Chorley said: “97 per cent of respondents to our survey felt their fear of crime would increase if this plan were to go ahead.
It lies within the Yeovil conservation area, a short distance from the popular Quicksilver Mail pub, the Yeovil Country Park (also known as Ninesprings) and the Keyford development site, which will eventually deliver up to 800 new homes.
Thomas Taylor argued the plans went against BCHA’s own vision for accommodating homeless people in smaller units, where support could be more intensive and bespoke to individuals’ needs.
not a bad organisation – this is just a bad application.
After nearly three-and-a-half hours’ debate, the committee voted unanimously to refuse planning permission –prompting widespread applause from members of the public.
Nigel Gage, who sits on Yeovil Town Council, said: “The town centre has become a war zone, with the police being unable to control the situation due to a lack of resources.
Acacia Lodge lies at 116 Hendford Hill, a short distance from the busy Quicksilver roundabout which links the town centre to the nearby village of West Coker and Dorset via the A37 Dorchester Road.
Avon and Somerset Constabulary did not provide a formal response to the council during the consultation period, and did not send any representatives to speak at the Confrontedmeeting,with the scale and eloquence of these objections, not one councillor on the committee spoke in favour of the Acacia Lodge plans.
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Cllr Graham Oakes added: “BCHA is
The four-storey former care home, which has 39 bedrooms, closed its doors in November 2018 after an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) deemed it “inadequate” for meeting residents’ needs.
“Only one person appears to be driving this forward: the leader of the council. The plan is wrong.”
The BCHA could theoretically lodge an appeal with the Planning Inspectorate in a bid to overturn the decision; however, the organisation has not yet given an indication that it wishes to pursue this angle.The council and BCHA will now work together to see what alternative, smaller sites could be secured to ensure the district’s homeless population are properly supported.
He said: “The facility is too large. The proposals for 39 beds – with the prospect of increasing by a further 40 beds – is in contrast to national government policy and those of charities such as Crisis.
The former Acacia Lodge care home at the top of Hendford Hill in Yeovil.
The council hopes to improve Newton Road and the surrounding area as part of its flagship Yeovil Refresh regeneration scheme, which has attracted funding from the government’s future high streets fund.Dozens of residents gathered at The Gateway on Addlewell Lane on August 10 to voice their displeasure – including numerous members of the pressure group Hands Off Hendford Hill (HOHH).
Since then, the facility has been used by Yeovil Hospital to provide additional bed capacity during the coronavirus pandemic, and is currently used by Enable Support Services, which provides mental health services for NHS patients.
He said: “This will be a recipe of disaster on so many levels. We as councillors are here to help Yeovil prosper, and speak on behalf of our residents.”
Cllr David Gubbins said residents and businesses would be “disastrously affected” if the plans were approved.
Cllr Gina Seaton said: “It isn’t that we don’t want to help everybody in this area. It is that Acacia Lodge is not fit for purpose.
“I was horrified during the site visit last night [August 9]. Smaller buildings are where we should be going – that is the advice we have received, and it is not beyond the wit of man to achieve it.”
residents’ needs.
“If we don’t have an official view from the police, I would rather listen to the retired police officer who says there will be a problem – or the people I met during the local elections in the Westland ward who told me they were scared.
Documentary film-maker Roy Tostevin, who lives on West Coker Road, said:
Some of the members of staff of Watly Engineering outside the firm’s premises on Lynx Trading Estate in
the
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Yeovil Press editor Steve Sowden said: “It was great to invite Watly Engineering to become the first company in our new feature entitled Business in Spotlight.
If any company or business would
Mark and Rob started out as engineering apprentices in the early 2000s and then met up again a few years later working together for another firm.
Watly Engineering is a friendly, established and growing businessworking with all aspects of stainless steel for the food, dairy, and beverage industry from design, manufacturing and installation. Watly Engineering is happy to work with private individuals on bespoke projects.
“Mark and Rob have obviously done really well so far and it’s great to know that in Yeovil we have these great businesses which are offering skilled employment to local people.”
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Watly can help customers to find a way to achieve their goals
Engineering
The company only recently celebrated its sixth birthday, but during that time the business has continued to grow.
But they then had the light bulb moment to go into business and they took the plunge and launched Watly Engineering.Itwasjust the two of them at the start, but with work building up they knew that they needed extra pairs of hands and now have a team of more than 15.
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TUCKED away on the Lynx Trading Estate in Yeovil is a company which is going from strength to strength and flourishing.
Watly Engineering Ltd – the brainchild of Mark Watts and Rob Holly – is a specialist stainless steel welding, fabricating and engineering company.
PHOTO: Directors of Watly Engineering – Mark Watts and Rob Holly. Photo: Christine Jones.
Key to the success of Watly Engineering is its ability to work closely with the customers.“Nomatter what the project involves, with our fresh, flexible approach and forward-thinking we are experienced in assisting customers with requirements that go beyond our standard range of products,” they said. “Whatever the customer requirements are we can find a way to help achieve their goals.”
The Helen Laxton School of Dance is now reserving places in all of its classes for the autumn term. Please forwww.helenlaxtonschoolofdancing.comseedetails.
Talented pupils impress in Royal Academy of Dance examinations
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The Helen Laxton School of Dance
for our next exciting full length musical production, the schools version of ‘We Will Rock You’, a fantastic challenge and learning experience for all of our pupils.”
“We also run Acting, Singing and Stage Dance classes at The Somerset School of Performing Arts for children aged four to 19 years. This term we will be preparing
And Helen added: “Many of our former pupils are now ‘living the dream’ dancing and performing professionally in the West End, in Ballet, Dance and Drama companies, on TV, in films, on cruise ships, as backing dancers for some of the most iconic pop stars, in advertising, modelling and also working behind the scenes in theatres all over the world.
Classes held in Yeovil, Bradford Abbas, Crewkerne, East Coker, South Petherton, Ilminster, West Coker The Somerset School of Performing Arts (for 7 -18 years) & now also the NEW MINI SSPA (for 4 -6 years) Acting, Stage Dance, Singing, Voice Production, Microphone, Recording & Audition Technique for boys & girls from 4-19 years Lots of exciting performance opportunities, lots of fun! Royal Academy of Dance Ballet, Pre School & Adult Ballet, Street Dance, Hip Hop, Commercial Dance Classes Acro, Lyrical, Contemporary Elite Beats Performance Squads, Toddler Dance, 5 RDC Hip Hop Competition Crews & Training Academy NEW Exciting Acrobatic Arts Dance For more information on all of our classes please call 01935 863865 or email helenlaxtondance@aol.co.uk or visit www.thesomersetschoolofperformingarts.comwww.helenlaxtonschoolofdancing.com or find us on Facebook Classes now held at West Coker Village Hall
Forty-five pupils were entered at Grades 2-4 and Grades 7-8 and Intermediate Foundation levels. All of the pupils worked extremely hard having made great progress and they have been rewarded with Royal Academy of Dance certificates and medals.
“Not all of our pupils will continue into a career in dance or performing arts, but all of our pupils will benefit so much from training with us, the confidence, the camaraderie, the fun and excitement will last a lifetime!”
PUPILS at the Yeovil-based Helen Laxton School of Dance have recently excelled in their Royal Academy of Dance ballet examinations and gained a 100 per cent pass rate.
Helen said: “Our new exciting term commences on Sunday, September 11. We have lots of dance classes on offer including Ballet, Street Dance, Hip Hop, Tap, Acrobatic Arts, Lyrical, Repertoire, Commercial, Elite Beat Performance Squads, Toddler & Pre School Dance and Adult Ballet. We take boys and girls from 15 months of age.
Regular building surveys are carried out at all Somerset schools to monitor the conditions of the buildings. A recent survey was carried out two weeks ago on the Milford Junior School site with the findings received last week. The report established there are concerns with the structure of the school building.
“We have worked very hard to ensure all children will receive face to face teaching in school environments with their own teachers and support staff as well as specialist SEN support, while we work, at pace, with the DfE and Somerset County Council to create a new temporary school, complete with hall and playing areas, to be ready by the end of the autumn term.
“All our staff are ready to support the children and ensure they are comfortable with the arrangements we have made.”
“We will continue to work with the school and local community over the coming weeks to ensure all transitions
PARENTS and carers of children who attend Milford Junior School in Yeovil were told in the final week of the summer holiday that the school building will need to shut indefinitely after concerns were raised during a recent survey.
Milford pre-school is not affected and will continue to operate as normal.
Staff will support the children during these difficult times
THE headteacher of Milford Junior School, Claire Laverty, has said that staff will do all they can to support pupils.
to schools are managed as seamlessly and carefully as possible. We are sorry for the disruption this will cause to our children and their families, but the safety and the wellbeing of our pupils and staff has driven the decisions we have had to make over a very short space of time.”
Again, due to these structural
assessments, children at Milford Infant School will also return to face-to-face education slightly later than planned. All children are expected to return from Monday, September 12. If able to reopen the Infant School building sooner, the school will do so and notify parents accordingly.FromMonday, September 5, Milford Infant School children were able to access educational provision via online learning - similar to during the Covid pandemic.
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Due to these circumstances, and in order to give staff further time to adapt and plan, children will return to face-toface education slightly later than planned. All Milford Junior School children will return from Monday, September 12, and education provision will be delivered via
“While 400 children won’t be able to enter their normal school building next week, alternative educational provision has been put in place and every one of the pupils will return to face-to-face learning in a classroom, albeit in a different location, from Monday, September 12 – quite a feat! I’d also like to thank our neighbouring schools who have stepped forward so diligently to offer their support in this challenging time.”
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A joint statement from Huish Academy Trust chief executive officer Pauline Price and chairman of trustees Jackie Bachrach said: “Milford Junior School joined the Huish Academy Trust in 2019 and since then, the Trust has worked tirelessly with school staff to ensure our children have the best educational environment that we can “Safetyprovide.hasalways been our primary concern and has long been a key priority.
“We know that the children have suffered during the last couple of years which is why we have worked hard to provide face to face teaching from Monday, September 12,” she said.
alternative nearby school sites.
From September 1, children were able to access educational provision via online learning.CllrTessa Munt, executive lead for children’s services at Somerset County Council, said: “The safety of children and staff always take precedence. I’d like to thank the school staff, our DfE partners and county council staff who moved so quickly after receiving news that there were health and safety building concerns at Milford Junior School.
Safety of children and staff always take precedence as school building is closed
As a precautionary measure only, further and more detailed checks and inspections are taking place at Milford Infants School - although no concerns are evident from the initial findings of its most recent survey which took place at the beginning of the summer holiday.
Wendy Chant, head of Milford Infants School, said: “We are disappointed that our start to the academic year has been postponed but the safety of our children and staff is paramount.”
In the best interests of pupils and staff, the Milford Junior School building has therefore closed with immediate effect with alternative education provision being put in place for staff and over 400 children.TheHuish Academy Trust, Department for Education and Somerset County Council are doing everything within their powers to establish a temporary building solution which ensures the children can be brought back together on one site as soon as possible.
Due to these concerns, we made an application for a new school build to the DfE in April, and we are hopeful that this will move forward quickly. Following a visit to survey the structure by further specialist DfE structural engineers, a decision was made not to open the site to staff or children.
achieve their hopes and dreams.
students achieved at least one A grade, again significantly bucking the downward national trend - against an estimated two per cent downturn - whilst the following subjects achieved a 100% pass rate: Art & Design, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Economics, English Literature, English Language, Environmental Science, Geography, History, Law, Mathematics, Photography, Physics, Psychology and Sociology.Highest performing students again raised the bar against the national average with 83 per cent of Yeovil College A Level students achieving A*-C grades. When comparing Yeovil College
YEOVIL College confirmed last month that for the seventh consecutive year students studying A-Levels achieved an impressive 100 per cent or 99 per cent pass rate.
Students achieve impressive pass rate once again
examination results to the previous prepandemic figures from 2018-19, which was effectively the last time students sat a full set of examinations, the college saw an extraordinary increase in results, particularly with high grades, and twice as many students undertaking A Level examinations: 16 per cent positive increase in A*-A grades; 17 per cent positive increase in A*-B grades; and nine per cent positive increase in A*-C grades.
“They have had another difficult and disrupted year, as Covid was not finished with us. Even though we did not have a lockdown, the number of staff and students who caught Covid was higher than any previous year. Yet, these young people worked exceptionally hard and showed the resilience necessary to
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WADHAM School at Crewkerne was last month pleased to report outstanding achievements by its students in its A-levels and other Level Three qualifications this summer.
Every student who was holding an offer secured a place at university. The courses they will pursue are diverse from Nursing to Primary Education and Economics & Management to Criminology. Those students who are looking at alternative career paths also achieved fantastic grades.
Harri Isack, Wadham’s head of Sixth Form, said: “Our Sixth Formers have been on a physical, mental and emotional rollercoaster ride these last few“Throughoutyears. this time, they have worked together, supported each other and led by example. Thank you all for all that you have achieved. I wish them all so much success for their futures.”
Wadham’s incoming new headteacher, Richard Burgas, added: “Well done to all. As Wadham enters a new phase in its history, I will ensure that the Sixth Form continues to grow and develop.”
“Their achievements are all the more commendable given the disruption to their education since March 2020; they are a remarkable generation with the resilience to make a great impact in the world.”
Students from Wadham have the results they need to realise their dreams.
Wadham students gain results needed to realise their dreams
Matthew Gardner, headteacher, said: “We are immensely proud of all the work and achievements of our students.
“The whole staff team at Wadham has worked tirelessly to ensure students can move on to their next stage of learning or employment with confidence. We look forward to seeing what they will achieve in the future.”
English, Economics, Law, Photography and Art and Design achieved a 100 per cent attainment rate for A*-C grades, whilst 50 per cent of the student cohort achieved A*-B grades in Art, Business, Chemistry, Economics, English Language, English Literature, Environmental Science, Geography, History, Law, Mathematics, Photography and Psychology.
Over one third of entries have achieved A*-A high grades, and 40 per cent of
Mark Bolton, chief executive officer and principal at Yeovil College, said: “We are delighted to formally congratulate our students, who have yet again impressed us with their relentless drive
PHOTO: Some of Wadham School’s Sixth Form students celebrate A-Level success.
and ambition to achieve the very highest grades in both A-Level and vocational subjects.“Ourstudents have been consistently brilliant in applying themselves throughout this year and in completing their studies with care and precision, which has now provided them with the results they rightly deserve.
A SUMMARY of the Yeovil College A Level results 2022: • 100 per cent or 99 per cent A-Level pass rate for the seventh consecutive year. • 83 per cent of students achieved A*-C grades. • 28 per cent of students achieved A*-A grades. • 40 per cent of students achieved at least one A grade. • One third of entries achieved straight A*-A grades.
Students are heading for their first-choice universities
It was the first full examination year for linear A-Levels and students had
West of England, Exeter University, Bournemouth University, University of Southampton, Coventry University, University of Winchester, University of Plymouth, University of Reading, University Campus of Football Business in Wembley to as far as the University of York.Popular university progression subjects chosen by Yeovil College students this year include Biomedicine, Psychology, Criminology, Business, Marketing, Journalism, Law, Sports Management,
“The vast majority of students have achieved the grades they require to progress to their intended destinations, including Russell Group universities. We wish them every success for their onward journeys.”
The college’s local and partner universities have also been favoured this year, helping to retain the next generation of academic talent and future workers within the South West. University destinations include the University of Oxford, University of The
contended with a disrupted period of teaching and learning.
Ashley MacLauchlan, formerly of Westfield Academy, achieved A*, A*, A* and A in Maths, Chemistry, Biology and Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) and secured a place at the University of Oxford where he will study Medicine.
For Yeovil College students, this year saw a significantly increased student cohort with more students sitting three A-Level subjects and an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) than ever before. In fact, more than double the numbers in 2018-2019 - the last fully examined year before the pandemic.
For students sitting the 2022 A-Levels, this was the first time they had sat a national examination due to the pandemic.
Matt Holmes, head of Yeovil College’s Kingston Sixth Form, said: “This has been an extremely challenging year, but our students have gained impressive grades against a background of undertaking full examinations for the very first time.
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“I have loved life at Yeovil College and have met many friends, who will be friends for life,” he said.” I have enjoyed the benefit of the new Health, Education and Science Centre, which has made a positive impact on my teaching and learning.”
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YEOVIL College and its Kingston Sixth Form Centre were celebrating extraordinary results again last month - despite the national downturn in A-Level results.
THE vast majority of Yeovil College students have secured their first-choice destination and university choices, including prestigious Russell Group universities, which will enable them to pursue their chosen careers.
individually achieving their potential, with extensive pastoral support and personalised guidance from the whole staff team at Westfield Academy.
STUDENTS and staff at Westfield Academy in Yeovil were celebrating last month an excellent set of results across their hard-earned GCSE, BTEC and NCFE qualifications.
Amongst the enormous personal and academic challenges of the global pandemic, the students achieved great progress, both as individuals and as a yearTheygroup.displayed resilience and engagement during the periods of home learning, whilst accessing the lesson-bylesson teacher live support and guidance. These students met the challenge of the return to in-school education, embracing once again the face-to-face high quality teaching and learning provided through the complex national changes and adaptations to their qualifications.
“Our motto, ‘Seeing the qualities in every child’, means a focus on all children
Simon Dallimore, headteacher, said: “These results are the culmination of five years of hard work by students and staff.
Seeing qualities in every child comes to the fore at Westfield
“We celebrate and congratulate each and every student at our school and look forward to hearing where their next steps in their learning journey lead.”
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STUDENTS, staff, families and the governors of Preston School in Yeovil were celebrating last month an amazing set of record-breaking GCSE results!
mature and develop so that they have the personal, social and professional skills to go on and do anything in the world that they want to do, alongside growing their learning skills to succeed academically.
“Unsurprisingly our Class of 2022 has done both superbly and we are incredibly proud of the young people that they are and the exam grades that they have gained.“There are some amazing performances from students in terms of the academic progress that they have made since they joinedPrestonus.”
The Class of 2022 at Preston School has done superbly well in diff icult times
School principal, Gregg Morrison, said: “We are delighted with
In fact, they are the best GCSE outcomes the school has produced since GCSE exams were reformed!
A school spokesman said: “The Preston School Class of 2022 is an amazing collection of young people.
“Beinglife.a student at Preston is about more than just exam results: it is about the experiences, knowledge and skills that you gain in order to go out and be a fantastic and ambitious person in the world. I know that our students leave with those things in abundance, as well as good academic qualifications.”
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Whilst this demonstrates the excellent progress the school has made, the most
“It is difficult enough being a 15 and 16-year-old young person in the world that we live in today, without having to cope with a global pandemic that takes away so many things from them that they were looking forward to, and entitled to, over the last few years.
pleasing element is that this means individual students have achieved great outcomes, which will open many doors for them in the future.
this year’s GCSE results and so very proud of the children who have coped so well in incredibly testing conditions. We are pleased that so many of our students will once again now go on to study the course of their choice in the next stage of their
The school saw huge increases in the numbers of students making great academic progress and headline measures have improved massively since the last set of grades determined by exams in 2019.
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“This year the academy has achieved some of its strongest results yet, with excellent progress achieved in many subjects including Spanish, maths, business, photography and the arts,” said a Stanchester spokesman.
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Stanchester achieves some of its strongest results ever
Buckler's Mead's Class of 2022 celebrate outstanding results
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Headteacher Mark Lawrence said: “Buckler’s Mead Academy continues to go from strength to strength and this set of GCSE results are proof the Academy is providing an excellent education for its students.“There are a huge number of individual
STAFF and students at Buckler’s Mead Academy in Yeovil have been celebrating outstanding GCSE results. Since the change of leadership at the Academy in 2019, this has been the first set of GCSE results where students have been able to demonstrate their abilities in the exam hall, and the results show significant improvements across the wholeThereAcademy.arerecord breaking results in a number of subject areas, including in English, Maths and Science. Results in these subject areas are the best they have been since the introduction of reformed GCSEs, with Maths in particular showing a big improvement on previous years.
“As headteacher I couldn’t be more proud of the staff and students for what they have achieved following the significant disruption in the last few years. I wish all students all the best for their futures and look forward to hearing of their successes as they move forward.”
Top performers this year include Jessica Pitman, Merve Sen, Jennifer Morgan, Zoe Brown, and Dominic Budd. All of whom gained an impressive collection of 7, 8 and 9 grades. As well as these individuals, there was cause for celebrations for so many students who now have the opportunity to go on to the next steps in their education and build successful and happy futures.
PHOTOS: Taken by Yeovil Press photographer Christine Jones.
success stories in terms of both progress and attainment, demonstrating the hard work, commitment and resilience this year group have shown.
“Their grades reflect the effort they have put in and they can be proud that they have achieved these, despite the challenges they faced. They can now
She described her time at Yeovil College as “brilliant” with excellent “support, guidance and motivation from the teaching team.”
GCSE results was a "day of redemption" for students at Yeovil College
• 96 per cent pass rate in English and Maths for all ages.
continue their education journey, either here or elsewhere, knowing they have the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed and everyone at Wadham is very proud of them.”
YEOVIL College announced positive GCSE results following a return to students sitting full examinations for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
When compared to the last time that full examinations were taken prior to the pandemic in 2018-19, Yeovil College maintained a pass rate of the same level for adults and 16-18-year-olds sitting both GCSE Maths and English.
Wadham students have shown resilience, determination and good humour
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As well as celebrating those who achieved exceptionally high grades, all of the Wadham students had to deal with enormous pressures in what was a very unsettling time. This year group had interruptions to their learning in
• 83 per cent achievement rate for adults achieving a grade 4 or above cohort.•
Yeovil College is proud to report the following GCSE results highlights:
• 96 per cent pass rate in English for 18-18 year olds, which is a 10% increase on the last time full examinations were taken.
each of the three years they had been at Wadham, from lockdowns and the impact of Covid-19 on themselves and theirMatthewteachers. Gardiner, who was headteacher when the students took their exams, said: “These young people showed resilience, determination and good humour, throughout the last three years.“This last academic year has been
takes to “Studentsachieve.who have achieved with us today will be thanking the staff who supported them through this last year. I am particularly proud of our learners who have persevered in order to achieve their GCSE grades and I am also grateful to my team of English and Maths lecturers who have supported learners tirelessly throughout this academic year.”
Bethany Lister, 19, received both her GCSE Maths and English results, achieving a 4 in both, which has allowed her to secure her dream of going to university to study social science.
worse for Covid, as our infection rates went up, particularly amongst staff, as restrictions were removed at a national level. However, these young people kept going, showing true determination and grit.
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The college achieved a pass rate of 100 per cent for English and Maths and 96 per cent pass rate for all ages. GCSE English continued to be a strong hold for adults with 83 per cent of entries achieving a grade four or above, the equivalent to an old grade C.
• 100 per cent pass rate in English and Maths for adult learners.
WADHAM School at Crewkerne was delighted to celebrate with its students on publication of the results of their GCSE and other qualifications this summer.
96 per cent pass rate in Maths for 18-18 year olds, which is a 10% increase on the last time full examinations were taken.
The new Wadham headteacher, Richard Burgas, said: “I am determined to build upon these results, so that Wadham, as it enters its second 50 years, continues to flourish.”
other institutions continued. This year, the college again exceeded the national benchmark for GCSE English high grades, described by the Government’s National Achievement Rates tables in (NARTS), and remained in line with 16-18 GCSE Maths high grades.
• High grades (9-4) in GCSE English continues to be above the national average for 16-18 year olds (last published NARTS).
• High grades (9-4) in GCSE Maths remains in line with the national average for 16-18 year olds (last published NARTS).•Highest grade was a 9 (A* equivalent).Matthew Wilkinson, curriculum area manager, said: “Following two years of GCSE exam uncertainty, today is a day of redemption for learners who received low Teacher Assessed Grades during the pandemic to prove that they have what it
The strong trend of the college outperforming the vast majority of
“Mikedetermined.mytutor was always extremely patient and also very flexible - when I got a full time job a few months ago we moved to online evening learning,” added Szy. “That made me want to succeed even more and I started working really hard doing test papers and extra work.”
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The charity offers maths and English functional skills to young people aged 16-25 who did not have exam success the first time round. It is extremely proud of its young learners who have passed in total 132 modules in English and Maths this year. Twenty-four young people have achieved a full qualification at level 2, GCSE equivalent, maths or English.
Mr Cheney was a highly-regarded rural studies teacher at Buckler’s Mead and he was warmly welcomed by his former students.Hestudied and worked at the Royal Horticultural Society at Bisley and taught at Grass Royal School before creating wonderful gardens at Buckler’s Mead which were celebrated and enjoyed by so many.Former student Steve Furneaux said: “Cheers to you Mr Cheney for making such a positive impact on our impressionable lives and we look forward to seeing you at our reunion next July.”
Front row (from left) Karen O’Brien (née Earl), Anne Wheeler (née Hutchinson), Heather Noyce (née Pollard), Sara Grit (née
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“I couldn’t believe it when I got the email to say I had passed,” said Szy. “This is genuinely going to open so many doors for me. It is absolutely wonderful. I’m so happy!”Szyrecently started as a support worker for Discovery and Dimensions working with autistic people. The pass means he will be enrolling onto a college degree course in social care through his work. “Without the maths qualification that would be impossible,” he said. “It was the
One very happy learner was 22-year-old Szy Luszczynski from Yeovil who did not get his maths GCSE when he was at school, but has just passed his Pearson’s Level 2 maths qualification.
THE Rendezvous Youth Charity’s learning project has been celebrating more exam success alongside other young people across Somerset.
Pictured in the main group photo are as follows: Back row (from left) Ken Sealey, Steven Furneaux, Geoffrey Parker, Brian Ashton, Michael O’Brien, Terry Hutchings, Alan Sturgess, Stephen Drury, David Pitman, Marianne Orwin Twissel, Allison Jarman (née King), Richard Purchase.Middlerow (from left) Gill Siviter (née Smith), Pam Summerskill (née Keys), Ruth Lodge, Pauline Wheeler, Mick Ward, Clive Barlow. Nigel Andrews.
Rendezvous welcomes any young person who hasn’t managed to get their maths or English this year, or any time, to contact them.They will be matched with a volunteer tutor to work one to one, face to face in Sherborne or Yeovil. They need to be prepared to come each week and do homework. But they will be supported in a pressure free and kind environment. They will take the exam when they are ready.
If they are aged 16-25 and not in education then it will be free, and if they are 14-16 Rendezvous may still be able to help though there maybe some charges.
Szy added: “I would say to anyone if you’re ready to help yourself Rendezvous tutors will help you.”
fact that it was face to face and one to one that attracted me and that it was free for mySzy,age.”who is a care leaver, came to Rendezvous in Yeovil last year after seeing a leaflet in his accommodation. He has never found maths easy, but he got on well with Mike, his maths tutor, and became really
“This is hugely significant to those young people we help,” said Julie Bartle, learning manager with The Rendezvous who has been running the project for six years. “It means even if they left school without their maths or English, they can leave that behind them and move on positively to college or apprenticeships and take their next steps in life.”
Legendary teacher Dick Cheney joins his former students for a pint
THE Class of ’73 from Buckler’s Mead School in Yeovil held a reunion at The Bell pub this summer where they were joined by 96-year-old Dick “Pops” Cheney.
AndBird).seated (front centre) legendary rural studies teacher Dick Cheney.
PHOTOS: Many thanks to Nigel Andrews for these photos.
Rendezvous helps to open doors for young people with exam successes
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Roll up! Roll up! The Circus comes to the Octagon Theatre
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THE Castaway Theatre Group held a fabulous summer school at the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil where youngsters learnt song, dance and drama during just one week in August. The successful week culminated in a short production entitled The Circus Comes to Town and the 20-minute show was full of fun, music and colour and was greatly enjoyed by an audience of family andCast:friends.Headteacher – Shane Boyd; Tony – Oliver Wilshaw; Sarah – Dakota-Skye Paz; Jonny – Sam Barron; Nina – Yasmin Brice; Ring Master – Keira Boyd. Ensemble – Amelia Marvin, Amelia Wellman, Amy Margrett, Ashley Comer, Chloe Boyd,
Chloe Masterman, Corinne Ledbury, Dolly Lupi-Lawrence; Eleanor Brown, Elizabeth Clayton, Emily Barron, Erin Evans, Evie Colborne-Langley, Hannah Young, Heidi Isaac, Henry Clayton, Huey-Jay Paz, Iris Chant, Izzy Stacpoole, Isla Groves, Isla-Meadow Rowswell, Isla Saunders, Jacob Parsons, Joseph Stephens, Lily-Mabel McAdorey, Matilda Reeves, Meg Pike, Nieve Maskew, Oliver Wilshaw, Rowan Cox and Thea Margrett.
With special thanks to Lynn Lee Brown, Tammie Lloyd, Andrea MacLauchlan, Louise Cannon, Kirsty Beaumont, Isabella McKenzie, Mia French and the Octagon Theatre’s technical team.
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Fakwes Somerset Carnival Circuit –Bridgwater (November 5); Highbridge & Burnham (November 7); Weston-superMare (November 11); North Petherton (November 12); Shepton Mallet (November 16); Wells (November 18); and Glastonbury (November 19).
Pilots operating out of airfields including Bristol Airport and RNAS Yeovilton had recently reported being targeted by a laser while flying over the Martock area.
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THE amazing award-winning Ilminster-based Harlequin Carnival Club has been celebrating 50 years of entertaining the crowds.
“Harlequin Carnival Club has a 50year history of producing Carnival carts and we are one of the most successful Carnival clubs in South Somerset.
On the evening of Sunday, August 14, a laser was shone into the cockpit of a
Harlequin will be back on the road on Saturday, September 24, with the Wellington Carnival before the South Somerset circuit comes to Ilminster on Saturday, October 1, followed by Chard on Saturday, October 8, and concluding at Taunton on Saturday, October 15. All eyes will then fall on the Guy
FARMING through the ages was brought to life at a fantastic event which was held on the outskirts of Ilminster over the weekend of August 20-21.
Celebrating the wonderful world of farming in South Somerset
The man was released under investigation pending further enquiries.
Harlequin is on the lookout for new members to join its ranks.
“Get in touch if you are interested in becoming a member or even just find out a bit more. We can’t wait to hear from you.”Anyone interested please email info@ harlequin-carnivalclub.co.uk or go online to www.harlequin-carnivalclub.co.uk or find the club’s social media page on Facebook.
The event was also blessed with glorious weather although the prolonged dry spell had certainly made ploughing extra difficult.
A police spokesman said: “They soon witnessed a separate incident of a laser being directed at a plane from an address in the village and arrested a man on suspicion of shining/ directing a laser beam towards an aircraft.”
Harlequin members joined together last month to mark the club’s 50 years in Carnival and they are now looking forward to getting back into action after the last couple of years have been wiped out because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The club has become one of the best in the county and is often challenging the “big guns” from Bridgwater for top county honours.
to enjoy tractors and machinery, harvesting and threshing, steam and working areas, heavy horses, stationary engines and rural crafts galore.
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POLICE investigating reports of a laser being shined at aircraft arrested a 51-year-old man in a village near Yeovil.
Club chairman Steve Dawe said: “This year has brought everybody back together again after two years of not being able to do what we love!”
The long-established Yesterday’s Farming event celebrated the world of agriculture and thousands of people descended on the site at Whitelackington
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“With Carnival 2022 just around the corner we are looking for new members to come and join in the fun,” said Steve.
Harlequin Carnival Club is 50 not out
Man arrested for shining laser beam at aircraft
commercial airline flying into Bristol prompting officers to deploy to Martock to see if they could identify the offender.
Charity offers free neutering of cats and kittens during September
PHOTO: Eric Turner shows off his amazing onions. Photo – Christine Jones.
It was wonderful to see Horton village hall packed with an abundance of exhibits of
The Yeovil and District Branch of Cats Protection is urging cat owners to get their pets snipped or spayed as soon as possible as it is the most effective way of controlling numbers of unwanted cats and kittens.
craft for the show on August 13. And although exhibit numbers might have been a bit down on previous years, organisers were still thrilled to see the show back up and running.
Population control is vital as cats are prolific breeders. One un-neutered female cat could produce up to 18 kittens a year or 20,000 descendants over five years. Owners who do not have their cats neutered may unwittingly be contributing to more cats being abandoned in the future.Please do the responsible thing and get your cats neutered.
The branch works hard to try and find loving homes for every feline that comes into its care but one of the charity’s main
Most of the Yeovil vets are taking part in the scheme and the RSPCA is funding free micro-chipping at the time the cat is neutered.Thosewishing to get their cats neutered must show proof of benefits received and phone Jan on 01935-507009. Jan will then explain which vets to contact. Please note that this offer is only for the month of September.
Yeovil & District Branch Registered Charity No 203644 FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER ONLY For people in the BA20 —BA22 TA10—TA20 Who are on benefits (proof needed) SnipFREE&Spayalso RSPCA is funding free Micro Chip FOR DETAILS PHONE JAN ON 01935 507009 Yeovil & District Branch Registered Charity No 203644 FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER ONLY For people in the BA20 —BA22 & TA10— TA20 Who are on benefits (proof needed) FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER ONLY For people in the BA20-BA22 & TA10-TA20 area who are on benefits (proof needed) FREE SNIP AND SPAY ALSO RSPCA IS FUNDING FREE MICRO CHIP FOR DETAILS CONTACT JAN ON 01935 507009
Neutering offers many solid benefits to cats and owners alike. A neutered cat is less likely to spray, less likely to roam and also less likely to fight. Neutering also helps guard against disease as fighting cats are more at risk of life-threatening diseases that can be transmitted through biting.Spaying a female cat reduces the chances of mammary cancer or a serious uterine condition that can cause death.
Horton Flower Show makes a triumphant return
THE 57th Horton Flower Show returned to the village for the first time since 2019 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
flowers, fruit, vegetables, cooking and
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aims is to encourage the neutering of cats and kittens to ensure there will be fewer unwanted felines in the future.
THE Yeovil and District Branch of Cats Protection – which covers a large area of South Somerset - is funding the free neutering of cats and kittens for owners on any sort of benefit or low income.
watches appeal for the new unit, please contact Maggie on 01963-250108 or Yeovil District Hospital on 01935383020.Meanwhile,
There will also be live music with Paul Lewis – AKA Guitarist on Wheels – and the Elvis tribute act Stuart Horne.
Fundraising nears the £2.5m mark for hospital's new breast cancer unit
A Yeovil Hospital Charity spokesman said: “Once more the charity reaches out to the communities of South Somerset and North Dorset who have been so supportive of the appeal to help reach the target to build this much needed unit at Yeovil Hospital.”
The event is being held on October 29 from 7pm and tickets cost £15 and will include a glass and drinks tokens.
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THE banners are up outside Yeovil District Hospital announcing the new Breast Cancer Unit is coming soon.
The total now stands at over £2,200,000, but the appeal has to reach a target of £2,500,000.
a29thOctober2022 tTheQuicksilver Mail,Yeovil from7pm In aid of School in a Bag and Yeovil Hospital Charity In aid of School in a Bag and Yeovil Hospital Charity HORNESTUARTTRIBUTE PAULONGUITARISTWHEELSLEWIS MUSIC BY Tickets £15 Includes a glass and drink tokens (extra tokens £3) email: dnaevents18@gmail.com or Tel: 07805 976076 HORNESTUART Making a difference for patients We need you now more than ever... Your donation could help us to purchase more equipment and support our staff During this CORONAVIRUS emergency, our staff need all the help they can get. You can help by Emailwww.justgiving.com/yeovilhospitaldonating:orfundraising@ydh.nhs.ukformoreinfo SUPPORT OUR NHS STAFF
So the appeal for unwanted and broken jewellery and watches continues.
If you feel you could support the unwanted and broken jewellery and
tickets are selling fast for the Gin & More charity night being held at the Quicksilver Mail and being hosted by Darren and Anna Shutler.
Take a look at the advert on this page for more details.
Songs from the original film musical
THE Castaway Theatre Group flew the flag for Yeovil during a wonderful performance at the Videopolis Theatre at Disneyland Paris.
said Steve. “Congratulations to all the children plus the Castaways team who work so hard throughout the year to provide such great opportunities for these talented young people.”
Following on from their performance at the Videopolis, the Castaways then took part in a parade through the streets of Disneyland ahead of the main daily afternoon parade of Disney characters. The performers were as follows: Angelique Boxall, Charlie Wheeler,
It was a return visit to Disneyland for Castaways having performed there once before in 2017.
This time the young stage performers wowed the audience on August 29 with a medley of songs and dances from the musical Mary Poppins.
Charlotte Caine, Chloe Allonby, DakotaSkye Paz, Ebony Knibbs, Eleanor Brown, Eleanor Dawkins, Finlay Gudge, Freddy Allonby,Freya Manley, Georgia Young, Grace Stafford, Hannah Young, Harry Caddy, Isabella McKenzie, Isabella Pincombe, Isla Meadow Rowswell, Jacob Parsons, Joshua Beaumont, Lucy Jenkins, Lydia Church, Mia French, Molly Beaumont, Nieve Maskew, Reagan Hyde, Ruby Allonby, Sam Barron and Tobias Clifton. PHOTOS: Christine Jones.
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Yeovil Press editor Steve Sowden and photographer Christine Jones travelled with Castaways to Disneyland for the amazing experience.
were recreated at Disneyland with Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Chim Chim Cher-ee, Step in Time and Let’s Go Fly a Kite, plus The Place Where Lost Things Go from the modern Mary Poppins Returns movie.
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“It was a fantastic few days away and the Castaways really did Yeovil proud,”
Where Dreams Come True.....
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Moving house is said to be one of the top 5 most stressful life events (according to Google) but for qualifying emergency service personnel, hopefully this offer makes the journey ahead a little brighter!
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To receive this discount, the home owner must be an emergency services employee (in joint applications just one person must be employed to be eligible).
Please contact Joanna Shortland in our Yeovil office on 01935 426047 to discuss further and to instruct her directly to receive the discount.
NB: Evidence of employment will be required upon instruction.
We offer this discount as a token of appreciation to our NHS, Fire Services, Police, RNLI, HM Coastguard and Mountain Rescue and Armed Forces employees.
A beloved husband of the late Betty. A much loved brother, uncle and great uncle. Funeral service will take place on Monday, September 19, 2022, at 12.40pm at Yeovil Crematorium. Family flowers only please. Donations in memory of Ken for the RNLI may be sent c/o A. J. Wakely & Sons, 33 Sparrow Road, Yeovil, BA21 4BT or online at www.ajwakely.com.
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also hopefully be working closely with local funeral directors on the sad event of death announcements and possible obituary reports.
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part and parcel of any local newspaper and I’m delighted to offer this service to the people of Yeovil and surrounding area.“The Yeovil Press now has a print-run of 5,000 copies a month and these are distributed at various outlets within the Yeovil area where people can pick them up.”Lineage
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STEVENS – KENNETH (Ken): Ken, of Yeovil, passed away peacefully in Yeovil District Hospital on August 28, 2022, aged 98 years.
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BARNETT – ALAN JOHN: Alan passed away peacefully at Cookson’s Court, Yeovil, aged 99 years. A much loved Dad, Grandad and Great Grandad who will be missed by all who knew and loved him. The funeral will be held at Yeovil Crematorium on Monday, September 19, 2022, at 12noon. Donations in memory of Alan are invited for St Margaret’s Hospice and may be sent care of Eason Funeral Services on 01935-422883 or made at the funeral service.
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ROBUS – PAULINE: Many happy returns for your Birthday on September 16. Love from all your friends and family.
WHITE – PATRICIA: Many happy returns for your Birthday on September 23. Love and best wishes from all your family and friends.
LLOYD – VINI: Many happy returns for your Birthday on September 21. Love and best wishes from all your friends at the Castaway Theatre Group.
CARPENTER – MICHELINE: Best wishes for your Birthday on September 19. Love and best wishes from all your family and friends. VEIGA – LISA: Many happy returns for your Birthday on September 19. Love and best wishes from your pals of Preston School’s Class of ’87!
CARPENTER – STEVE: Congratulations for your Birthday on September 24. Best wishes from your family and friends.
HARPER – HEATHER: Here’s wishing you a fantastic Birthday on September 10. Love and best wishes from all your footie-mad friends at Yeovil Town FC!
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The afternoons begin with a speaker and this is followed by tea and cake.
non-judgemental questions such as, ‘Why do you think that might be the case?’ and ‘Would you be happy to tell me more about that?’
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4: Know where to get help: The Stay Alive mobile app is a good resource for those at risk of suicide and people who are worried about someone else. It offers useful information about services and support in your local area, along with national helplines and online resources.Samaritans provide urgent support around the clock, every single day of the year, on 116 123. Or, if someone doesn’t feel able to pick up the phone, they can have a text conversation by texting SHOUT to 85258.
5: Be kind to yourself: Supporting someone who is having suicidal thoughts can quickly take its toll on your own mental health.
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This month the speaker will be Paul Taylor who will be speaking about A Cycle Race in Africa.
Break the silence and end the stigmaWorld Suicide Prevention Day
Steve Hart, the Yeovil Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Debt Centre manager, said: “More than one in three of the people who approach CAP for help (36%) have attempted or considered suicide as a way out of debt. If you or someone you know is struggling with finances, CAP is on hand to offer free practical, emotional and holistic support.”
we would all welcome a future with hope, the whole passage reminds us that these plans are revealed as part of a relationship. A true Christian faith looks much less like a religion but is a relationship. A relationship with God through Jesus who knows what is
I am thankful that it wasn’t too serious for me – extreme tiredness, and hay fever type symptoms – and that it only lasted five days, but it was enough to significantly disrupt our plans for our time together.
We are also now coming under the leadership of a new Prime Minister, Liz Truss. It is hard for any of us to plan with any certainty for the future. But the truth is, it has always been hard to make plans with any certainty.Inthe
heart.” (Jeremiah 29: 11-13, NRSVA).
This is a popular passage of scripture, particularly for those facing a crossroads or looking to the future and seeking to make plans, but the quote often stops after the word hope.While
Evidence suggests that providing support services that give people the opportunity to talk about mental health actively helps move people away from suicidal thoughts.
I was reminded, amid the frustration, that whoever we are and whatever we do the plans we make are often disrupted. I’m sure we have all regularly experienced the unpredictable elements of life disrupting our plans.September signals the start of a new academic year. It is a time for new beginnings and for making plans. This year, while much of
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Old Testament book of the prophet Jeremiah we find the following words: “For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your
THE Church Mice Toddler Group meets at Holy Trinity Church and Community Centre, Lysander Road, Yeovil, every Wednesday in term time between 9.30am and 11.30am.
THE September monthly tea party at the Holy Trinity Church and Community Centre in Lysander Road, Yeovil, will take place on Wednesday, September 21, at 2.30pm. This event is open to anyone from the area.
PEOPLE up and down the country will be observing World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10.
By starting the conversation, providing support and directing help to those who need it, we can help bring hope and save lives. So how can we as individuals play a part in bringing about this change? The Christians Against Poverty Debt Centre in Yeovil has followed some advice from mind.org.uk, where you can also find additional support.
Knowing someone close to you is contemplating suicide can be distressing. If the upset stays with you, it’s important to recognise you need support, too. As you show compassion and encourage others to reach out and ask for help, remember to have compassion for yourself in the process.
Visit capuk.org to find out more or call 0800 328 0006.
“When you search for me, you will find me” is a promise that God makes and it is available to everyone. Whether you choose to begin that search or not is entirely your choice, but it is my prayer that the plans you make this September will bring you a strong and lasting hope for the future.
AS I write this month I have not long returned from holiday. During my two weeks off – a week at home and a thoroughly enjoyable week in the New Forest with family – I was unfortunate enough to have a brief encounter with Covid-19.
1: Know the warning signs: For most people, talking to their loved ones about how they’ve been feeling is incredibly difficult. Knowing the warning signs means that you’re more equipped to start a conversation. Find out what kind of conversations, feelings and behaviours may indicate that someone may be thinking about suicide at tolessfeelinghowspaceattention.bytalkreallytellconcernedisbutfactors.suicide/warning-signs-risk-factors-protective-save.org/about-2:Startaconversation:Itsoundsobvious,wecanneverreallyknowwhatsomeonethinkingwithoutaskingthem.Ifyou’reaboutsomeonethenbehonestandthemthat,andaskthemhowtheyarefeeling.Letthemknowthattheycantoyouwithoutfeelingguiltyorashamed.3:Listen:MakeitclearthatyouarelisteninggivingthepersonwhoissharingyourfullDon’tinterrupt,andgivethemtheandtimetheyneedtoarticulateexactlytheyfeel.Someonesimplytalkingabouthowthey’recanprovidereliefandmakethemfeelisolated.Bemindfulthatyou’renotthereadviseorjudgethem.Aimtoaskopen,
touch. Send us your photos and news to yeovilpress@gmail.com We look forward to hearing from you. CALLING ALL CHURCHES IN THE YEOVIL AREA YEOVIL PRESS YOUR new local newspaper that covers YOUR local area CHURCH NEWS News from the churches in and around Yeovil
the uncertainty that was part of the pandemic seems to be in the past, we are facing ongoing uncertainty and disruption through the conflict between Russia and Ukraine alongside the increase in energy prices and inflation in Britain which is also concerning.
The sessions are informal and a variety of toys, games and crafts are available.
A healthy snack for children is also provided along with tea and coffee and biscuits for adults. Each session costs £2.
6: The relationship between money problems and suicide: Suicide is a complex issue, with many contributing factors. Money problems and their effects on mental health is often an overlooked issue.
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It is hard for any of us to plan with any certainty for the future
Rev Dan Crouch - vicar of Holy Trinity Church and Community Centre, Yeovil, and St Mary Magdalene Church, Barwick
ahead and wants to offer a future with hope.
Finishing touches are being made in rehearsals for the production which will run at the Octagon in Yeovil from October 11-15.There will be a matinee performance at 2.30pm on October 15, while all other performances will start at 7.30pm.
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production – the fun musical Legally Blonde.
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YEOVIL Amateur Operatic Society will be back on the stage of the Octagon Theatre next month with its latest
QUESTION TIME - THE ANSWERS
Legally Blonde and An Unexpected Man - coming soon to Yeovil stages
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Round One – Slogans: 1 – Tesco; 2 – Guinness; 3 – Burger King; 4 –Yorkshire Tea; 5 Kodak. Round Two – Premier League Football: 1 – Brian Deane and Sheffield United (two points); 2 – Eric Cantona; 3 – Petr Cech (Chelsea – 2005); 4 –Robert Huth, Ilkay Gundagon, Leroy Sane, Jens Lehmann, Andre Schurlle, Michael Ballack (six points); 5 – Ian RoundWright. Three – General Knowledge: 1 – Rum; 2 – 1912; 3 – Red, Blue, Yellow (three points); 4 Peru; 5 Orange Is the New Black. Round Four – Picture Round – Name the Actors: 1 – Orlando Bloom; 2 –Jeremy Irons; 3 – Emma Watson; 4 – Pete Postlethwaite; 5 – Kelly MacDonald.
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The story is based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of the same name. It tells the story of Elle Woods, a sorority girl who enrols at Harvard Law School to win back her exboyfriend Warner.
She discovers how her knowledge of the law can help others, and she successfully defends exercise queen Brooke Wyndham in a murder
Throughouttrial.the show, very few characters have faith in Elle, but she manages to surprise them when she defies expectations while staying true to
herself.Meanwhile, the Swan Theatre Company will be presenting The Unexpected Man at the Swan Theatre in Yeovil from September 19-24 at 7.45pm.
The story sees a man and a woman sit opposite each other in the detached intimacy of a train compartment on a journey from Paris to Frankfurt. He is a world-famous author, she carries his latest novel in her bag and ponders the
As both the woman and man ponder their situation in the compartment, they bring past events and philosophies up in separate monologues.
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Finally in the ending of the play, they speak conversationally, and in the last line of the show the woman calls the author by his name, revealing to him that she did indeed know who he was.
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dilemma of reading it in front of him.
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THE people of Yeovil and surrounding area united as one on August 14, 2019, to oppose proposals for the planned closure of the inpatient unit at St Margaret’s Hospice in the Thetown.Octagon Theatre was packed for a Public Information Event where hospice bosses tried to explain the reasoning behind the controversial proposals. The auditorium was full of emotion, concern, anger and disbelief that St Margaret’s would take away the inpatient unit at the hospice – the very core of the hospice - which has been a much-loved and cherished part of the Yeovil community ever since it was officially opened in 2004. Despite the opposition, the inpatient unit was still closed. This photo appeared in the September 2019 edition of Yeovil Press. Photo: Christine Jones.
MEMBERS of Motiv8 Productions donated a fantastic £1,000 towards Yeovil District Hospital’s Breast Cancer Unit Appeal. The money was raised through donations received by Motiv8 during its run of Starlight Express at the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil earlier in 2019. This photo appeared in the September 2019 edition of Yeovil Press.
IN this month’s Yeovil Press community newspaper we take a pictorial look back at some of what was featured in the corresponding September editions of 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. The September 2018 paper was Edition Number 2, the September 2019 paper was Edition Number 12, the September 2020 paper was Edition Number 24 and September 2021 was Edition Number 36. If you would ever like a back copy of the Yeovil Press please email us at yeovilpress@gmail.com . Past copies of the Yeovil Press are priced £5 which includes post and packaging.
THE Yeovil Allotments Association held its tenth annual show at Brimsmore Gardens in Yeovil on August 18, 2019. There were plenty of exhibits to be seen which had been put on display by some of the area’s green-fingered enthusiasts and town crier Bruce Trigger was also at the show and he had to plenty to shout about in support of the Yeovil Allotments Association. This photo appeared in the September 2019 edition of Yeovil Press. Photo: Christine Jones.
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THE Mayor of Yeovil, Cllr David Recardo, congratulated budding stage stars on a fantastic show – although they only had four days to rehearse. The Summer School held at the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil from August 20-24, 2018, was run by the ever-popular Castaway Theatre Group led by Lynn Lee Brown. The youngsters worked tirelessly over the week to learn lines, songs and dance to put on a 40-minute musical play entitled Tom’s Dream which had been written by Lynn especially for the summer school. This photo appeared in the September 2018 edition of Yeovil Press.
TheMatilda.Summer School ran from August 5-9, 2019, and saw children take part in auditions, learn songs, dances and lines and at the end of the week they performed a shortened version of the ever-popular Matilda show to an appreciative audience at the Westlands Yeovil entertainment venue. This photo appeared in the September 2019 edition of Yeovil Press. Photo: Christine Jones.
Photo: Christine Jones.
A TOTAL of £2,800 was presented to the South Somerset Mind organisation and a further £2,220 to St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice. The money was raised during a Snakebyte and Cider event at the pub at the top of Hendford Hill where party-goers danced and drank the night away with popular local band Snakebyte along with other singers Dan King and Jack Humphries. This photo appeared in the September 2018 edition of Yeovil Press and organisers Jane Helyar and her husband Ashley (centre) are pictured presenting cheques to representatives of St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice and South Somerset Mind. Photo: Christine Jones.
THE Castaway Theatre Group’s annual Summer School turned a group of fantastic young people into a bunch of “revolting children” – all in the name of the musical
POOR weather failed to dampen the spirits of truckers as the Wessex Truck Show rolled into the Yeovil Showground for another year. The sixth festival of trucks was another great success with vehicles of all shapes and sizes descending on the Showground site over the weekend of August 11-12, 2018. David Cross, one of the co-organisers of the Wessex Truck Show, is pictured at the Yeovil Showground site. This photo appeared in the September 2018 edition of Yeovil Press. Photo: Christine Jones.
CONCERT-GOERS at the Yeovil Showground were able to dance the weekend away at the Tribute Festival music extravaganza. Organisers could not have wished for better weather on August 24-25, 2019, for the festival which saw music lovers enjoy a wide variety of acts. Tribute acts covered musical greats such as a Pink, UB40, ACDC, Blondie Killers, Dire Straits, The Who, Elvis, Meat Loaf, Muse, The Wurzels and The Drifters. This photo appeared in the September 2019 edition of Yeovil Press.
INSPIRATIONAL round-the-world unicyclist Ed Pratt arrived back at Home Farm at Chilthorne Domer on July 27, 2018, following a monumental 20,000-mile adventure on one wheel which had taken three-and-a-half years to complete. His efforts had raised more than £300,000 for the School in a Bag charity which delivers educational equipment to poor and vulnerable children around the world. This photo appeared in the September 2018 edition of Yeovil Press.
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Photo: Christine Jones.
THE highly-talented Castaway Theatre Group put on a fantastic September Showcase at the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil of songs from stage and screen. The audience was enthralled on September 9, 2018, at watching a packed and varied programme with songs from musicals including My Fair Lady, The Lion King, The Greatest Showman, Les Miserables, Oklahoma, Annie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Hamilton, Newsies, The Little Mermaid and Billy Elliot. This photo appeared in the September 2018 edition of Yeovil Press. Photo: Christine Jones.
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THE first-ever Yeovil Pride march – celebrating the local LGBT community – took place on August 31, 2019, through the town centre. The march started at the Petters Way car park and went along Hendford, the High Street and Silver Street before culminating in a community picnic in the churchyard at St John’s Church. The event was supported by the Mayor of Yeovil, Cllr David Recardo, the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Mick Clark, and members of the emergency services as well as people from all walks of life. This photo appeared in the September 2019 edition of Yeovil Press. Photo: Submitted.
A FANTASTIC Yeovil Ukulele Festival at Haselbury Mill near Yeovil proved a huge success as hundreds of people gathered to enjoy the delightful sound of the four-stringed member of the lute family. The festival was held on September 9, 2018, and organised by the ever-popular and growing Yeovil Ukulele Festival. Ukulele players of all ages from across the region converged on Haselbury Mill to take part in festival – including pupils from Preston Primary School in Yeovil. This photo appeared in the September 2018 edition of Yeovil Press. Photo: Christine Jones.
THERE were celebrations within the Fleet Air Arm as Chief Petty Officer Andy Vanes, of RNAS Yeovilton, chalked-up an astonishing 50 years in the Royal Navy. Many past and present colleagues took to social media to congratulate Andy on his milestone achievement of 50 years with the Royal Navy acknowledgement of BZ – Bravo Zulu, a naval signal meaning “well done.” This photo appeared in the September 2020 edition of Yeovil Press.
CARE homes in Yeovil and Sherborne each had a crab apple tree planted in their gardens to mark the 100-year anniversary of a global volunteer movement. The Mayor of Sherborne, Cllr Anne Hall, attended a ceremony at Trinity Manor Care Home, Sherborne, and the Mayor of Yeovil, Cllr Evie PottsJones, attended a ceremony at Grovelands Care Home in Yeovil. The two homes received a tree to mark the centenary of Soroptimist International – a worldwide volunteer service organisation for women who work for peace. Cllr Potts-Jones is pictured at the tree planting ceremony at Grovelands. This photo appeared in the September 2021 edition of Yeovil ORGANISERSPress.of the LGBT+ Pride march and Press.editionthephotocontinued.thetheStreetandthroughfor2021,towninStCrowdsforthankedthroughcelebrationYeovileveryonetheirsupport.gatheredatJohn’sChurchyardthecentreoftheonAugust21,inreadinessaparadedowntheQuedamthenupMiddleandbacktochurchyardwherecelebrationsThisappearedinSeptember2021ofYeovil
Year 11 students across the country – including those at schools in the Yeovil and South Somerset area – were celebrating GCSE results. This photo was taken at Preston School in Yeovil on results day and appeared in the September 2021 edition of Yeovil Press.
YEOVIL College’s Kingston Sixth Form Centre were celebrating outstanding A-Level student results againdespite another disrupted year and changes to the exam Aprocess.cohort of students - which had more than doubled in size since 2020 – were the first group of students to complete linear A-Levels. This photo appeared in the September 2021 edition of Yeovil Press.
BEARDED hero Jason Waller (centre) is pictured with barber Khalis along with supporters Michelle Richardson, Kelly Dyer and Leeann Meek. He underwent the clippers and raised £1,410 for Macmillan Cancer Support as part of the Brave the Shave initiative. The beard shave took place at The Bell pub in Yeovil and overall more than £2,000 was raised for charity. This photo appeared in the September 2021 edition of Yeovil Press.
YEOVIL Rugby Club hosting some Party on the Pitch events during August 2020. Yeovil Press photographer Christine Jones went along to the club on August 29 to grab some pictures of the party-goers for the event which was headlined by popular band D-State. These pictures appeared in the September 2020 edition of Yeovil Press.
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APPRENTICES at Leonardo Helicopters in Yeovil restored a retired Lynx Mk7 to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the G-Lynx World Speed Record. The restored helicopter sits proudly on display at the Yeovil factory – the birthplace of the Lynx. It was back on August 11, 1986, that a Westland Lynx flew a 15km course across the Somerset Levels. Apprentices are pictured with their restored Lynx Mk7 at Leonardo Helicopters. This photo appeared in the September 2021 edition of Yeovil Press.
THIS was the scene at the Morrisons supermarket car park in Lysander Road, Yeovil, on the afternoon of Saturday, August 8, 2020, when a parked car caught on fire. This photo - courtesy of Sherborne Fire Station – appeared in the September 2020 edition of Yeovil Press.
Yeovil Golf Club’s 11-year-old Charlie Malcolm just missed out on winning when playing in only his second-ever 18hole competition. His score of 41 stableford points over two rounds on the club’s nine-hole Newton Course was a single point behind the competition winner, who just happened to be his one-handicap father James! This photo appeared in the September 2020 edition of Yeovil Press.
STUDENTS across the Yeovil area had to endure a whole host of emotions during the summer of 2020 with the results announced on their A-Level and GCSE exams, plus other educational qualifications, which were dramatically affected this year by the restrictions imposed following the Covid-19 lockdown. Pictured in the September 2020 edition of Yeovil Press are two students at Stanchester Academy at Stoke-sub-Hamdon congratulating each other – and trying to stick to the social distancing rules – on results day and their GCSE achievements.
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FORTHCOMING gig dates in and around Yeovil (please check beforehand with venue in case of any changes).
Saturday, September 17: Hang 11 will be performing live at the Hungry Horse (The Bell) on Preston Road, Yeovil, from 9pm.
Saturday, October 15: Bandit Music
Friday, September 23: Storm will be performing at the Conservative Club in Yeovil.
Saturday, October 1: D-State will be playing at The Armoury Inn in Yeovil from 9pm.
Saturday, December 31 (New Year’s Eve): D-State will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, September 17: King Fisher will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, October 22: John Springett will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, September 17: Princes No More will be performing at the Conservative Club in Yeovil.
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Other live music events taking place at larger venues such as the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil and the Westlands Yeovil venue are featured in our What’s On Guide on Pages 48-50.
Saturday, September 24: Pearl Essence will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, October 8: Moonshine Hillbillies will be playing at the Conservative Club in Yeovil.
Saturday, October 22: D-State will be playing at The Labour Club in Yeovil.
Saturday, October 29: Micro Light will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Event will be held at the Conservative Club in Yeovil.
Saturday, November 5: Garage Band will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, September 24: Loose Rock will be performing live at the Hungry Horse (The Bell) on Preston Road, Yeovil, from 9pm.
To add gig dates to the monthly Gig Guide – please email yeovilpress@gmail.com
Saturday, December 3: Road Star will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, September 10: Alfie Galpin will be performing at the Conservative Club in Yeovil.
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Saturday, October 8: Greg Agar – The Piano Man – will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, December 17: John Springett will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, November 26: Duane Conn will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, October 29: The Dabinetts will be playing live at The Beehive pub in Huish, Yeovil, from 9pm.
If you are a singer or a band or run a pub or local music venue and would like your gigs to feature in future editions of the Yeovil Press community newspaper –please get in touch.
Saturday, December 24 (Christmas Eve): Karaoke with Marcus at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
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GIG GUIDE
Friday, September 9: Karaoke with Marcus at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
WELCOME to the Yeovil Press Gig Guide which looks to promote live music events in and around the Yeovil area.
Saturday, September 10: Utter Chaos will be performing live at the Hungry Horse (The Bell) on Preston Road, Yeovil, from 9pm.
Saturday, September 17: Unknown Identity will be playing live at The Beehive pub in Huish, Yeovil, from 9pm.
Saturday, October 1: The Beehive pub in Huish, Yeovil, will be playing host to 9th Life from 9pm.
Saturday, October 1: Lost in Music will be playing at the Conservative Club in Yeovil.
Saturday, October 1: Not Like The Others will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, November 12: Jay will be playing live at The Beehive pub in Huish, Yeovil, from 9pm.
We look forward to hearing from you –drop us an email at yeovilpress@gmail. com . The next edition of the Yeovil Press is out on October 13-14– so please get in touch and your gig details will appear in the monthly guide until the date has passed.
Saturday, November 12: King Fisher will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, October 22: Jack Saunders and guest, Dave Woan, will be performing at the Conservative Club in Yeovil.
Saturday, November 19: Greg Agar –The Piano Man - will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, December 10: Greg Agar –The Piano Man - will be performing live at The Arrow pub on the Abbey Manor Park estate in Yeovil.
Saturday, December 3: Rock It Fuel will be playing live at The Beehive pub in Huish, Yeovil, from 9pm.
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NAME: Alan Harris DOB: September 22, 1971 INFORMATION: Sales executive My Top Ten: 1: The Tams, Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me 2: Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, Did You Ever 3: Rod Stewart, Maggie May/Reason to Believe 4: Middle of the Road, Tweedle Dee – Tweedle Dum 5: The Supremes, Nathan Jones 6: CCS, Tap Turns on the Water 7: Marmalade, Cousin Norman 8: Hot Chocolate, I Believe (In Love) 9: James Taylor, You’ve Got a Friend 10: Diana Ross, I’m Still Waiting NAME: Tom Hunt DOB: September 11, 1993 INFORMATION: Somerset Cricket Club MysupporterTopTen: 1: Culture Beat, Mr Vain 2: Bitty McLean, It Keeps Rainin’ (Tears from My Eyes) 3: SWV, Right Here 4: Billy Joel, The River of Dreams 5: Nirvana, Heart-Shaped Box 6: Freddie Mercury, Living on My Own 7: Urban Cookie Collective, The Key The Secret 8: 2 Unlimited, Faces 9: Apache Indian, Nuff Vibes EP 10: Mariah Carey, Dreamlover Top Right: Alan Harris Left: The Tams Above: Rod Stewart Right: The Supremes Top right: Tom Hunt Left: Culture Beat Above: Freddie Mercury Right: Mariah Carey NAME: Dave Vincent DOB: September 12, 1969 INFORMATION: Yeovil Town FC supporter My Top Ten: 1: Zager and Evans, In the Year 2525 2: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bad Moon 3:RisingThe Bee Gees, Don’t Forget to Remember 4: Humble Pie, Natural Born Bugie 5: Marvin Gaye, Too Busy Thinking ‘Bout My 6:BabyJane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg, Je T’Aime – Moi Non Plus 7: Equals, Viva Bobby Joe 8: Stevie Wonder, My Cherie Amour 9: The Rolling Stones, Honky Tonk Woman 10: Robin Gibb, Saved By The Bell Above: Dave Vincent Left: Creedence Clearwater Revival Middle: Zager and Evans Below: Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg MY TOP TEN
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WELCOME to the monthly series called My Top Ten where we go back into the musical history books to see what songs were topping the charts on the day that local people were born.
In this month’s feature we welcome three local people who are celebrating their birthdays in September – Yeovil Town FC supporter Dave Vincent; sales executive Tom Hunt and Somerset County Cricket Club supporter Alan Harris. We congratulate them on their birthdays and everyone else who is celebrating their special day in September 2022!
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Wednesday, September 28: Octagon Theatre: Crimes on Centre Court.
Wednesday, October 5: Octagon Theatre: Vortex – Russell Maliphant Dance Company.
SEPTEMBER 2022
Saturday, September 17: Westlands Yeovil: Andre Rieu Summer 2022 – Happy
Sports and Social Club at Johnson Park in Yeovil from 7.30pm.
Thursday, September 8: Octagon Theatre: A Country Night in Nashville.
Thursday, October 6: Octagon Theatre: A Vision of Elvis.
Sunday, September 11: Fun Dog Show at Hatch Beauchamp Village Hall, starting at 11am, in aid of the St Giles Animal Rescue Centre. There will be lot of other activities, stalls, food and drinks for people to enjoy.
Tuesday, September 20: The Yeovil and District NHS Retirement Fellowship meet at St James Church Hall, Preston Road, Yeovil BA20 2EZ from 12.30pm to 2.30pm with refreshments, a speaker and a natter. Any retired NHS employee very welcome. Tuesday, September 20, through to Thursday, September 22: Octagon Theatre: When Darkness Falls.
YEOVIL MUSIC CENTRE CHOIR and ORCHESTRA The new autumn term will be starting on Tuesday, September 13, 2022. We meet on Tuesday evenings in the Yeovil College’s Kingston Building on the First Floor. If you are interested in joining us please come along and bring a friend! If you need more information please contact 01935-429322 or feona@talktalk.net .
Friday, September 30: Westlands Yeovil: Johnny Cash Roadshow 2022.
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Monday, September 19, to September 24: The Swan Theatre presents The Unexpected Man.
Monday, September 26, and Tuesday, September 27: Westlands Yeovil –Screenings in the Ballroom: Mr Malcolm’s List.
Monday, October 10: Westlands Yeovil –Yeovil Literary Festival: An Afternoon With Alexander McCall Smith.
Friday, October 7: Westlands Yeovil: Jongleurs Legends.
Saturday, October 1: Whist Drive at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 7.30pm. This is held every Saturday. Phone 01935-862325 for more details.
Saturday, October 8: Chard Carnival – South Somerset Federation Circuit. Starting at 7.30pm.
Friday, September 16: Octagon Theatre: The Best of British Comedy.
Petherton Carnival.
Friday, September 16, and Saturday, September 17: Westlands Yeovil –Screening in the Ballroom: Fisherman’s Friends – One and All.
Friday, September 9: Octagon Theatre: Calling Planet Earth.
Sunday, October 2: Westlands Yeovil: George Clarke’s Life in Amazing Architecture.
Thursday, October 6: National Theatre Live at the Swan Theatre in Yeovil with Jack Absolute Flies Again.
Friday, October 7: Octagon Theatre: CCS Carducci Quartet.
Thursday, September 29: Westlands Yeovil: Forbidden Nights 2022.
Wednesday, September 28, through to Saturday, October 1: Yeovil Youth Theatre presents Ghost the Musical at the Swan Theatre in Yeovil.
Thursday, September 8: Westlands Yeovil: Taking Care of Elvis – The King is Back!
Saturday, October 1: Pen Mill Ladies Football Club will be holding a fundraising Rock and Roll Bingo night at the Yeovil
Sunday, October 2: Octagon Theatre: Milkshave! Live 2022.
Saturday, October 8: Whist Drive at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 7.30pm. This is held every Saturday. Phone 01935-862325 for more details.
Saturday, September 10: Westlands Yeovil: Definitely 90s.
Wednesday, September 14: Octagon Theatre: Motionhouse – Nobody.
Saturday, October 8: Octagon Theatre: LAST FEW TICKETS: That’ll Be The Day –October 2022.
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Thursday, September 15: Octagon Theatre: The UK Pink Floyd Experience 2022.
Saturday, October 1: Octagon Theatre: Grimethorpe Colliery Band 2022.
Friday, September 23: Octagon Theatre: Re-Take That – Take That’s Greatest Hits.
Saturday, September 10: Hardington Street Fayre is back after a three-year break due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There will be a selection of stalls, a barbecue, cream teas, live music and entertainment. If you would like to become a fayre sponsor, join the team or rent a stall please contact the organisers via email at hardingtonVSF@ gmail.com or look on social media for Hardington VSF (Twitter and Instagram) or Hardington Village Street Fayre (Facebook). All profits will be split between the village hall and St Mary’s Church.
Saturday, September 10: Octagon Theatre: SOLD OUT: Jive Talkin’ – Bee Gees.
Tuesday, October 11, to Saturday, October 15: Octagon Theatre: Yeovil Amateur Operatic Society presents Legally Blonde.
Saturday, September 24: Octagon Theatre: The ELO Show.
Tuesday, September 20: Westlands Yeovil: Saba Douglas-Hamilton: In The Footsteps of Elephants.
Saturday, October 8: Westlands Yeovil – Screenings in the Ballroom: It Snows in Benidorm.
Thursday, September 8: National Theatre Live at the Swan Theatre in Yeovil with Much Ado About Nothing.
Thursday, October 13, and Friday, October 14: Westlands Yeovil – Screenings
Saturday, September 17: Octagon Theatre: CCS Sinfonia Classica with Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
Saturday, October 1: Westlands Yeovil: Merrill Osmond 2022.
Sunday, September 18: Octagon Theatre: SOLD OUT! Dave Gorman –Powerpoint to the People.
LEISURE LISTINGS
Saturday, September 10: Whist Drive at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 7.30pm. This is held every Saturday. Phone 01935-862325 for more details.
Saturday, October 1: The ADHD Somerset group will be holding a fundraising ball at The Manor Hotel, Hendford, Yeovil, from 6.30pm until late. Tickets are priced £45 each and includes welcome drinks, a three-course meal and a live band. Look for the ADHD Somerset group on social media Facebook for more details.
Saturday, October 1: Ilminster Carnival – South Somerset Federation Circuit. Starting at 7.15pm.
Wednesday, October 5, and Thursday, October 6: Westlands Yeovil – Screenings in the Ballroom: It Snows in Benidorm.
OCTOBER 2022
Sunday, September 11: Octagon Theatre: The Story of Guitar Heroes 2022.
Days Are Here Again.
Saturday, September 24: Wellington Carnival – South Somerset Federation Circuit. Starting at 7pm.
Saturday, September 17: Whist Drive at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 7.30pm. This is held every Saturday. Phone 01935-862325 for more details.
Thursday, September 22: Westlands Yeovil: Carl Hutchinson – Autumn 2022. (Unreserved seating).
Thursday, September 29: Octagon Theatre: Sh*t Faced Shakespeare –Macbeth.
Saturday, October 1: Monthly Market at Digby Hall in Sherborne from 9am to 12.30pm with arts, crafts, food, café and more. Next to Sherborne Library – DT9 3AA.
Monday, September 19: Westlands Yeovil – Screening in the Ballroom: Fisherman’s Friends – One and All.
Saturday, September 17, and Sunday, September 18: The Yeovil Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society will be holding its Early Show at the Holy Trinity Scout Hall off Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 2pm to 4.30pm each day.
Friday, September 30: Octagon Theatre: LAST FEW TICKETS: Abba Mania 2022.
Saturday, September 10: South
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Saturday, September 24: Whist Drive at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 7.30pm. This is held every Saturday. Phone 01935-862325 for more details.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Why Women Should Rule the World – In Fiction and Reality.
Friday, October 21: Octagon Theatre
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Paterson Joseph.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: David Parker.
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
– Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Mensun Bound.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event:
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Chris Ryan.
Saturday, October 22: Whist Drive at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 7.30pm. This is held every Saturday. Phone 01935-862325 for more details.
Monday, October 24: Octagon Theatre
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Liz McConaghy.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Helen Taylor.
– Sunday Lecture: Imaging the Merchant Princes of the Renaissance with Mike Hope. Sunday, October 23: Westlands Yeovil
– Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Delia Smith.
Tuesday, October 18: The Yeovil and District NHS Retirement Fellowship meet at St James Church Hall, Preston Road, Yeovil BA20 2EZ from 12.30pm to 2.30pm with refreshments, a speaker and a natter. Any retired NHS employee very welcome.
Sunday, October 23: Westlands Yeovil: Rich Hall.
Friday, October 21: Octagon Theatre –
Thursday, October 20: Octagon Theatre
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Dr Ed Patrick.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Will Iredale – Pathfinders.
A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Dr Thomas Halliday.
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Lucy Clarke.
Wednesday, October 19: Westlands
Friday, October 21, to Monday, October 24: Dillington House – Course: Bobbin Lace.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Sheila Hancock – Old Rage.
Sunday, October 16: Westlands Yeovil: UPW Steel Cage – October 2022.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Ben Okri.
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
Saturday, October 22: Westlands Yeovil
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Janice Hallett.
Monday, October 24: Octagon Theatre
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
LIMITED AVAILABILITY: Justin Live – The Big Tour 2022.
Kelvin and Liz Fletcher.
– Sunday Lecture: Imaging the Merchant Princes of the Renaissance with Mike Hope. Sunday, October 23: Westlands Yeovil
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Hugh Bonneville.
Sunday, October 23: Westlands Yeovil –A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Peter Snow & Ann Macmillan.
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
– Wessex Grand Prix Circuit. Starting at 7.30pm.
Friday, October 28, and Saturday, October 29: Castaway Theatre Group present Disney’s Moana at the Digby Hall in Sherborne. Tickets from www.
Thursday, October 20: Octagon Theatre
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Ruth Jones in Conversation with Julia Wheeler.
Thursday, October 27: Westlands Yeovil: Boyzlife.
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
Friday, October 21: Octagon Theatre –
Sunday, October 23: Octagon Theatre
Thursday, October 20: Westlands Yeovil
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Vaseem Khan.
– Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Simon Mayo.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Norman Scott.
Saturday, October 15: Castle Cary
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
Thursday, October 20: Octagon Theatre
Sunday, October 23: Westlands Yeovil –A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Brian Bilston.
Thursday, October 27: Octagon Theatre: Saltlines with the Gigspanner Big Band & Raynor Winn.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Rosie Wilby.
A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Amy Jeffs.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: James Crowden.
Friday, October 21: Octagon Theatre –
Yeovil – Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Lynda La Plante – Dark Rooms.
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
Sunday, October 23: Dillington House
A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Huw Lawford.
A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Chris Ewan.
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Peter Rabbit – Hide and Seek.
Thursday, October 20: Octagon Theatre
Friday, October 21: Octagon Theatre
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Dinah Jefferies.
– Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Brendan O’Carroll.
Friday, October 21, to Sunday, October 23: Dillington House – Course: The Hanseatic League.
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
Carnival – Wessex Grand Prix Circuit. Starting at 7pm.
Friday, October 21: Octagon Theatre –
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Kate Adie.
Thursday, October 20: Octagon Theatre
Friday, October 14: Wincanton Carnival
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
Sunday, October 23: Octagon Theatre
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Rachel Joyce.
Tuesday, October 18, and Wednesday, October 19: Octagon Theatre: Apollo Theatre Company presents Lilies on the Land.
Friday, October 21: Westlands Yeovil –
Thursday, October 20: Octagon Theatre
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Fiona Sampson.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: SOLD OUT! An Evening With Lucy Worsley on Agatha Christie.
Thursday, October 20: Westlands Yeovil
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in the Ballroom: See How They Run.
Thursday, October 20: Octagon Theatre
Friday, October 21: Octagon Theatre –
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Levison Wood – The Art of Exploration. Sunday, October 23: Octagon Theatre:
Saturday, October 22: Westlands Yeovil
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Kate Lynch.
Friday, October 21: Octagon Theatre –
Friday, October 21: Octagon Theatre
– Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Anton Du Beke.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Sally Smith.
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Tom Kerridge.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Tracy Borman.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Melanie C.
Saturday, October 15: Whist Drive at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 7.30pm. This is held every Saturday. Phone 01935-862325 for more details.
Saturday, October 22: Westlands Yeovil
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Sophie Irwin and Lianne Dillsworth.
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
Levison Wood – The Art of Exploration.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Finbar Hawkins and Chris Vick – From Sea Creatures to the Supernatural.
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Katy Hessel.
Sunday, October 23: Westlands Yeovil –A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Ben Macintyre.
Saturday, October 15: Taunton Carnival
Tuesday, October 25: Octagon Theatre
Friday, October 21: Octagon Theatre
– South Somerset Federation Circuit. Starting at 7pm.
Saturday, October 22: Octagon Theatre
Saturday, October 22: Westlands Yeovil
Wednesday, October 26: Octagon Theatre: Xtreme Magic.
Friday, October 21: Octagon Theatre
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event:
Sunday, October 23: Dillington House
Thursday, October 20: Octagon Theatre
– A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Clare Whitfield and Zoe Somerville.
A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Jane Shemilt.
Friday, November 11: Weston-superMare Carnival - Somerset County Guy Fawkes Carnival Association. Starting at 7.15pm.
Tuesday, April 11: Octagon Theatre: CCS Noriko Ogawa.
Sunday, November 19: Westlands Yeovil: Francis Rossi 2023 – Tunes & Chat.
Sunday, December 18: Westlands Yeovil: Castaway Theatre Group –Christmas Spectacular.
For more details about events, ticket information and times at Dillington House near Ilminster – please go to https://dillington.com or phone 01460285648.Formore details about events, ticket information and times at the Swan Theatre in Yeovil – please go to www. swan-theatre.co.uk or phone 07500376-031 or email swantheatre@gmail. com or swantheatreboxoffice@gmail. com .
Tuesday, April 25, through to Thursday, April 27: Octagon Theatre: Wodehouse in Wonderland.
Holy Trinity Church Hall, Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 7.30pm. This is held every Saturday. Phone 01935-862325 for more details.
Tuesday, March 14: Westlands Yeovil: Levellers – Acoustic Tour 2023.
Wednesday, November 30, through to Saturday, December 3: The Civic Players present Len Me A Tenor at the Swan Theatre in Yeovil.
Sunday, March 19: Westlands Yeovil: Come What May 2023.
Saturday, November 5: Bridgwater Carnival – Somerset County Guy Fawkes Carnival Association. Starting at 7pm.
Friday, March 3: Westlands Yeovil: How Sweet It Is – Motown’s Greatest Hits 2023.
Saturday, November 19: Glastonbury Carnival - Somerset County Guy Fawkes Carnival Association. Starting at 6.45pm.
Monday, November 14, through to Saturday, November 19: The Swan Theatre Company presents Let It Be Me at the Swan Theatre in Yeovil.
Wednesday, November 23: Octagon Theatre: Rhythm of the Dance Christmas Special.
DECEMBER 2022
Tuesday, December 20: The Yeovil and District NHS Retirement Fellowship meet at St James Church Hall, Preston Road, Yeovil BA20 2EZ from 12.30pm to 2.30pm with refreshments, a speaker and a natter. Any retired NHS employee very welcome. Thursday, December 22: Westlands Yeovil: Christmas Family Disco 2022.
Saturday, January 21: Octagon Theatre: Back to Bacharach 2023. Sunday, January 29: Westlands Yeovil: Gareth Gates in The Best of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.
Saturday, January 21: Westlands Yeovil: 30 Years Celebration Show with Peter Andre.
Sunday, November 20: Westlands Yeovil: Christmas Arts and Crafts Fayre.
Saturday, February 4: Octagon Theatre: Ministry of Science Live. Tuesday, February 7: Octagon Theatre: The Classic Rock Show 2023. Monday, February 20, through to Saturday, February 25: Octagon Theatre: The Mousetrap. Thursday, February 23: Westlands Yeovil: CCS Mithras Piano Trio.
Thursday, November 10: Westlands Yeovil: Talon – 25th Anniversary Tour.
Friday, February 3: Westlands Yeovil: Tap Factory 2023.
Sunday, April 2: Westlands Yeovil: LIMITED AVAILABILITY: Tom Allen –Completely.
Saturday, November 12: Octagon Theatre: Joanne McNally – The Prosecco Express.
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Saturday, October 29: Hallowe’en disco with steam train rides at the Yeovil Junction Railway Centre.
Saturday, November 12: Octagon Theatre: Joanne McNally – The Prosecco Express.
Tuesday, November 15: The Yeovil and District NHS Retirement Fellowship meet at St James Church Hall, Preston Road, Yeovil BA20 2EZ from 12.30pm to 2.30pm with refreshments, a speaker and a natter. Any retired NHS employee very welcome.
Friday, November 25: Octagon Theatre: The Puppini Sisters.
Friday, October 28: Octagon Theatre: CANCELLED: Flo and Joan: Sweet Release.
NOVEMBER 2022
Saturday, November 19: Octagon Theatre: CCS Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Saturday, November 5: Whist Drive at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 7.30pm. This is held every Saturday. Phone 01935-862325 for more details.
Saturday, December 17: Westlands Yeovil: Back to the 80s – Big Christmas Party 2022.
Saturday, February 25: Westlands Yeovil: Sara Pascoe – Success Story 2023.
Sunday, October 30: Octagon Theatre: The Greatest Love of All – A Tribute to Whitney Houston.
Monday, November 7: Octagon Theatre – A Yeovil Literary Festival 2022 Event: Philippa Gregory.
Sunday, November 13: Octagon Theatre: Anything for Love 2022.
Thursday, November 24: Octagon Theatre: Skerryvore.
Monday, November 14: Westlands Yeovil: An Evening with Amanda Owen.
MARCH 2023
Thursday, March 2: Westlands Yeovil: Tony Blackburn – Sounds of the 60s.
Friday, March 24: Westlands Yeovil: The Dreamboys 2023 – No Strings Attached.
NOVEMBER 2023
For more details about events, ticket information and times at the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil – please go to www. octagon-theatre.co.uk or phone the box office on 01935-422884.
Saturday, November 26: Whist Drive at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 7.30pm. This is held every Saturday. Phone 01935-862325 for more details.
Friday, November 4: Octagon Theatre: SOLD OUT: An Evening of Burlesque. Friday, November 4: Westlands Yeovil: Show of Hands 2022.
Friday, November 18: Wells Carnival - Somerset County Guy Fawkes Carnival Association. Starting at 7pm.
Thursday, April 20: Westlands Yeovil: Stewart Lee – Basic Lee.
FEBRUARY 2023
Wednesday, November 16: Shepton Mallet Carnival - Somerset County Guy Fawkes Carnival Association. Starting at 7.30pm.
APRIL 2023
Thursday, November 3, to Sunday, November 6: Dillington House – Course: Autumn Delights Embroidery.
Monday, October 31: Hallowe’en Night with steam train rides at the Yeovil Junction Railway Centre.
Wednesday, November 16: Octagon Theatre: Classical Ballet and Opera House presents Sleeping Beauty.
Saturday, November 19, and Sunday, November 20: The Yeovil Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society will be holding its Late Show at the Holy Trinity Scout Hall off Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 2pm to 4.30pm each day.
Sunday, March 5: Westlands Yeovil: Tim Peake – My Journey to Space.
Saturday, March 11: Westlands Yeovil: Wrong Jovi & Guns 2 Roses.
Thursday, March 23: Octagon Theatre: The Carpenters – Voice of the Heart 2023.
Saturday, October 29: Westlands Yeovil: Back to the 80s – Hallowe’en Party.
Friday, November 25, to Sunday, November 27: Dillington House – Course: Egyptomania.
Saturday, December 3: Monthly Market at Digby Hall in Sherborne from 9am to 12.30pm with arts, crafts, food, café and more. Next to Sherborne Library – DT9 3AA.
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Saturday, October 29: Whist Drive at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 7.30pm. This is held every Saturday. Phone 01935-862325 for more details.
Saturday, November 12: Westlands Yeovil: Chris McCausland – Speaky Blinder.
For more details about events, ticket information and times at Westlands Yeovil – please go to www. westlandsyeovil.co.uk or phone the box office on 01935-422884.
Saturday, March 25: Westlands Yeovil: Phil Wang – Wang in There, Baby!
Saturday, May 27: Westlands Yeovil: Marti Pellow – Pellow Talk.
Wednesday, May 3: Westlands Yeovil: Seven Drunken Nights 2023.
Friday, March 17: Westlands Yeovil: CCS Maja Horvat & Kumi Matsui.
Saturday, November 12: North Petherton Carnival - Somerset County Guy Fawkes Carnival Association. Starting at 7pm.
Sunday, January 8, and Monday, January 9: Westlands Yeovil – Screenings in the Ballroom: Andre Rieu in Dublin. Wednesday, January 18: Octagon Theatre: LAST FEW TICKETS: Rhod Gilbert – The Book of John. Friday, January 20: Westlands Yeovil: Paul Smith Joker.
MAY 2023
Saturday, November 5: Westlands Yeovil: Tina Live – A Tribute Show to Tina Turner 2022.
Tuesday, May 2: Westlands Yeovil: CCS London Handel Players.
Sunday, November 6: Octagon Theatre: Snooker Greats – John Virgo and Jimmy White.
Saturday, November 19: Whist Drive at Holy Trinity Church Hall, Lysander Road, Yeovil, from 7.30pm. This is held every Saturday. Phone 01935-862325 for more details.
Wednesday, November 9, to Thursday, November 10: Octagon Theatre: Peppa Pig’s Best Day Ever.
Thursday, March 9: Octagon Theatre: That’ll Be The Day – March 2023.
Friday, May 26: Westlands Yeovil: The Searchers’ Thank You Tour 2023.
Thursday, November 3: Westlands Yeovil: National Theatre Live – The Seagull. Thursday, November 3: Octagon Theatre: Back to the Musicals.
Friday, November 11: Octagon Theatre: The Manfreds 2022.
JANUARY 2023
Friday, November 18: Christmas Festival – better known as Victorian Evening – will take place in Ilminster town centre and include the switching-on of the Christmas Lights.
Sunday, November 27: Dillington House – Sunday Lecture: Ancient Egypt at the Movies with Mike Hope.
Saturday, October 29: Gin and More Night at the Quicksilver Mail, Hendford Hill, Yeovil, in aid of the School in a Bag charity and the Yeovil Hospital Charity. Tickets are priced £15 (includes a glass and drink tokens). Email dnaevents18@ gmail.com or phone 07805-976076.
Saturday, October 29: Octagon Theatre: Leo Sayer – The Show Must Go On.
Monday, November 7: Highbridge & Burnham Carnival - Somerset County Guy Fawkes Carnival Association. Starting at 7.30pm.
Saturday, November 5: Monthly Market at Digby Hall in Sherborne from 9am to 12.30pm with arts, crafts, food, café and more. Next to Sherborne Library – DT9 3AA.
Thursday, November 17: Octagon Theatre: LIMITED AVAILABILITY: An Evening with Adam Frost.
Saturday, December 10: Westlands Yeovil: Christmas Party with DT8. Friday, December 16: Westlands Yeovil: Christmas Dinner and Dance 2022.
Tuesday, November 15: Octagon Theatre: Classical Ballet and Opera presents The Nutcracker.
Friday, December 9, through to Sunday, January 1, 2023: Octagon Theatre: The family pantomime Dick Whittington.
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The plot centres on Sam, a murdered
The Yeovil Press recently dropped in on the YYT rehearsals and it really does look as if the audience is in for a great show.
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The YYT group will be performing Ghost The Musical at the Swan Theatre in Yeovil from September 28 to October
1.The musical is based on the smashhit movie, Ghost, which was released in 1990 and starred Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg.
Don't miss out on Yeovil Youth Theatre's production of Ghost The Musical
THE talented Yeovil Youth Theatre is busy preparing for its forthcoming musical production.
banker, whose ghost sets out to save his girlfriend Molly from the person who killed him – through the help of the psychic Oda Mae Brown.
To book your tickets go to www.seaty. co.uk/yeovilyouththeatre or phone 07809-401-488.PHOTOS:Christine Jones.
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THE Yeovil-based Pen Mill Ladies Football Club first team opened the new 2022-23 season in fine form with a 4-0 victory over Bath City Ladies.
Next up for the first team will be a trip to Banwell Ladies on September 18, before returning to Johnson Park on September 25 when they play host to Ilminster Town Ladies Reserves in a 2pm kick-off.
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Meg Gratton, Leonie Hobbs, Charlotte Harmer and Lorna Jennings got the goals as the Pen Mill first team got their season off to a terrific start at Johnson Park –home of the Yeovil Sports and Social Club – in Division One of the Somerset County Women’s League.
The Pen Mill Reserves, meanwhile, are at home on Sunday, September 11, when they entertain Bridport Youth Ladies in a 2pmTheystart.are away at Wellington Women Wildcats on September 25 and then at home to Combe St Nicholas Ladies on October 2 and Middlezoy Rovers Ladies
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They then travel to face Paulton Rovers Ladies Reserves on October 9 and are then back at home on October 16 when they entertain Wells City Ladies.
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The Yeovil Walking Football Club welcomes women. This fairly new version of football was originally developed for those who loved playing the game but whose physical powers had begun to fade.So the FA’s rules make it clear there should be: NO running, NO tackling, NO barging people off the ball.
DID you love kicking a ball when you were a little girl? And had to pack it in because you suddenly were not allowed to play any more?.
Yeovil Walking Football Club would like to start a women's only team
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Only recently the Mayor of Yeovil, Cllr Evie Potts-Jones, went down to the sports centre at Westlands to find out more about walking football and took time to speak to the players and the female footballers.PHOTOS: Christine Jones.
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Youth Sport - Senior Sport Club News Team Sport - Individual Sport Send us your photos and reports to yeovilpress@gmail.com We look forward to hearing from you WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE YOUR SPORTS NEWS PUBLISHED IN THE YEOVIL PRESS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER EACH YOURYEOVILMONTH?PRESSnewlocalnewspaperthatcoversYOURlocalareaHOUSEREMOVALS&CLEARANCESPECIALISTS·Tel· 01935 509057 · Mobile · 07853 275379 · Freephone · 0800 2425012 · Removals · 07845 231488 · Email · enquiries@back2market.com www. .com MEMBERS of Yeovil Rugby Club’s women’s squad pose for a photo following a game at Chew Valley Ladies earlier this month.
then please get in touch via email to bobhealey@btinternet.com.Ifthereisenoughinterest then the club will hold a women-only session in which you can come and see what it’s all about. We would love to see you.”
At Yeovil Walking Football it is largely men over 50 who take part, but women of any age are welcome, and at present the group has four female members and organisers are looking to increase that number.Aclub spokesman said: “Age is no excuse not to play. One member recently made his debut for England at the age of 80, and one of our women regulars is 75 and she’d never played before joining us.
Yeovil showed off some great skills and incredible teamwork together in a fastpaced and exciting season opener.
Try scorers for Yeovil were Jonah Backhouse (two), Tom Howarth, Rob Burnell and Alex Voss with three conversions and a penalty from Ashley Morgan-Phelps. Man of the match was Nathan Hawkin.
the visitors.
Yeovil’s first team gave an outstanding performance throughout their match. Following a successful pre-season training schedule, with recruitment and retention seemingly progressing continuously, and a renewed and refreshed commitment to training and games, the new coaching
With a strong squad the Castle Cary team soon took control of the game and barely let the Yeovil Barbarians leave their own 22 during the first 20 minutes or so of the match and they controlled proceedings.PHOTOS:
It was not such a good day at the office for Yeovil Barbarians as they crashed to an 81pts-nil defeat at home to Castle Cary in the Somerset Three Division.
Yeovil visit Blandford on October 1 and return to their Dorchester Road ground on October 15 when Combe Down are
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Playing against tough opposition, Yeovil had to really work hard to pull off the narrow 34pts-29 victory.
Yeovil first XV are at home again on Saturday, September 10, when they play host to Walcot. They visit Wimborne on September 17 and then back at home to Avonvale on September 24.
YEOVIL Rugby Club started the new season with a victory for the first team in the Tribute Southern South of South West Division with a 34pts-29 win over Swanage and Wareham.
The 1st XV was originally due to be playing away at Swanage and Wareham, but the match was switched to Yeovil’s Dorchester Road ground because of player safety due to their opponent’s pitch being too hard.
Five-try Yeovil enjoy a hard-fought victory on opening day of the season
Match action from Yeovil’s 34pts-29 victory over Swanage and Wareham on September 3. Photos –Steve Sowden.
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team, led by Emlyn Kuhn, proudly brought out the season’s squad.
It meant it was a double-header for the Yeovil supporters as the club’s Barbarians side were at home to local rivals Castle Cary.
Playing on the back pitch, Yeovil Barbarians started with great enthusiasm and courage as they faced Castle Cary who quickly took dominance over the game with their unity as one standing them out on the pitch.
Yeovil had gone into the game knowing that victory would have gained them the title and promotion, but it was Bridgwater 2nds who were able to savour that champagne Disappointingly,moment.results elsewhere in the league, saw Yeovil finish the season down in fourth spot.
Yeovil 263-9, Bridgwater 2nds 264-5
over North Perrott the previous weekend on August 27, but lost out by 28 runs at home to Taunton on August 20. Perhaps a crucial defeat came at Chard on August 13 when Yeovil suffered a heavy 71-run loss.But
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2nds reached the winning post and the championship in the 48th over with their batsmen having a good day at the office.
Yeovil 99-1, Wembdon 97 all out Yeovil won by nine wickets
cricket – just like sport in general –is all about ifs, buts and maybes. And it just was not to be this year for Yeovil, but they will bounce back in 2023.
Minehead 162 all out, Yeovil 325 all out Yeovil won by 163 runs
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Saturday, August 27, 2022
Yeovil 248 all out, Taunton 276-9 Taunton won by 28 runs
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Yeovil had enjoyed a good 14-run win
Yeovil 18 273 Wellington 18 239 Chard 18 220
Wembdon 140 all out, Yeovil 262-7 Yeovil won by 122 runs
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Minehead 18 164 Taunton Deane 2nds 18 83
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Saturday, June 11, 2022 Yeovil 217-9, Chard 221-9 Chard won by one wicket
North Perrott 314-6, Yeovil 328-8 Yeovil won by 14 runs
Final Table
It had been an intriguing summer with four teams dominating the table and come the end just 16 points separated those sides with Bridgwater top, North Perrott runners-up and Taunton third.
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Wellington 239-9, Yeovil 241-5 Yeovil won by five wickets
Yeovil 206-8, North Petherton 94 all out Yeovil won by 112 runs
Yeovil 231 all out, Minehead 151 all out Yeovil won by 80 runs
A good crowd had come out to watch the final game of the season at Yeovil’s Westbourne Grove home and skipper Dan Ewens won the toss and elected to bat.
Bridgwater won by two wickets
YEOVIL Cricket Club’s hopes of winning the Somerset Division of the West of England Premier League ended in disappointment on September 3 when they lost out in their title-decider with Bridgwater 2nds.
Yeovil miss out on the championship after a final day defeat
Yeovil 99-6, Taunton Deane 2nds 98 all out Yeovil won by four wickets
Saturday, July 23, 2022
or so runs short of what they would have liked.Bridgwater
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The Yeovil bowlers failed to really get in amongst them and Ben Coombes (66), Kryan Devitt (68) and Harminder Singh (55 not out) all got half-centuries as they eased towards the target figure with the loss of just five wickets.
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Taunton Deane 2nds 125 all out, Yeovil 275-7 Yeovil won by 150 runs
Yeovil 317-5, Wellington 318-2 Wellington won by eight wickets
Bridgwater 2nds 18 289 North Perrott 18 287
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Bridgwater 2nds won by five wickets
YEOVIL Cricket Club’s Under-12s team had a good season and won their league and were runners-up in the cup competition. The players are pictured here with their coaches Steve Holland and Alex Healey.
But number six batsman Max Dicker pulled out a fantastic innings and stroked an undefeated 107 – which included nine boundaries and one big six – to give Yeovil a fairly decent total to defend, although ideally it would have been higher.
There was a key eighth-wicket partnership where Dicker and Sam Fuller put on 81 runs before Fuller departed for 29.Last man Mark Cawley remained undefeated on eight as Yeovil closed on 263-9 from their 50 overs, probably 40
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Saturday, August 13, 2022 Chard 257-9, Yeovil 186 all out Chard won by 71 runs
Saturday, June 18, 2022 Taunton 302-7, Yeovil 68-2 Match
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Taunton 18 276
North Petherton 166 all out, Yeovil 256-9 Yeovil won by 90 runs
Saturday, July 16, 2022
But Yeovil’s top order batsmen had a bad day at the office and went from 65-1 to 97-6 and it did not look good.
Wembdon 18 220 North Petherton 18 177
May 31, 2022
1st Over: Jack Fuller and Tom Laney open the batting for Yeovil. 1-0.
3rd Over: Jack Fuller and Michael Harvey in the middle for Yeovil. 11-1.
Quarter-Final
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3rd Over: Another good over for Yeovil restricting Cranmore to just two runs. 131.
2nds Over: Jack Fuller hits Yeovil’s first boundary of the innings, but Tom Laney is bowled by Brad Angell for a duck. 8-1.
15th Over: Yeovil move the score onto 63-7.
14th Over: Joseph Kember strikes by bowling Taylor Angell. New batsman is Noah Millard. 63-5.
14th Over: Yeovil move the score onto 57-7.
Second Round
Another Cranmore wicket is snared and the Yeovil players celebrate.
Semi-Final
11th Over: Big over for Cranmore as Yeovil pass the 50-mark. William Boucher is dismissed for six when he is caught by Harry Hatch off the bowling of Taylor Angell. And then, crucially, Michael Harvey is clean bowled by Taylor Angell for 25. 51-5.
Ashbrittle 111-9, Yeovil 2nds 114-2 Yeovil won by eight wickets
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Yeovil 2nds - BYE
10th Over: Halfway mark in the innings and Brad Angell was bowled by Lewis Holland. Cranmore reached 38-4.
8th Over: Cranmore move along to 34-3.
12th Over: A couple of boundaries during the over for Cranmore as they moved to 54-4.
Yeovil won by eight wickets
Yeovil batsmen run up some much-needed runs.
20th Over: Cranmore close on 117-7 with Noah Millard on an undefeated 24 and Harry Hatch on 11 not out. Hatch crashed the last ball for Cranmore’s one and only six of the innings. 117-7.
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CRANMORE INNINGS
12th Over: Yeovil look to regroup with Alex Healey and Billy Mullins at the crease. 52-5.
First Round
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9th Over: Yeovil captain Sam Watts is dismissed for eight – bowled by Taylor Angell and caught by Brad Angell. 39-3.
16th Over: Cranmore move on to 75-6.
19th Over: Cranmore pass the century mark and Yeovil experience their first miss-field of the match. 105-7.
6th Over: Yeovil move the score onto 192.
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13th Over: Another big over for Cranmore. Billy Mullins goes for a duck –caught by Alex Raistrich off the bowling of Taylor Angell. And then Alex Healey is bowled by Taylor Angell for two. The game is slipping away from Yeovil. 54-7.
Brad Angell for six. 69-8.
18th Over: Matthew Shorto is caught and bowled by Jack Williams for seven. 81-9.
Middlezoy 70 all out, Yeovil 2nds 71-1 Yeovil won by nine wickets
Third Round
5th Over: Yeovil move the score onto 142.
4th Over: Lewis Holland bowls opener Jack Williams for eight. 14-2.
1st Over: Daniel Kenyon opened the bowling for Yeovil and produced a tight first over. 3-0.
7th Over: Yeovil move the score onto 262.
17th Over: Yeovil move the score onto 78-8.
117-7 from 20 Overs
2nd Over: First blood to Yeovil as opener Joe Weare is caught and bowled by Joseph Kember. 11-1.
18th Over: Billy Mullins takes the wicket of Peter White who is caught out on the boundary by Matthew Shorto for 12. But it is an important over for Cranmore as they knock up 15 runs. 96-7.
6th Over: Alex Raistrich becomes third wicket to fall when he is caught by Michael Harvey off the bowling of Lewis Holland. 21-3.
19th Over: Daniel Kenyon is bowled by Alex Raistrich for three and Yeovil are dismissed for 87 from 18.3-overs. Cranmore win by 30 runs.
7th Over: New batsman, skipper and wicket-keeper Joshua Keene, looks to steady the ship for Cranmore. 26-3.
11th Over: Joshua Keene and new batsman Taylor Keene took the total along to 43-4.
Keene. 11-2.
16th Over: Joseph Kember is bowled by
4th Over: Brad Angell takes his second wicket of the match as he snares Jack Full for eight and caught behind by Joshua
13th Over: Better stuff from Yeovil as they restricted Cranmore to just four runs. 58-4.
5th Over: Cranmore finding runs difficult to get. 17-2.
10th Over: Halfway mark in the innings and Yeovil were marginally ahead of Cranmore who were 38-4 in their innings after ten overs. 44-3.
17th Over: Cranmore move on to 81-6.
15th Over: Brilliant catch by Daniel Kenyon off the bowling of Jack Fuller to snare the wicket of Joshue Keene for 21. 66-6.
8th Over: Michael Harvey hits two boundaries for Yeovil. 37-2.
Huish & Langport 121-7, Yeovil 2nds 124-2
Ilton 2nds 111-9, Yeovil 2nds 112-5 Yeovil won by five wickets
Yeovil 2nds celebrate a wicket in the Minor Knockout Cup Final at the County Ground in Taunton.
YEOVIL CRICKET CLUB 2nd XI Road to the Final Minor Knockout Cup
9th Over: Yeovil bowler Jack Fuller went down after running into a batsman’s bat while attempting a caught and bowled. Nevertheless it was a maiden over for Fuller. 34-3.
87 all out from 18.3 Overs
The Yeovil 2nds put up a great battle against their Cranmore opponents in the final hosted by the Somerset Cricket Foundation, but they just ran out of steam come the end and lost by 30 runs.
The final was played at the home of Somerset County Cricket Club in Taunton on August 21 and the Yeovil team was backed by a good number of supporters.
Yeovil 2nds skipper Sam Watts receives the runners-up cup.
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Yeovil skipper Sam Watts won the toss and elected to field and they struck early with opener Joe Weare going for a duck when he was caught and bowled by Joseph Kember.
The main thorns in the Yeovil side were bowlers Brad Angell who took 3-17 and Taylor Angel l with 5-16.
He explained that back in his day the 2nds was usually mainly made up of “old boys” who had done their time in the 1sts and were in the twilight of their playing days, whereas now the 2nds was a team of young and up-and-coming players looking to get into the first team.
talent in the 2nds who will be knocking on the door of the Yeovil first team.
at the County Ground to have gone out and smashed a few cavalier boundaries or big Statisticssixes.do not lie and Cranmore’s total of 117 included 38 runs from boundaries (eight fours and one six), while Yeovil hit just three fours in their innings.
Yeovil 2nds skipper Sam Watts receives the runners-up cup.
But Cranmore, knowing they needed more runs, opened up and Noah Millard hit 24 off 19 balls, while Harry Hatch cracked a big six off the final delivery of the innings to see his side to a total of 117-7 from their 20 overs.
Future looks bright as young guns just miss out on cup glory
Some good bowling and fielding saw Yeovil restrict their opponents with the bat and after 17 overs Cranmore had only reached 81-6.
Lewis Holland finished with 3-15 and Joseph Kember took 2-32, while praise should be given to opening bowler Daniel Kenyon who conceded just 13 runs off his fourYeovilovers.also, just as Cranmore did, found the going tough batting in reply and only Michael Harvey looked to provide much resistance with 25. Crucially no other Yeovil batsman reached double figures.
But there is a lot of good promising
But Yeovil, perhaps, could have done with one or two older players in the team
YEOVIL Cricket Club’s hopes of winning the Minor Knockout Cup ended in disappointment – but the players could still hold their heads up high (writes Yeovil Press editor Steve Sowden).
Former player Richard Reeves, who played for the club when it was known as Westland Sports, was at the game and said that times had changed.
PHOTOS: Yeovil 2nds at the County Ground in Taunton taken by Yeovil Press photographer Christine Jones.
At the halfway stage, however, Yeovil were on top with 44-3 whereas Cranmore had been restricted to 36-4.
Yeovil 2nds at the County Ground in Taunton following their Minor Knockout Cup Final defeat against Cranmore.
But the 11th over proved pivotal as Taylor Angell struck twice to remove
Yeovil were bowled out for 87 to give Cranmore a 30-run victory – a margin which was probably a little unkind on Sam Watts’ young team.
Nevertheless, the young Yeovil players will have taken much from the experience of playing at the County Ground and will want to make a return soon. The future looks bright for Yeovil Cricket Club.
William Boucher and Harvey which left Yeovil on Wickets51-5.fell quickly from then on for Yeovil as Cranmore sensed victory and it was game over when last man Daniel Kenyon was bowled by Alex Raistrich for three in the 19th over.
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04: What is the best Yeovil Town game you have watched? As a Manchester
02: What was the first game you can remember watching Yeovil Town FC? The first game I remember watching as a young boy was probably Yeovil Town against Brentford in the League One Playoff Final at Wembley Stadium in 2013.
Each month we will spotlight a Yeovil Town fan in surname alphabetical order and ask them 11 questions relating to their support of the Glovers.
05: What has been the biggest disappointment for you as a Yeovil Town fan? Watching the club plummet down the Football League over a short amount of time - as the club was once in The Championship less than a decade ago and seeing our club in the National League is truly heartbreaking.
M is for Lian McGUINN! Welcome to the 13th instalment of the Fan Zone A-to-Z 1-to-11 feature.
If you want to be included in a future edition of the Fan Zone please get in touch by emailing Yeovil Press editor Steve Sowden at yeovilpress@gmail.com. We could well be interested in hearing from any Yeovil fan with a surname beginning with the letter Z!
Photo: Yeovil Town fan Liam McGuinn.
07: If you could name any one footballer – alive or dead – from the world of football who you would have liked to have seen play for Yeovil Town, who would it be and why? A player I would have loved to have seen play for Yeovil is the Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy. He’s played at our club level before and would love to see his mentality playing in our squad.
Midfielder Joe Edwards – Turn to Questions 3 and 11.
Striker Madden
Paddy
10: What are your hopes and aspirations for Yeovil Town’s future and the 2022-23 season? I hope the team can stick together and not crumble with lack of commitment and lack of focus in the middle and end of the season. I also hope the players and fans can stick together at all times and back every decision made by players and the club and hopefully finish in the top seven.
Leicester City legend
Jamie Vardy – Turn to Question 7.
09: If you won the National Lottery jackpot and bought Yeovil Town FC –what is the first thing you would do (within reason!)? If I was to the win the lottery and bought Yeovil I would first buy the ground back from South Somerset District Council and own 100 per cent of the land. I would make it a fan-run club and listen to what the fans would want and make it happen. I would expand the ground and bring in a clinical 30-goal-a-season striker.
United fan, as well as a Yeovil fan, supporting the Glovers when coming up against Man Utd in the FA Cup run was one to never forget - so for me it had to be the January 26, 2018, game against Manchester United in the Fourth Round at Huish Park.
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01: How many years have you been supporting Yeovil Town FC? Since I was born - meaning at least 17 years!
08: Favourite away ground and why?
For my favourite away ground that I’ve been to I’m going to say Woking as the day out itself was a brilliant day and the ground felt like a League One or League Two standard ground.
11: Name your all-time Yeovil Town XI from your time as being a Yeovil Town fan: 1 Marek Stech; 2 Luke Ayling; 3 Jamie McAllister; 4 Byron Webster; 5 Terry Skiverton; 6 Lee Johnson; 7 Otis
Khan; 8 Joe Edwards; 9 Paddy Madden; 10 Kieffer Moore; 11 Charlie Wakefield.
FAN ZONE A-TO-Z 1-TO-11
06: What has been your favourite goal scored by Yeovil Town? One of my favourite Yeovil Town goals has to be the classic Paddy Madden goal in the League One Play-Off Final against Brentford in 2013 or Jordan Barnett’s goal against Torquay United at Huish Park last season which was a beautiful strike.
03: Who have been your all-time favourite Yeovil Town player and your favourite manager? Personally my favourite all-time Yeovil player has got to be Joe Edwards. As a young boy I met him in a supermarket and looked up to him for a while after that. My favourite manager, without a doubt, has to be Gary Johnson!
1945: ONE of the players which made up the legendary Yeovil Town FA Cup giant-killing team of 1948-49 had a few years earlier been guarding a notorious evil Nazi war criminal.
strikers grace the sloping pitch of Huish. While Greaves was grabbing the attention up front that day, in between the posts for Chelmsford was a young goalkeeper by the name of Nigel Spink. The following year he moved to Aston Villa as an 18-year-old but did not get his big break in the first-team until 1982 when, in dramatic fashion, he came on as a tenth-minute substitute because of an injury to Jimmy Rimmer in the final of the European Cup and played a blinder as Villa defeated Bayern Munich in a famous 1-0 victory.
YEOVIL TOWN YEARS
Hickman was a sergeant in the Army during the Second World War and fought at Caen on D-Day +6 and suffered shrapnel wounds in June 1944.
The Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany was liberated on April 15, 1945, by the British 11th Armoured Division. Troops discovered around 60,000 prisoners inside, most of them half-starved and seriously ill, and another 13,000 corpses lying around the camp unburied. It is believed that more than 70,000 people were killed at Belsen during the Second World War by the Nazis.Arthur
Yeovil Town defender Arthur Hickman.
Although still struggling with alcoholism he managed to score 20 goals in 38 appearances for Chelmsford that season.Soalthough there was disappointment on the day back on November 20, 1976, for Yeovil as they slipped to a 2-0 defeat, those fans at the match were able to witness one of England’s best-ever
Nazi war criminal Joseph Kramer.
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In a bid to get him off the drink Greaves decided to rekindle his playing days by dropping into non-league football. He started playing for his local side Brentwood in 1975 and then signed for Southern League outfit Chelmsford City for the 1976-77 season.
Pierrepoint executed up to 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956 – including 200 people convicted of war
crimes in Germany and Austria.
Hickman, who had previously been with Aston Villa, was signed for Yeovil Town by the then new playermanager Alec Stock in the 1946-47 season.Thehighlight of his time at Huish – as it was for Stock as well – was the FA Cup giant-killing run of 1948-49 which saw Yeovil reach the Fifth Round where they lost 8-0 away at Manchester United. But he will be forever remembered for being a part of the Yeovil team which beat Sunderland 2-1 in the Fourth Round –one of the biggest FA Cup shocks in the competition’s long history.
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Six-foot tall right-back Arthur Hickman made over 200 appearances for the Glovers in a five-season stay from 194651.But a year before he arrived at the sloping pitch of Huish he had been standing guard over the captured Joseph Kramer – known as the Beast of Belsen.
Kramer was detained by the British Army after the Second World War, convicted of war crimes, and hanged on the gallows in the prison at Hamelin in Germany by Albert Pierrepoint on December 13, 1945.
Following a long career in the Football League, Spink later became manager of Nationwide Conference side Forest Green Rovers and led them to the 2001 FA Trophy Final which they lost 1-0 to Canvey Island at Villa Park. The following season Yeovil won the Trophy with a 2-0 success over Stevenage Borough.
When Jimmy Greaves and future European Cup hero came to Huish
PHOTOS: Jimmy Greaves (left) at Yeovil Town’s Huish Park stadium in February 2001 where he was a guest speaker at a sportsman’s dinner. Photo courtesy of Nigel Andrews. And (right) goalkeeper Nigel Spink during his Aston Villa days.
After a spell in hospital he caught up with his regiment as they crossed the Rhine. He was one of the first to enter Belsen’s horrific concentration camp in 1945 and was given the task of guarding Kramer – who was directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.
It was back on November 20, 1976, when Chelmsford arrived in South Somerset with the former England, Chelsea, AC Milan, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United attacker in their line-up.When his Football League career came to an end in 1971 Greaves saw his off-thepitch battle with the booze become even more of a problem as he fell into a world of alcoholism where he was drinking 20 pints of lager during the day and a bottle of vodka during the evening.
He also executed several high-profile murderers including John Christie, the Rillington Place Strangler, in 1953; and Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hung in Britain, in 1955.
The football world mourned the death of Greaves, meanwhile, when he passed away in September 2021 at the age of 81 having been ill for sometime following a serious stroke in 2015.
Yeovil Town legend stood guard over Nazi war criminal the Beast of Belsen
1976: YEOVIL Town suffered a 2-0 defeat at Huish to Chelmsford City in the Southern League who included in their team the legendary striker Jimmy Greaves.
“One big memory I had at Yeovil came in the 1979-80 season which was the first season of the newly-formed Alliance Premier League,” he said. “We beat Altrincham 3-2 at Huish and I scored a
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The match finished in an easily forgettable 0-0 draw and Yeovil returned to South Somerset with a point.
To put it into context when Yeovil scored in all but one league game in the 1985-86 season; the only time the Glovers have equalled that feat in modern times was when they won the Nationwide
“I’m not sure of the statistics, but for Yeovil to have gone so long into the season before having a game where they didn’t score must be some sort of club record?”
Yeovil Town strikers Phil James (left), John McGinlay (top right) and Paul Randall (bottom right) all had a rare blank day when they face Barking on March 22, 1986.
“I was at the game and it was my 15th birthday – what a way to spend a birthday watching a 0-0 bore draw,” he said. “But, possibly, the only interesting thing about that game was that it represented the first
time that season that Yeovil had failed to score in a league match.
1968: MIDFIELDER Cliff Myers was undoubtedly an integral part of the successful Yeovil Town team of the late 1960s and 1970s.
The Glovers fire blanks at Barking in a rare 0-0 draw
Alex Stepney had been in between the posts for Manchester United when they became the first English club to win the European Cup in 1968 by defeating Benfica 4-1 after extra-time in the final played at Wembley Stadium.
Barking remained in the Premier Division of the Vauxhall-Opel League
PHOTO: Yeovil Town striker Clive Green (left) with Manchester United great Alex Stepney (top right) and legendary Portuguese striker Eusebio.
Myers was an integral part of Yeovil Town success
League and reached the Third Round of the FA Cup and the Semi-Final of the FA Trophy.Heamassed 328 appearances for the club and scored 81 goals before leaving Yeovil in June 1973 to join Torquay United in the Football League. Myers later moved to the island of Rhodes in Greece in 1991 where he owned the Sunburnt Arms pub in Lindos. He died on February 8, 2019, at the age of 72. PHOTO: Cliff Myers.
When the new club folded in 2006, Barking were re-established and joined the Essex Senior League. In the 201617 season the club won the Essex Senior League, earning promotion to the North Division of the Isthmian League. At the end of the 2018-19 campaign they were transferred to the South Central Division, while in 2021 the club was transferred back to the North Division.
1979: YEOVIL Town came face-toface with a European Cup winning goalkeeper when Altrincham were the visitors to Huish in the Alliance Premier League.
until relegation to Division One at the end of the 1990-91 season. After finishing bottom in 1995-96 the club was relegated to Division Two. In 2001 Barking ceased to exist when they merged with East Ham Utd to become Barking & East Ham Utd.
He went on to have a successful time in Somerset and was part of the famous 1970-71 side – led by player-manager Mike Hughes - which won the Southern
hat-trick with Altrincham having former Manchester United keeper Alex Stepney, who won the European Cup with United in 1968, in goal for them. That was pretty special and stands out.”
Yeovil’s player-manager Gerry Gow had assembled an impressive attackminded team including the likes of John McGinlay, Paul Randall and Phil James – so for the Glovers not to score was unusual!
It was in January 1968 that the then Yeovil manager Ron Saunders brought Myers to Huish having previously been at Charlton Athletic and Brentford.
During that final he made a memorable close-range save from Benfica striker Eusebio – the legendary Portuguese attacker – in the closing stages of the match with the score at 1-1. Eusebio was so astonished at Stepney’s save that he stopped to applaud the keeper.
Move over Eusebio, Stepney couldn't stop Yeovil's Clive Green!
1986: YEOVIL Town’s trip to Barking in the latter stages of the 1985-86 season in the Vauxhall-Opel Premier League would not tend to raise much interest looking back 36 years.
But going back to Yeovil and not scoring goals in games.
But although it might be a game that does not sit easily in the memory bank, it is remembered by Yeovil Press editor Steve Sowden.
And it is a match which is still fondly remembered by Green.
The game at Mayesbrook Park on March 22, 1986, represented the Glovers’ 32nd league fixture of the season in a campaign which was developing into a two-horse race between Yeovil and Sutton United.
The Glovers eventually finished that season as runners-up behind Sutton United, but the game at Barking was the only game they failed to score in during that Vauxhall-Opel Premier Division campaign. Their final ten league fixtures saw them score 31 goals – an average of just over three goals per match.
Green, who joined Yeovil in the 197778 season, went on to score 76 goals for the Glovers during the four years he spent at Huish and is 11th on the club’s top goalscorers’ chart.
Conference in 2002-03 and had a 0-0 draw at Hereford United on September 16,PHOTO:2002.
But move forward 11 years, however, and Stepney could not stop Yeovil Town’s Clive Green from finding the net. Stepney was now plying his trade for Altrincham and was on the wrong end of the result on September 22, 1979, when Yeovil ran out 3-2 winners with Green netting all three goals for the Glovers.
He has been a Yeovil Town fan from a young age and supports his team at every opportunity. Giles is taking the skills he has learnt in his football career development and his sports therapy degree to inspire gym members in Chard as a wellness coach as well as supporting
Yeovil Town director Stuart Robins added: “We are very proud that Hellier Group have chosen our club as one their key marketing partners.
Karina is also the president of the Yeovil and District Ladies Skittles League having enjoyed playing skittles for 40 years.
“The club has a long and proud history and we are very excited to be part of what we believe will be an exciting future.”
YEOVIL Town has been continuing to support local community heroes by inviting them to be part of the matchday experience.
Hellier Group is the new main stand sponsor at Huish Park
“Hellier Group is an ideal partner for us as it looks to further develop its
Dave Rooks was given the honour for Yeovil’s opening home game of the season on August 13 with Wrexham.
portfolio of businesses in the Yeovil area and we are looking forward to being part of that. We appreciate the commitment Martin has made, and we aim to provide increased exposure for the group as we try to climb the football pyramid.”
Glovers continue to celebrate the local heroes in our community
2018 saw Anne become a referee after a 30-year playing career. Earlier this year she took to the field at Huish Park and officiated in the Adam Stansfield Memorial fixture. If she is not coaching or refereeing, then she is mentoring newly qualified referees in the local youth leagues.
Anne is also a Level 1 coach, taking on the coaching role at Pen Mill Ladies and now devotes her time to coaching mini soccer at the same club.
To find out more about Hellier Group, head to their website https://www. helliergroup.co.uk.PHOTO:Hellier Group managing director Martin Hellier (left) with Yeovil Town’s commercial manager Mark Robinson.
The community hero for the Barnet game on August 16 needed no introduction as Karina Parsons, a longtime Yeovil fan, is well-known throughout theKarinatown. is a member of the Yeovil Town Disabled Supporters Association supporting its events and has been fundraising and volunteering for many years.She has been playing a leading role in the fundraising for Yeovil District Hospital’s new Breast Cancer Unit Appeal – having been diagnosed with the condition in 2018.
young people who have faced cyber bullying.AnneCowie was the community hero for Yeovil’s National League match with York City on September 3.
If there is anyone that you think deserves special recognition, please nominate them for the Yeovil Town football Club Community Hero by emailing Mark at commercial@ytfc.net
The community hero for the Dagenham and Redbridge game on August 27 was Giles Moore. He is an incredible role model for both his sporting achievements and his desire to give back to the community.Gileshas never allowed his disability to hold him back, always playing in his preferred role as goalkeeper in both mainstream football for local schools, Neroche Primary and Holyrood Academy, and the Somerset Disability football team.He has gone on to play football for Great Britain and England Paralympic teams, playing in the 2014 Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) European Championship where he was awarded the ‘best goalkeeper in Europe’ title.
In October 2021, she was highly commended in the Yeovil Hospital Awards in the Patient Award category.
She had an active role working for the Glovers as the youth team physio until she left to work in Yeovil District Hospital before joining the Ambulance Service in 2004 as a paramedic and became a specialist paramedic in 2014. She later went back to work in Yeovil Hospital where she worked tirelessly on the frontline during Covid-19, working some very long hours.
Headquartered in Yeovil, Hellier Group is an organisation focused on redefining investment, development and regeneration. Although based in Yeovil, Hellier Group works both nationally and internationally.However,Hellier continue to keep a strong connection with the local area, as showcased by its sponsorship of Yeovil Town.Martin Hellier, the group’s managing director, said: “We are committed to supporting the local community and our long term relationship with Yeovil Town Football club does just that.
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A nominated member of the community is on the pitch and presents the match ball to the referee at the start of the game.
The club party are pictured exchanging gifts with a representative of HMS Somerset.
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MORE than 450 children joined the Yeovil Town Community Sports Trust over the school summer holidays for some football coaching.
“We’d like to thank all our coaches and volunteers for all their hard work, plus the Yeovil Town management team and players for engaging with the children.”
“It was an amazing experience and we are very proud to be affiliated with such a great ship,” said Mark.
Coaching sessions prove a big hit with youngsters
HMS Somerset invites the Glovers aboard
YEOVIL Town Football Club’s commercial manager Mark Robinson and colleagues were invited aboard HMS Somerset to form a link with the ship and crew.
“It’s been a brilliant summer where children have joined us and had fun, made new friends and created memories,” said a Sports Trust spokesman.
He had a managerial spell with Knowsley in the Northern Premier League and also turned out for Barrow –his 15th club.
Ralph, like the other “Sunderland survivors,” got misty-eyed when he thought about the terrific 1948-49 season and although he knew manager Stock had an eye for a gimmick, he insisted that training on sherry and raw eggs was not
one of them. “It really did seem to fire us up,” he Ralphsaid.lasted at Huish for longer than most of that giant-killing team, but in 1953 fallen arches in both feet ended his playing career prematurely.
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100 Huish Heroes - in tribute to John Lukins
He was bought back to Huish from Maidstone for £11,000 in March 1988, but after another 14 games was sold on to Runcorn for £15,000; this time because a new job up north limited his travelling.
NOTE: Ralph Davis died at the age of 84 on March 13, 2006, after suddenly falling ill. Only two days before he had been at Huish Park and was part of a 7,451-crowd to watch Yeovil Town drew 0-0 with Swindon Town in the Coca-Cola League One. He was a true Glovers’ fan right up until the end.
No 8 - 100 Huish Heroes: If you blinked you tended to miss Mick Doherty
He was undoubtedly one of Yeovil’s best-ever goal poachers, with so many moves, if you blinked you tended to miss him.
He had a few war-time games for Hereford United when he was in the Royal Air Force, but when Stock arrived as Yeovil’s new player-manager in 1947 it was not long before he was heading to Stoke-sub-Hamdon to snap up the speedy youngRalphfull-back.didnot have much in common with the other full-back, Arthur Hickman. Arthur was a bit slower, but he was capable of putting ball and man over the grandstand if needed.
STRIKER Mick Doherty was born under a wandering star. When he came to Yeovil Town in December 1983 at the age of 23 he had already played for Hounslow, Wigan, Basingstoke, Reading and Slough.
But wanderlust, or was it the lure of Weymouth’s cash, saw him off to Dorset for £8,000 the following October.
In a tribute to John, we are picking out two of his 100 heroes each month to keep the name of John Lukins in the local press.
In the mid-1990s when Graham Roberts was manager he wrote 100 Huish Heroes. The book highlights –as the title suggests – 100 heroes from Yeovil Town’s history at Huish and HuishJohnPark.passed away on March 9, 2022, at the age of 81.
THE late John Lukins had written thousands of words about Yeovil Town during his career reporting on the happenings of the Glovers at Huish and Huish Park for around 50 or so years.
Yeovil Town line-up for a photo ahead of their FA Cup Third Round match with Bury in the famous giant-killing run of 1948-49. Ralph Davis can be seen in
In 34 games for Yeovil that season he netted 25 goals and staved off relegation almost single-handed.
John was so highly-thought of that the press box at Huish Park was named after him.
No 7 - 100 Huish Heroes: Wingers were put to shame by left-back Ralph Davis
In this edition of Yeovil Press we have randomly selected players for Numbers 7 and 8 from John’s 100 Huish Heroes book – Ralph Davis and Mick Doherty.
The end did not come before he had enjoyed many a tussle with Weymouth’s Sammy McGowan. “He was the winger I always liked playing against,” said Ralph. “He was quick too and we had some great battles. I always had to work hard to keep him on the outside.”
Mick Doherty (right) celebrates a Yeovil Town goal with team-mate Martyn Grimshaw in the latter stages of the successful 1987-88 season.
Ralph, who was still living at Stoke-subHamdon and still supporting the Glovers when John Lukins wrote One Hundred Huish Heroes in the mid-1990s, said: “I was smaller, but I was a good tackler and speed was my other big asset. Alec used to tell me my speed put wingers to shame.”Those sentiments were also echoed by Ralph’s team-mate Bob Hamilton. “In these days of wing-backs, Ralph would have been ideal for the job,” he said.
LEFT-BACK Ralph Davis was one of the truly local men in Alec Stock’s great FA Cup side of 1948-49 which famously beat Sunderland at the sloping pitch of Huish in the Fourth Round.
Ralph Davis.
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Malachi Linton
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After spending time training with the Glovers the Frenchman signed permanently in Somerset and took the number tenYeovilshirt.
game, they showed great character and for the second week running the second half was an entirely different game. Saying that, I thought we were competing in the first-half, more than competing.”
Altrincham 2, Yeovil Town 2 YEOVIL Town conceded a stoppage time equaliser as they went four games into the 2022-23 National League season and still looking for a first win of the campaign.TheGlovers led twice during the afternoon, but were pegged back by their hosts.Malachi Linton gave Yeovil a ninth minute lead, but Altrincham levelled just before the half-time interval through Tobias
YEOVIL Town announced the launch of a brand new match programme for the 2022/23
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Gime Toure restored their goal advantage on 70 minutes and it looked as if manager Chris Hargreaves was about to savour National League success for the first time with the Glovers.
teenager already boasts first team experience, spending time on loan with Tiverton Town last season. He is a highly thought of graduate from the Grecian’s Academy and described by Exeter City manager Matt Taylor as someone with the potential to become “a serious player.”
But Altrincham had other ideas and Egli Kaja struck late at the J. Davidson Stadium on his debut for the side as the game ended 2-2.
But Nicke Kabamba did the damage by scoring two quickfire goals midway through the second-half to put Barnet in control.Alate goal from Jamie Reckord gave Yeovil hope, but they could not find an equaliser.
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Hargreaves said: “Alfie is certainly an exciting prospect, but he’s someone who we believe can make an impact now.
“He’s proven he can make the step up to men’s football whilst at Tiverton, and will become another valuable member of our squad.”
YEOVIL Town manager Chris Hargreaves said he was “angry” and “frustrated” after seeing his side slip to a disappointing defeat at home to Barnet.
YEOVIL Town manager Chris Hargreaves was disappointed that his side had not actually gone on and beaten title favourites Wrexham.
The visitors started strongly and broke the deadlock when Paul Mullin pounced on a defensive mistake and netted.
During his time with the Pools, he netted twice against Yeovil, once in the FA Cup and once in the National League.
“Theone.good thing is they could have wilted and they didn’t in a high pressure
“That will be addressed very quickly on the training ground because it is vitally important.”
Yeovil Town team: Grant Smith; Morgan Williams; Josh Staunton; Max Hunt; Jamie Reckord; Charlie Wakefield; Lawson D’Ath; Matty Worthington; Chiori Johnson; Alex Fisher; Malachi Linton. Subs used: Sam Perry; Matt Grivosti; Gemi Toure. Subs not used: Will Buse; Alfie Pond.
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YEOVIL Town striker Malachi Linton scored a cracker to earn the Glovers a point against the visiting National League favourites Wrexham.
Yeovil Town 1, Barnet 2
“My frustrations lie with us conceding,” he said. “We haven’t been carved open, it’s just one or two lapses of concentration when you are so on top that suddenly one long ball can undo you and sadly that is the case tonight.
YEOVIL Town announced the signing of 28-year-old forward Gime Touré.
“He is another strong addition to our squad and will be amongst the group for tomorrow’s match against Wrexham.”
boss Chris Hargreaves said: “Gime has been training with us all week and has already shown why he can be such a threat at this level.
“I’m disappointed actually because we should have won that,” he said. “But the lads have showed tremendous character after conceding early from a pretty simple long ball which we had discussed, so the boys are annoyed with themselves on that
Signing until January, Pond went straight into the squad to bolster Yeovil manager Chris Hargreaves’ defensive options ahead of the game with Wrexham.
Friday, August 12, 2022
YEOVIL Town captain Josh Staunton said his team-mates had only themselves to blame for the poor 2-1 defeat at home toHeBarnet.said Barnet’s two goals came about because of “sloppy” play by Yeovil and then at the other end the Glovers wasted more than enough chances to have won the“Wegame.have the basis of a very good team and I have to not let the results affect these young lads because we are doing the right things and hopefully when we start putting our opportunities away we will be fine,” he said.
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YEOVIL Town announced the loan signing of defender Alfie Pond from ExeterTheCity.towering
But Yeovil bounced back straight at the start of the second period when Linton scored a fantastic 30-yarder on the half volley.Itwas a good performance by the Glovers against a team which will be vying for the championship come the end of the season.Yeovil Town team: Grant Smith; Charlie Wakefield; Morgan Williams; Josh Staunton; Max Hunt; Jamie Reckord; Sam Perry; Matty Worthington; Sam Pearson; Alex Fisher; Malachi Linton. Subs used: Lawson D’Ath; Gime Toure; Chiori Johnson. Subs not used: Will Buse; Alfie Pond.
“He possesses both technical ability and natural athleticism which make him an extremely exciting attacking player.
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
YEOVIL Town suffered a frustrating 2-1 defeat at Huish Park when they really should have gained something for their superiority during the 90 minutes.
Respondingseason.to feedback from supporters, the club added new content based upon recommendations and returned to a physical programme for the new season with there being a virtual programme at the end of the previous campaign. It was said the price for the programme remained at £3 and would be available around Huish Park on match days.
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Saturday, August 13, 2022
The Frenchman last played at National League level in 2019-20 and scored 13 goals for Hartlepool United.
His good form for Hartlepool earned him a move to Carlisle United in League Two, where he spent two seasons.
“Whoever we bring in has to believe they can affect this club and there will be a couple announced before the weekend.”
“We are really disappointed because we should have won at Altrincham, we should have beaten Barnet in midweek and we should have won against Wrexham last weekend – that would have made things look different story!
Yeovil Town team: Grant Smith; Alfie Pond; Josh Staunton; Ben Richards-Everton; Morgan Williams; Jamie Reckord; Lawson D’Ath; Matty Worthington; Gime Toure; Alex Fisher; Malachi Linton. Subs used: Sam Perry; Jake Scrimshaw; Rowe. Subs not used: Max Hunt; Johnson.
Thursday, August 25, 2022
As well as making eight League Two appearances for Exeter last season, he has also had loan spells with Chippenham Town and Bath City.
Thursday, August 25, 2022
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
YEOVIL Town manager Chris Hargreaves said he was hoping to make two new signings ahead of the Bank Holiday weekend double header.
Jamie Reckord
“Jake is the sort of player who will work his socks off for the team. He’s desperate to be a success here at Yeovil Town.”
Saturday, August 20, 2022
Rowe, 22, can play in both midfield and defence and joined the Glovers after spending some time with the club training.A graduate of the Aston Villa Academy,
But he added: “He adds a lot of value and when you look at the strikers, Alex Fisher is desperate to score and working hard, but we want him to work within that 18 yard box and be that talisman.
Friday, August 26, 2022
National League Yeovil Town 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 0
The 21-year-old has Football League experience, while he has impressive scoring records at non-league and youth level.During the 2018-19 season, Scrimshaw scored no fewer than 48 goals. This included 17 with Southern League South outfit Poole Town in the second-half of the season. This prolific season meant the forward was named Bournemouth Under-18s player of the year.
When he first arrived, the 20-year old signed on a month long loan agreement,
The only goal of the game came during the first-half when Jamie Reckord broke theThedeadlock.visitors looked for an equaliser and pressed, but Yeovil withstood the pressure to gain the three points.
But Hargraves has said that Stewart’s role will remain part-time “at this stage.”
Rowe played for the Midlanders in the FA Cup against Liverpool.
Stewart, a former Yeovil striker, joined the Huish Park coaching team alongside Hargreaves and assistant Chris Todd on a part-time basis earlier in the summer.
The Welsh attacker had earned plaudits in his three appearances so far for the Glovers, winning man of the match in his first start against Wrexham.
YEOVIL Town gained their first win of the season with a 1-0 success over Dagenham and Redbridge at Huish Park.
Saturday, August 20, 2022
YEOVIL Town signed striker Jake Scrimshaw from AFC Bournemouth on a two-year deal.
“Those boys are giving everything they’ve got, but we know it’s a challenge even against a team that’s not fancied.
Monday, August 29, 2022
YEOVIL Town signed Callum Rowe on a short-term deal following his release from Exeter City.
But they could not find that elusive breakthrough which would have given them three points.
YEOVIL Town manager Chris Hargreaves was unable to confirm whether Marcus Stewart would be making his role at Huish Park as head of player development a full-time move.
D’Ath, speaking to the BBC, however, did say that they would soon be picking-up those all-important victories to help move them away from the National League basement zone.
“It’s very disappointing,” he said. “But at the end of the day it’s one point away from home against a team which are right on form, so as a group we will try
Hargreaves said he had received the backing of chairman Scott Priestnall to bolster the squad ahead of Yeovil’s games with Dagenham & Redbridge on Saturday (August 27) and Monday’s (August 29) trip to “HopefullyWealdstone.therewill be two new signings announced for the weekend,” he told the BBC. “It’s something we want to do, we need to bolster the squad, Scott (Priestnall) has been supportive with that so that’s positive.
“The good thing is we are playing well as a team,” he said. “I have been in teams before where we’ve not been playing well and losing every week, but the positive for us is we are playing well and creating lots of chances. “We just need to switch on as a group and make sure we are compact and hard to beat but still creating the chances as well.“It is just taking that little bit of responsibility, as individuals and as a unit, and if we do that the results will come.
“They are a good outfit with good players and all these games are a challenge. It hurts, but the players have to move on quickly.”
Yeovil manager Chris Hargreaves said: “Callum comes from a very strong footballing background. His time with Aston Villa has stood him in really good stead, both as a player and a person.”
YEOVIL Town confirmed that Sam Pearson’s loan from Bristol City had been extended until January 2023.
“Gime Toure has scored already, Mal Linton has two in four, so there has been that attacking mindset and a lot of the lads have had chances to score.”
“The first-half was good, we did what we said we were going do; we were calm and we had the ball and we organised when we were out of possession,” he said.“Because we are so desperate to win games, the second-half became a war of attrition but the clean sheet mentality we have been drumming in to the boys all week, they did it.”
And he added: “There are still some young lads who are learning some steep lessons here. But we haven’t got time for that, we needed to see that out and then it’s a perfect away performance.
YEOVIL Town captain Josh Staunton said the team was disappointed that they could not get a win at Wealdstone.
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Wealdstone 0, Yeovil Town 0 YEOVIL Town had a frustrating afternoon when they were held to a 0-0 stalemate by ten-men Wealdstone.
YEOVIL Town midfielder Lawson D’Ath admitted that the players were frustrated that they had failed to chalk up their first win of the season at Altrincham.
YEOVIL Town manager Chris Hargreaves has said that “almost is not good enough” following the 2-2 draw at Altrincham.
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Friday, August 26, 2022
Lewis Kinsella was shown an early red card for Wealdstone which gave Yeovil a numerical advantage in playing personnel.
Their best opportunity came midway through the second period when Malachi Linton was felled inside the box.
Saturday, August 27, 2022
YEOVIL Town manager Chris Hargreaves was delighted to get a clean sheet and a first win of the season in the 1-0 success over Dagenham and Redbridge.
Yeovil Town team: Grant Smith; Josh Staunton; Alfie Pond; Ben Richards-Everton; Morgan Williams; Jamie Reckord; Matty Worthington; Sam Perry; Gemi Toure; Alex Fisher; Malachi Linton. Subs used: Charlie Wakefield; Jake Scrimshaw; Callum Rowe. Subs not used: Max Hunt; Chiori Johnson.
Monday, August 29, 2022
“The luck is not on our side, but I know if we keep playing the way we are we are going to go on a good run.”
“I will reflect tomorrow and say it was almost the perfect away performance –but almost is not good enough,” he told the“ThoseBBC. players playing again next Saturday (August 28 - at home to Dagenham & Redbridge) will be determined to eradicate these errors.”
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and with the initial spell a success, Pearson extended his stay until the New Year.
Following this, the Isle of Wight born attacker climbed the pyramid with his loan spells, playing for Eastleigh in the National League, alongside, Walsall, Newport County and Scunthorpe in LeagueYeovilTwo.manager Chris Hargreaves said: “I’m really pleased to welcome Jake to the club. He’s a versatile forward who can offer us flexibility in the way we play and utilise him.
He missed out in the game at Altrincham on August 20 due to a minor back injury, but the youngster hoped he could return for the busy Bank Holiday schedule.
But Linton then blazed the penalty kick over the bar and the chance was gone.
YEOVIL Town signed 21-year-old winger Will Dawes from Stratford Town on a two-yearGloversdeal.boss Chris Hargreaves said: “Will is a young player with a real drive to be successful. He’s a local lad who grew up in Somerset, so he knows exactly what the club is about.”
The dour match was settled in the final ten minutes when Lennell John-Lewis netted the only goal of the afternoon.
Saturday, September 3, 2022
Monday, August 29, 2022
National League Yeovil Town 0, York City 1
Friday, September 2, 2022
seen a penalty saved by Yeovil keeper Grant Smith after Glovers skipper Josh Staunton had clearly handled inside the area.Yeovil Town team: Grant Smith; Morgan Williams; Ben Richards-Everton; Josh Staunton; Max Hunt; Jamie Record; Lawson D’Ath; Sam Perry; Charlie Wakefield; Malachi Linton; Alex Fisher. Subs used: Sam Pearson; Gime Touré; Chiori Johnson. Subs not used: Jake Scrimshaw; Owen Bevan.
Saturday, September 3, 2022
YEOVIL Town announced that Alfie Pond’s loan spell at Huish Park had come to an abrupt end after a permanent transfer from parent club Exeter City to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League.Hemade just two appearances for the Glovers, but certainly made an impression with assured performances.
YEOVIL Town had a day to forget at Huish Park as they produced a disappointing disappointment and fell to a 1-0 defeat to visiting York City.
YEOVIL Town manager Chris Hargreaves blamed a lack of “killer instinct” from his team following their 0-0 draw at Wealdstone in the National League.
Monday, September 5, 2022
Friday, September 2, 2022
YEOVIL Town confirmed the club was aware of audio which contained “discriminatory chanting” from Saturday’s game against York City.
The racist chanting – which can be clearly heard on the match highlights video which was shared on YouTubecame as Lenell John-Lewis stepped up to successfully convert a penalty which gave York the 1-0 success.
John-Lewis had only moments earlier
Friday, September 2, 2022
GOALS from Benjani Junior, Charlie Bateson and Nathan Hart gave Yeovil Town Under-18s a 3-3 draw in the South West Counties Youth League against Cirencester Town.
Arriving with international experience, the 18-year-old has played for Wales at youthHavinglevel.joined the Cherries as a nineyear-old, he advanced through the youth system and signed his first professional deal in March 2021 and was later extended in May 2022.
YEOVIL Town manager Chris Hargreaves admitted his team were “below
“An internal investigation will take place into the matter and we will work with all the relevant authorities,” said the club
“All at Yeovil Town would like to send their congratulations to Alfie on his move to Wolves and wish him all the best for the future,” said a club spokesman.
YEOVIL Town announced the signing of defender Owen Bevan from AFC Bournemouth until the end of the season.
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par” in the 1-0 defeat at home to York City.“We can’t hide away from the fact that a few players were below par,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any getting away from that fact.”
Wealdstone had played for much of the game with ten men following an early sending-off, but Yeovil failed to take advantage.“I’veplayed in those games myself as a player and it is sometimes difficult to break a really tight formation down,” he said. “We just didn’t have that creativity to do that today.”
“Yeovilstatement.Towncontinues to stand against all forms of discrimination. We will make no further comment at this time.”
Chris Hargreaves
The Cherries youth team captain arrived just a week after making his Pre-
The match, played at Alvington, saw the Glovers come from behind three times to gain a share of the spoils.
mier League debut as a substitute in Bournemouth’s 9-0 thrashing at Liverpool.That was his second senior appearance for AFC Bournemouth, with the first coming just days prior against Norwich in the Carabao Cup.
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Saturday, September 3, 2022
YEOVIL Town confirmed that striker Matt Grivosti had returned to Bolton Wanderers following the end of his loan spell.He made two substitute appearances for Yeovil against Scunthorpe United and Altrincham.
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