Yeovil District Hospital was at the centre of a report about NHS funding, highlighting Yeovil's unique yet valuable Frail Older Persons Assessments Unit and it's health and social care integration initiative The Symphony Project.

Marcus Fysh, MP for the Yeovil constituency, has welcomed the consultation phase of the A303 upgrade programme, with the Department of Transport announcing plans for the Stonehenge section today.

Last week ended with some unsettling news about GKN as Leonardo consider taking the manufacture of Wildcat helicopter parts back in-house.

Marcus Barrett, local campaigner and Conservative County Council Candidate for Crewkerne & Misterton, has pledged to use new ways of keeping in touch with local people, if elected in May.

Ken Maddock, local Conservative candidate for the Police and Crime Commissioner, has visited Highbridge to see the extent that drugs are affecting the lives of local residents and has vowed to be tough on drugs. 

Transport Minister, Mike Penning MP, has given his support in principle to the dualling of the A303 after a meeting with the Conservative Leader of Somerset County Council John Osman and his deputy David Hall.

Thanks to the Conservatives on Somerset County Council, councillors will be able to spend £10,000 in their local area to improve health and wellbeing in our communities.

Avon and Somerset Conservatives have announced that senior and well-respected Councillor Ken Maddock has been chosen as their candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner.   Ken was chosen in a selection process which engaged hundreds of members from across the area. 

Hundreds of local people in Yeovil on Saturday signed a petition calling on the District Council to stop the increase in car parking charges across South Somerset. 

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