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  • Yeovil presented with top award

    THE Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police, Steve Pilkington, was in Yeovil last week to present the town with a prestigious crime-busting award. Stores and businesses, which make up the Yeovil Retail Crime Reduction Team, have been given the coveted

  • Annual report is distributed

    COMMUNITY support and partnership are the keys to cracking crime - as every household in Avon and Somerset will soon be told. The Chief Constable Steve Pilkington's annual report is entitled Partnership With People and was being delivered door-to-door

  • Police target youth crime

    THE Commander of Yeovil Police, Chief Superintendent Jim Shearer, has said that one of the key initiatives for the next 12 months will be trying to curb the rise in youth crime. Chief Supt Shearer, who is the District Commander for the Somerset East District

  • SCANNER APPEAL: Yeovil's award-winning team

    THE Somerset Osteoporosis Service - which is based at Yeovil District Hospital - and is widely recognised as one of the best in the country would relish the opportunity to get its hands on one of the new state-of-the-art scanners. The service clearly

  • SCANNER APPEAL: Facts and figures

    OSTEOPOROSIS has often gone unrecognised as a major disease - but these staggering facts and figures will leave you in no doubt as to how serious the fragile bone condition really is. One in three women and at least one in 12 men will develop osteoporosis

  • SCANNER APPEAL: Shocking figures

    SHOCKING new figures for osteoporosis were revealed earlier this year following the largest ever study of the fragile bone disease conducted in Europe. Results published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research showed that every year around 80,000

  • SCANNER APPEAL: A sophisticated piece of kit

    A BONE densitometer is a sophisticated scanner which detects the amount of bone at a particular part of the body and can therefore determine bone strength. With advances in technology and the development of bone densitometry, it has become possible to

  • SCANNER APPEAL: You can make a difference

    PLEASE support the Yeovil Express' FAST Appeal to raise £20,000 to help fund the buying of a new £65,000 scanner for Yeovil District Hospital in its work with osteoporosis. Be under no doubt that the bone density unit at the hospital desperately needs

  • SCANNER APPEAL: Equipment is desperately needed

    JUNE has been designated as National Osteoporosis Month - and what better way to show your support for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of this fragile bone disease than by supporting the Yeovil Express' FAST Appeal on behalf of Yeovil District

  • SCANNER APPEAL: Help the Yeovil Express

    THE Yeovil Express is delighted to announce today that it is launching the FAST Appeal to raise money towards the purchase of a much-needed new scanner for Yeovil District Hospital. The FAST (Fund A Scanner Today) Appeal hopes to raise £20,000 to complete

  • Back on the big screen

    IT has been announced that Yeovil Town's 'home' Nationwide Conference fixture with Woking on Tuesday, September 24, will be screened live on Sky Sports Television (writes Steve Sowden). There is still no definite news on whether the Glovers' Huish Park

  • The feel good factor

    OPTIMISM among supporters surrounding Yeovil Town's chances of winning the Nationwide Conference title next season and with it a place in the Football League is already paying dividends at Huish Park (writes Steve Sowden). The club's commercial secretary

  • Rebels in fixture pile-up

    Yet another Friday-night downpour at the Oak Tree Arena last weekend could mean the Somerset Profile Rebels having to stage two home meetings in a week to clear the backlog of fixtures. The Rebels, who are at home to Glasgow Tigers on Friday at 7.30pm

  • Holiday ends in tragedy

    TWO separate inquiries are under way into the death of the five-year-old girl after she became trapped in mud on Berrow beach. Police launched an immediate investigation in to the circumstances surrounding the tragic accident on Sunday. And now Sedgemoor

  • School's play area vandalised

    SAFETY measures are being put in place after a Burnham school play area was vandalised. Police have joined forces with staff at St. Christopher's School in a bid to prevent an attack happening again. Officers have advised parents to ensure their children

  • This is what you'd call a real 'bog garden'

    WHEN you think of a bog garden you imagine a soggy patch of garden with bull rushes and grasses - certainly not what a nurse at St Margaret's Somerset Hospice has created at her home in Stoke-sub-Hamdon. But her green-fingered imagination has conjured

  • Criminals are under the thumb

    STATE-OF-THE-ART detection equipment is to be used by police in Yeovil in a bid to get criminals right under their thumbs to stamp out the double menace of credit card fraud and counterfeit cash. The Avon and Somerset police force has invested in the

  • SCANNER APPEAL: What is osteoporosis?

    THOUSANDS of people across the country suffer from osteoporosis. But what actually is osteoporosis - a condition commonly referred to as the 'silent epidemic.' Osteoporosis means 'porous bones' and is a condition of the skeleton characterised by low bone

  • SCANNER APPEAL: Osteoporosis risk factors

    MOST people have suffered during their lifetime a broken leg, arm or finger - but it does not necessarily mean that we all suffer from osteoporosis. To give you an idea as to what are the main risk factors then look at our checklist below. A low trauma

  • Glory day is brought back to life

    WHO will ever forget that glorious day at Villa Park on Sunday, May 12, when Yeovil Town finally won the FA Umbro Trophy for the very first time? Who will ever forget Chris Weale's cracking acrobatic save in the opening minutes of the final against Stevenage

  • Players return for training

    YEOVIL Town players return to training on Monday (July 1) -- amazing when you think that it only seems like yesterday that the Glovers' were winning the FA Umbro Trophy. But manager Gary Johnson has written to all of his troops during recent weeks to

  • Joby for Games

    EAST Huntspill tract cyclist Joby Ingram-Dodd has been named in the Wales squad for the Commonwealth Games, which start in Manchester next month. His selection follows a year of exceptional success, in which the young flier, from New Road, East Huntspill

  • Corfield's England youth call

    LOCAL golfer Lee Corfield has been named in the England side for their defence of the European Youth Team Championship trophy in Poland, next month. The 19-year old Burnham and Berrow member, from Brent Street, Brent Knoll, won the Lythan Trophy, one

  • Historic Brean Down Fort re-opens after £431,000 renovation

    BREAN Down fort re-opened this week after the completion of a £431,000 renovation project. The Chairman of Sedgemoor District Council, Cllr Neville Jones, was on hand on Tuesday to present the keys of the World War Two fort to the National Trust at the