Stories for 27 June 2002

Burnham On Sea News

School's play area vandalised

SAFETY measures are being put in place after a Burnham school play area was vandalised.  more...

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.   more...

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.  more...

Burnham On Sea Sport

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.  more...

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.  more...

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.  more...

Yeovil News

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.  more...

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 Hospital.  more...

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.  more...

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.  more...

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.  more...

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.  more...

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.  more...

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.  more...

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.'  more...

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.  more...

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.  more...

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.  more...

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.  more...

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.  more...

Yeovil Sport

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).  more...

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).  more...

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.  more...

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?  more...