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The team at Chestnut Lodge Nursing Home in Yeovil has been boosted with the arrival of a new head chef, Jithin Chacko, who has previously worked in various hotels in the Middle East and in a number of care homes in the UK.
A new tool that simplifies the way that hair salons, spa operators, tattoo parlours, tanning studios and nail bars can take bookings from customers has been developed by event booking specialists Tyg Tickets.
A retired yachtsman chose the dementia care home where his wife now lives, Camelot House and Lodge in Wellington, as the venue for a donation of specialist kit and clothing to the charity Wimbleball Sailability, which provides access to sailing programmes for those living with disability.
The hospitality sector is “craving some consistency” from the government following recent changes to the business rates regime, according to a leading lawyer.
Amid falling global fertility rates, school sex education should be expanded to cover both contraception and ways to safeguard reproductive health, it is claimed.
Volunteers gathered at Wistman’s Wood National Nature Reserve last week to help plant a further 800 trees, as part of efforts to extend one of the South West’s last remaining fragments of temperate rainforest. This follows the planting of 450 saplings at the site in March 2025.
Thousands of rugby clubs across England are onto a winner thanks to a major new alliance between England Rugby and Regency Purchasing Group.
South London Neo-Soul Star Greentea Peng, Malian icon Oumou Sangaré, Reggae legend Barrington Levy and Swedish Folk hero José González lead inaugural line-up for Neston Park.
National law firm Clarke Willmott has formed a partnership in Ukraine which will help Ukrainian manufacturers in the war-torn country to export Ukraine-made goods to the UK and EU.
A new multi-million pound project will see thousands of on-street electric vehicle chargepoints installed right across Dorset.
A new organisation - Bristol Family Law Solutions (BFLS) - was officially launched at a well-attended event held at Clarke Willmott’s Bristol office during Family Mediation Week.
Pledging to love and care for the toy animal they chose as their pet was part of the fun ‘adoption’ process created for residents at a Wellington dementia care home by the team who organise their activities.
Thousands of families across the UK remain stuck in “legal limbo” almost five years after the collapse of Scottish law firm McClure Solicitors, according to a leading lawyer.
Elderly residents at a dementia care home in Yeovil have been doing their bit for the environment by employing for their craft activities items which would otherwise have been recycled.
The British Book Awards 2026 Independent Bookshop of the Year Award, sponsored by book wholesaler Gardners, celebrates stores that are at the centre of local communities, bringing passion and knowledge to the shop floor.
