Radio Ninesprings

30/11/2025

Tonight get your glow sticks ready!!

30/11/2025

Steve Bulley's Sunday Survey

36% of us would do this to raise money for charity.

29/11/2025

Yeovil Town FC home win this afternoon.

FT | Yeovil Town 2-1 Boston United

THE ROWLEY ERA IS UNDERWAY!!

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29/11/2025

A snippet from the Crewkerne light switch-on last night with our Drivetime host Ross Owen Williams behind the mic (and comparing beards with Father Christmas and the Town Crier!)

29/11/2025

Steve Bulley's BIG Question

The tallest what was 221ft high?

28/11/2025

This week’s edition of From the Potting Shed with Julie Haylock of Sandhurst Garden Design looks at the Yeovil Literary Festival
The Gardens Group

Frances Tophill
BBC Gardeners World

28/11/2025

Local News Friday 28th November

Somerset Council has failed to stop 150 homes being built in Crewkerne. The council turned down the development near Cathole Bridge Road at Kithill because it would create an unacceptable level of overlooking and increase the flood risk. Following an appeal, developers Tilia Homes Ltd have been permitted to build the houses, with construction expected to start sometime in 2026.

Posters of a drag act coming to Somerset, displayed in Shepton Mallet, have been vandalised. The posters advertise a performance by Absolutely Dragulous at Studio 24 in Wells in December, as part of a UK-wide tour. The venue is offering a reward for information leading to the identification of those responsible for damaging the posters.

A Somerset teenager has been speaking about the benefits of the Stepping Stones scheme that helps young people coming out of care. Leon says he was in a difficult place in life when he was paired with Pat, who gave him a room of his own at her home. Pat has been providing young people coming out of care with accommodation for 10 years and is asking others with a spare room in their homes to do the same.

Avon and Somerset police are using proceeds from drug crime to fund community projects. The force has invested £69,000, seized from criminals, into schemes to prevent young people from getting into crime. They include things like skateboarding, boxing and cycling.

A Somerset teenager has been speaking about the benefits of the Stepping Stones scheme that helps young people coming out of care. Leon says he was in a difficult place in life when he was paired with Pat, who gave him a room of his own at her home. Pat has been providing young people leaving care with accommodation for 10 years and is asking others with spare rooms to do the same.

27/11/2025

27/11/2025

Local News Thursday 27th November

Yeovil MP Adam Dance has welcomed news that a new NHS dentist will open in Chard next week. One Smile Dental will run the practice and plans to see its first patients on Tuesday. The registration process is due to restart before the end of the week, following higher-than-expected demand for appointments.

Yeovil Town’s new manager, Billy Rowley, has appointed Darren Simpson as his assistant. Simpson worked closely with Rowley during their time together at Walton and Hersham. Both will be in the dugout for the first time when Yeovil host Boston United at Huish Park on Saturday.

Symphony Healthcare Services is streamlining the way it runs its seven GP surgeries in our area. At the moment, Ilchester Surgery, Martock Surgery, and the Buttercross Health Centre in Somerton operate on separate contracts to Symphony’s four other GP practices in Crewkerne, South Petherton, and Stoke-sub-Hamdon. Symphony managing director Kerry White says from January, all seven practices will operate under one contract, enabling their medical teams to use a shared medical record system to provide more efficient patient care.

The go-ahead has been given to install five new lighting and CCTV columns on land in Milfield Road, in Chard. The site, owned by Numatic, is used for employee and visitor parking.

A date’s been announced for the start of work replacing ageing traffic signals on the A39 junction with Clarks Village in Street. Somerset Council says six sets of traffic lights spanning the intersection need to be renewed because they are more than 30 years old. The work will start on January 5th and last for up to 16 weeks. The road between Westway Roundabout and Street Roundabout will also be resurfaced, with a new path for cyclists and pedestrians added.

The finalists have been announced for this year’s Turnip Prize, held in Somerset every year, as a spoof of the Turner Prize, celebrating the silliest artwork made with the least amount of effort. Amongst this year’s finalists is a crushed beer can called ‘Bitter and Twisted’.

26/11/2025

Adrian Dening's Stars Over Somerset
Monday 1st to Sunday 7th December 2025

If you missed the shadow of Jupiter's moon Ganymede being cast on the planet's surface last week, there is another opportunity to witness it from 6am on the morning of Tuesday 2nd. At that time, Jupiter will be located towards the west and you will only have a little window of opportunity before dawn.

Look towards the west again at 3am in the early hours of Thursday 4th to see a 98%-lit gibbous Moon occulting (or appearing to pass in front of) the Pleiades open cluster of stars, Messier 45.

If that's a bit too much of an unsociable hour for you, pop back outside around 7pm on the Thursday evening and look towards the east, where you will find what has then become a Full Moon rising above the horizon. It will be just above the constellation of Ta**us and heading towards the Pleiades again. This Full Moon occurs close to perigee, when the Moon is closest to us in its orbit around the Earth, so it will appear slightly larger than at other times, when it is at apogee and furthest away from us.

If you are up early on Sunday 7th, Mercury reaches its greatest elongation and will be 20 degrees away from the rising Sun, so this is an ideal opportunity to observe it. By 6.30am, the planet will have risen above the horizon towards the south east.

Please don't be tempted to use binoculars or a telescope to obtain a better view though, because the Sun will be appearing in the same place shortly afterwards and you mustn't risk catching even the tiniest glimpse of it in your eyepiece!

www.starsoversomerset.com
Screenshots courtesy of Stellarium
Copyright Adrian Dening and Radio Ninesprings 2025

26/11/2025

Local News Wednesday 26th November

Workers at Leonardo Helicopters in Yeovil, who are members of the Unite union, have accepted a new pay offer of 8 per cent over two years and have called off their threat of further strike action. Unite members across Leonardo sites in Yeovil, Luton, Basildon, Newcastle and Edinburgh had already walked out earlier in the month after rejecting a 3.6% pay rise. Leonardo says the new pay deal reflects the company’s continued commitment to offering fair and sustainable pay.

Yeovil Town has appointed a new first-team Manager. He’s Billy Rowley, who for the past 18 months has been in charge at Southern League Premier side Walton & Hersham. Rowley takes over the manager’s job at Huish Park from Richard Dryden following Yeovil’s run of eight games without a win.

Police forces across England have signed up to a new crime strategy that prioritises catching crime gangs targeting farms. The National Police Chief’s Council says issues such as farm machinery theft strike at the heart of rural life and that better co-ordination is needed between police forces to find those responsible.

A new NHS dental practice is due to open in Chard next month. One Smile Dental, at Unit 21 on Leach Road, will provide general NHS dental services. At the moment, the practice has paused registrations due to higher-than-expected demand, but says its website should reopen for new registrations before the end of the week.

New floodlights have been installed at the Archie Gooch sports ground in Ilminster, home to Ilminster FC. The lights, partly funded by the Gooch Charitable Fund, will be used for the first time on Saturday when Ilminster entertain Torridge. Work has also been completed on building a new stand at the ground.