Category: South Somerset
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Artist Grazyna Wikierska explains inspirations for Yeovil’s painted piano
‘The face is a representation of Pachamama, Mother Earth’ For those visiting Yeovil’s Quedam Shopping Centre in recent weeks would have probably seen the latest slice of colourful artwork to be installed in the town . Polish artist Grażyna Wikierska has transformed a piano, which has been placed in the shopping centre, into a vibrant…
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Leonardo UK’s award-winning training ‘building next generation of engineers’
‘CEO Clive Higgins champions apprenticeships and returners programme’ Yeovil has been the Home of British Helicopters for Leonardo for more than eight decades. Somerset and indeed Yeovil are at the heart of world leading innovation within British aerospace. As the company looks to continue its legacy and build further on its heritage in the heart…
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How Sheridan Robins’ passion for Yeovil Town underpins her BBC rise
‘I want to give fans the best overview of what is happening at their club’ When Sheridan Robins got a season ticket to watch Yeovil Town Football Club when she was a teenager, little did she know that just over a decade or so later she would be calling their games for the BBC. The…
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Leonardo UK CEO Clive Higgins: ‘Yeovil is heart of world leading innovation in British aerospace’
‘We look to continue our legacy and build further on our heritage here in the heart of the South West’ Leonardo UK in Yeovil is the ‘Home of British Helicopters’ and as the company celebrates 80 years of manufacturing at the site in the Somerset town, it’s Chair and CEO ad interim, Clive Higgins, has…
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Gloverscast founder Ian Perkins: ‘Transformation at Yeovil Town has been phenomenal’
‘I’d like to think we’re honest and give a good balanced view of things’ Being a Yeovil Town Football Club supporter in recent times has been akin to being punished for following the team and sport you love. In the darkest hours of recent seasons there was a chink of light that came through and…
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Who are STORM? Top local band set to kick-off Yeovil Town fanzone
‘The past months have been like the old days, which is brilliant’ Yeovil Town Football Club open the gates to Huish Park for the first time this season and welcome fans to their game against St. Albans City in the National League South. While relegation was a hard hit to take, a new owner in…
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Read With Yeovil ‘combatting loneliness’ with vibrant group
‘If we can make just one person feel less lonely, our job here is done’ While the coronavirus pandemic brought the country to a standstill, in Yeovil a new book group was born and has flourished ever since. Read With Yeovil has a couple of main aims, to share a love of books and to…
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Inside Yeovil Literary Festival – what it takes to bring it to life
‘It’s quite impressive to have curated an established festival that has gone from strength-to-strength’ The Yeovil Literary Festival team have announced their headline authors for the latest incarnation of the book event that brings top names to South Somerset. Martin Hacker, the marketing manager at The Octagon Theatre in Yeovil, told Somerset’s Alive! the inside…
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Yeovil Dancecentre’s Lisha Allen set to unveil epic new ‘creation’
‘The Allen School of Dance, or YDC, is one of the longest running family dance schools in the UK’ Lisha Allen is the third generation of her family to run the Yeovil Dancecentre, also known as the Allen School of Dance or YDC, which was established in 1939. It is one of the longest running…
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James Bamford’s Project Dance is a ‘dynamic force’ ahead of homecoming shows
‘Dance has an unparalleled ability to unite people’ There is a significant amount of pride and joy in James Bamford as his Project Dance company head to Somerset for one of their biggest shows, the county that the founder and Artistic Director of the dance troupe calls home. On 5th August, Project Dance will perform…
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