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28/12/2025

It’s party time with The Carnival Hour tonight at 6pm on Radio Ninesprings

28/12/2025

Steve Bulley's Sunday Survey

58% of us say we will be doing WHAT in the next week?

28/12/2025

Here are details on how the Yeovil Young Farmers can collect your Christmas tree until 11 Jan 2026. 👇

27/12/2025

https://youtu.be/RwNypwl_xvU?si=Gt__yualq9StQjfv
Yeovil's much-loved branch of Woolworths closed 17 years ago today. This was filmed a few days before the shutters came down for good. Poor mobile phone video quality back then but can you spot anyone you know? 😊

The economic downturn claims high street favourite Woolworths. Yeovil's branch due to close on December 27th 2008.

27/12/2025

Steve Bulley's BIG Question

2.9 million of us use WHAT each month?

26/12/2025

Defeat this afternoon at Truro.

FT | Truro City 1-0 Yeovil Town

It ends in defeat.

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26/12/2025

This week’s edition of From the Potting Shed with Julie Haylock of Sandhurst Garden Design looks at a visit to the Garden Media Guild Awards
The Gardens Group
Garden Media Guild Page

25/12/2025

To all our listeners and followers - thank you for your support once again this year, from everyone at Radio Ninesprings. Here's to a happy, healthy and successful 2026.

24/12/2025

Adrian Dening's Stars Over Somerset
Monday 29th December 2025 to Sunday 4th January 2026

Remember that in space, nothing is a perfect circle. Orbits are never perfectly round and this is particularly noticeable in the case of our own Moon. The point in the Moon's orbit when it is closest to us is known as "perigee" and the furthest point is called "apogee".

On Saturday 3rd January we have the first Full Moon of the year and this particular one is referred to as being a "Supermoon" as it occurs very close to perigee. The moon will appear 30% brighter and 14% larger than it does at apogee, when it is then known as a "Micromoon".

If you venture outside just as it's getting dark on 3rd, say around 5pm, the Moon will have risen above the horizon towards the north east and planet Jupiter will be just below it.

As it will be close to the horizon, the Moon will look artificially very large - this is nothing to do with it being at perigee, rather that optical effect known as "Moon illusion" where your brain plays a trick on you when viewing things close to the sky line.

You won't see many stars at dusk, but one of the brightest stars in the night sky called Capella should already be visible directly above the Moon.

Coincidentally, the Earth reaches perihelion on 3rd, which is the point when we are closest to the Sun during our orbit around it. I assure you that it won't feel 30% warmer that day and the Sun won't appear 14% larger though as the distances are much further than our Moon unfortunately.

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

24/12/2025

Local News Wednesday 24th December

A formal planning application has been made to carry out significant improvements costing £15 million to Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre. The works include improvements to the auditorium and rehearsal space, as well as to the front-of-house facilities, toilets, and stage and backstage areas. Providing the plans are approved, Somerset Council and Yeovil Town Council, who’re working jointly on the project, say work will start during the 2026/2027 financial year.

The Halifax Bank in King George Street in Yeovil could be converted into flats. Plans have been submitted to convert the former banking premises into a house of multiple occupation, providing 17 co-living rooms with associated shared communal facilities. The Halifax in King George Street closes permanently on Monday, January 12th, and re-opens within Lloyds Bank in The Borough on Wednesday, January 14th.

Donyatt Parish Council has developed proposals to minimise flood risk in the village. They include improving the drainage on Crow Lane and changes in farming practices in local fields.

A new young people’s centre opens in Chard early in the New Year. The Hive Centre in Essex Close will begin operating on Monday, January 5th. It will host three evening sessions each week and four after-school drop-in sessions.

23/12/2025

23/12/2025

Local News Tuesday 23rd December

NHS Somerset reports strong uptake of flu jabs, but some eligible people still haven’t come forward. Flu jabs are on offer at local GPs, community pharmacies or NHS drop-in clinics.

Somerset Council has announced new dates for bin collections over the festive period. Collections scheduled for Thursday, 25th December (Christmas Day) will move to Saturday, 27th December. Those due on Friday, 26th December (Boxing Day), move to Sunday, 28th December. Those due on Thursday 1st January (New Years Day) move to Friday 2nd January. Those on Friday, 2nd January, move to Saturday, 3rd January.

Police are appealing for witnesses to an accident on the A303 Eastbound between South Petherton and the Cartgate Roundabout in which a pedestrian was killed. It happened at around 9.45 pm on Sunday and involved a Seat Leon. The occupants of the Seat were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Police are keen to speak with a van driver who drove off the A303 at the Crewkerne junction at the time of the collision. If you can help with dash cam footage, or were travelling on the Ilminster by-pass and saw what happened, please call the non-emergency number 101.

More than 6,000 children across 47 schools in the Diocese of Bath and Wells have participated in an online collective worship led by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Michael Beasley. Bishop Michael spoke to pupils about the meaning of Christmas and the message of hope delivered by the angels to the shepherds.

A Crewkerne woman has gone viral on social media after being trapped inside a Lidl store in the town. Sarah McClelland says she mistakenly entered the supermarket after it had closed and was unable to exit the building. Luckily, someone outside spotted her and let her out. Sarah put her exploits on TikTok, where they have been viewed more than a million times.