News in Wells

Adopt a path, drive people to vital medical appointments, help in a library or help out in Somerset's outdoor activity centres – there are plenty of volunteering opportunities to put a spring in your step this spring.

The Council has over 175 volunteer drivers based all over Somerset who drive people unable to drive themselves to vital medical, social care and other appointments at different locations. Volunteers are asked to commit to 1-2 full days a week minimum, need to own a four-door car and will be reimbursed at up to 50p per mile.

Date: 29.03.2019
Time: 11:49
Location: Brooks Road, Street

One fire appliance from Street, one from Glastonbury and one from Wells were sent to a report of an attic fire in a property at the above location.
50% of the loft space was damaged by fire and 100% damaged by heat and smoke.  The fire was dealt with by crews using 6 breathing apparatus, 2 hose reel jets, 2 safety jets, a thermal image camera, 135 ladder and a roof ladder with safety at height equipment.  An Ambulance was requested for a male person suffering smoke inhalation. 
 

A 34-year-old man died after the incident

The Mermaid Inn is to be fully refurbished and re-opened for the community of Wells

THE City of Wells and The Bishop's Palace have both won prestigious awards at the 2019 British Coach Tourism Awards.

The Visit Wells and Visit by Coach groups comprise members from Wells Cathedral, The Bishop's Palace, Wells & Mendip Museum, Wells Civic Society, the city council and the chamber of commerce, and has been facilitated by Ian Jefferies, an expert in group and coach tourism.

THE Diocese of Bath and Wells has announced that it is going to buy the office building owned by Aster Communities at Cathedral Park to use for its offices when it moves out of The Old Deanery.

Contracts were exchanged on March 19, with completion set for later this year, and Aster moving out and the diocese relocating by early 2020 after work has been completed on an internal re-fit of the building.

ORGANISERS of some of the biggest events in Wells say that is increasingly difficult to stage them because of council bureaucracy.

"We fully understand the safety of the public at any event is paramount, but the demands placed upon us by Mendip Council this year means that as a small volunteer charity group, we do not have the resources to devote to the extensive requirements that the council is seeking to impose.

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TWO folk musicians from Wells are trying to do their bit to heal the country's divisions with a new song being released in March.

Their latest song includes the voices of people all over the UK singing the title, Harmonise, into their phones.

ROCK legend Ian Anderson is coming to play a concert at Wells Cathedral.

Over the past 12 years, Anderson has performed in many of the great cathedrals and churches in the UK helping to raise much-needed funds for their preservation.

MORE names have been added to the line-up for this year's Wells Comedy Festival.

Live at the Apollo's Hal Cruttenden and multi-award-winning Radio 4 star Sarah Kendall are among those who have joined the bill for the fifth annual comedy festival.