News in Wells

Grants worth £4,500 have been awarded to three charities and community groups in the Wells area in the latest round of the Somerset Fund, managed by Somerset Community Foundation (SCF).

Horrington Cricket Club, Wells Community Shed and Wells Swimming Club have all received money in this phase of the fund's payouts.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has now announced that 11 charities in the Wells constituency, including Heads Up at South Horrington, have received a combined total of more than £196,000 to help their crucial work continue, despite the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.

Wells MP James Heappey has said this money will be a "lifeline" for these charities and those that they help.

Musicians at Millfield Prep School in Edgarley have performed and sent a virtual concert to ten care homes in the area, including in Wells and South Horrington.

Musicians at Millfield Prep recorded a concert especially for residents in care who have been missing family and friends due to the current restrictions.

New national business grants are being made available to support those in Wells affected by the recent lockdown period.

They are the Local Restrictions Support Grant (LRSG) and the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG).

The first week of Wells' new Recycle More service generated an extra 38 tonnes of recycling across Mendip, initial figures have shown.

The statistics include nine extra tonnes of plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays, which equates to roughly 200 cubic metres – more than the size of two double-decker London buses.

A 50-year-old woman decided to take her own life at her home in Wells, an inquest heard this week.

Sharon Jones, who lived in Moss Close, died on July 28 after being found hanging in a room at her home.

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More people could be treated in their own homes or designated "frailty units" this winter to relieve pressure on the NHS during the ongoing pandemic.

The Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which is responsible for allocating the county's health resources, has published its plan for how hospital services will cope with additional demand over the winter months.

Somerset taxpayers may have paid £1.5 million too much for bin lorries because of an European cartel, the county's waste partnership claims.

The Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) is to take part in a group legal action against a number of companies which manufactured waste trucks between the late-1990s and the early-2010s.

NFU Mutual agents and their staff at the Wells agency have nominated local charities Connect Elim and PROMISEworks to receive a donation of more than £1,500 from a national £1 million Agency Giving Fund launched by NFU Mutual's head office.

In light of the national emergency this country is facing, NFU Mutual, the UK's leading rural insurer, allocated £1 millionto help local frontline charities at this difficult time.