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Mendip District Council can announce that the Additional Restrictions Grant (Round 4) opened yesterday (May 17).

The Additional Restrictions Grant is available for businesses that are not business ratepayers and were required to close by law due to Covid lockdown.

The Bishop's Palace in Wells was delighted to welcome the Earl and Countess of Wessex to the historic site today (May 17).

As part of visits by the Earl and Countess to Wells, coinciding with the re-opening of hospitality and tourism businesses, and to discuss plans for a positive future following the effects of the pandemic, Their Royal Highnesses visited the medieval palace and gardens.

Indoor hospitality venues will reopen and hugging will be allowed as the country moves to the next step out of coronavirus lockdown restrictions tomorrow (May 17).

Significant parts of the hospitality industry will reopen from May 17 and people are being advised to use common sense and personal responsibility rather than government rules when it comes to social distancing, after data confirmed the government's "four tests" for easing Covid restrictions had been met.

A Festival of the Moon will be held in Wells Cathedral in the autumn, with the centrepiece being a giant art installation.

As well as the large Museum of the Moon touring artwork, the festival will include talks and performances including from the first British astronaut Helen Sharman, Fairport Convention and Patricia Routledge.

The launch of the Sew Buntiful project in Wells is approaching fast.

Installation of the bunting in Wells city centre will start on Sunday (May 16) and bring colourful decoration to add extra cheer as the Covid lockdown eases.

Avon and Somerset Police are seeking witnesses and information following a theft from a vehicle which happened on Ford Road, Litton, between 6pm on Tuesday May 4 and 7am on Wednesday May 5.

A white Ford Transit van was broken into by an unknown offender and a number of sets of keys were stolen.

Journalist and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup is to be the new president of CPRE Somerset (Campaign to Protect Rural England, Somerset), succeeding Roger Martin.

Mariella is keen to champion the work of the countryside charity which works with rural communities to protect, enhance and celebrate the Somerset countryside.

To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, the team behind the campaign to save St Andrew's Ward in Wells say they have been told it will now not be closed until summer 2022 at the earliest.

St Andrew's is Mendip's last adult mental health ward, and the decision by the Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to close it followed a two and a half-year period of consultation with staff, patients, carers and colleagues in the voluntary sector and people with an interest in mental health to co-create a new model of mental health care for Somerset.

Despite the country slowly but surely heading back to normality, there was much more of a focus on social media than the in person celebrations for Somerset Day.

Restrictions are still in place and that meant we couldn't celebrate in the way which we would have liked.