News in Wells

There are now four cygnets at the Bishop's Palace in Wells.

The fourth has just hatched leaving just one egg to go.

Congratulations to 16-year-old Wells singer/songwriter Hetta Falzon, who has now been selected for the final 10 in the Song Academy Young Songwriter 2021 competition, for the second successive year.

Last year, at just 15 years old, Wells Cathedral School student Hetta was runner up of the whole Young Songwriter of the Year Competition 2020, with her song Obsession.

This Thursday (May 6) we will be going to the polls to vote for a new police and crime commissioner for the Avon and Somerset force area.

Here are profiles of the five candidates, in alphabetical order by surname.

There was much excitement on the moat at the Bishop's Palace in Wells this morning (May 2) as the first cygnets hatched on the nest of the famous palace swans.

Two avid Swan Cam fans noticed movement on the nest around 9am this morning and notified the palace via Facebook and email.

School children from Wells - aged four to 14 - are being encouraged to design a new stamp to commemorate pandemic heroes and if their design is chosen, win money for their school.

Eight designs will be chosen to become special stamps, which will be seen by the Queen and then go on sale across the UK.

In March 2020 the world changed for everyone - but most people did not expect that more than a year would pass before things normally taken for granted would be permitted.

A salutary lesson for all of us! Now in April 2021 in the UK there are reasons to be hopeful but globally it's a different story. Patience needed!

It has been a cold end of April and snow has fallen on the hills around Wells today (April 30).

These photos were taken today in Rookham on the Mendip Hills just outside of Wells, as snow settled on the ground.

Reasons why young people select a job offer vary. It may be the money or prospects of promotion.

Bruce Scobie chose a Wells firm of solicitors because he was impressed by the interviewer's inventive way of communicating with his secretary by tapping in the wall between his office and hers in Morse Code.

All recycling and rubbish collections in the week of the early May Bank Holiday on Monday May 3 will be one day later, Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) has confirmed.

With no collections on Bank Holiday Monday, the week's day changes, from Monday's pick-ups on Tuesday through to Friday's taking place on Saturday May , will affect recycling, rubbish, garden waste, clinical, assisted and bulky waste collections, and waste container deliveries.

The main sponsor of Wells Nub News is diversifying into a new market as it bounces back out of the Covid pandemic.

JP (Automatic Transmissions) Ltd has moved into a new market for 4x4 transfer cases and parts, dealing with clients across the country.