News in Wells

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.

Firefighters from Wells helped to rescue a cat from a fire in Cheddar yesterday afternoon (April 28).

Just before 4pm, four fire engines from Cheddar, Wells, Winscombe and Weston-super-Mare attended reports of a fire in Upper New Road, Cheddar.

The local district council has been ordered by its auditors to make information about its commercial investments more readily available to the public.

Mendip District Council has invested in a number of commercial properties in the last few years, using the income from rent to fund front-line services in light of diminishing grant funding from central government.

The Avon and Somerset Neighbourhood Policing team for Wells have moved to a new station at Burcott Road in the city where they will be co-locating with Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service (DSFRS).

The Hot Fuzz Swan sculpture, which was gifted to Avon and Somerset Police in 2012 by director Edgar Wright following the Swans of Wells project, has migrated to the new station at Burcott Road along with the team.