News in Wells

A new restaurant could be coming to Wells after a planning application was submitted to Mendip District Council for the former Subhouse site.

The application for the change of use of the existing building to A3 (restaurant and cafe) and A5 (hot food and takeaway) use with a single storey rear extension to replace and extend the existing rear extension at the ex-Subhouse restaurant, Princes Road, Wells, has been made by Anthony Rendell.

Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate and Wells Festival of Literature's poetry judge for last year, is presenting a new Radio 4 podcast on BBC Sounds.

He is opening up the shed at the bottom of his garden, where he writes, to a variety of guests who share the secrets of their creativity and life lessons with the listeners.

The latest official figures show that eight more cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Somerset.

Public Health England figures show that 462 people had been confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19 by 9am Tuesday morning (April 28) in Somerset, up from 454 the same time on Monday. A week before, there were 366 cases.

Over the next six days, Wells Cathedral School pupil and netball player Madison Lewis will be fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support to help the charity during the coronavirus crisis.

She will be completing 2,600 shots in six days for the 2.6 Challenge.

Dulcote Recycling Centre could soon be reopened following a call by local government secretary Robert Jenrick.

The recycling centre near Wells was closed by Somerset Waste Partnership following the initial government advice that travelling there was not essential, and workers have been redeployed to waste collection teams instead.

Avon and Somerset Police are ramping up patrols in Wells to catch motorists driving way above the speed limit.

Chief constable Andy Marsh said officers have been abused but are preventing incidents that would put even more pressure on the NHS.

This week Wells Nub News has celebrated its first birthday.

It's been a fantastic 12 months growing our readership, our family of Nubbers and our presence in Wells and surrounding villages we serve.

At just after two o'clock this afternoon (April 27) fire crews from Wells, Glastonbury and Shepton Mallet were called to a fire in Singleton Court in Wells.

The fire was in the kitchen of the property and crews used breathing apparatus, one hose reel jet, one safety jet, a thermal image camera and a bucket to extinguish the fire.

This is a novel take on a bake - with a junior baking competition for youngsters in Wells.

Any keen baker up to aged 15 can enter, all they need to do is pay £5 to the charity Marie Curie.

All the Somerset carnivals, including the one in Wells which brings in thousands of visitors and raises important funds for local causes, have been cancelled.

Organisers of the carnivals, in Wells, Shepton and Glastonbury, took the decision due to the coronavirus pandemic.