Shepton Mallet Nub News is proud to announce that E-zec Medical Transport Services will become our primary sponsor. This will enable Nub News to produce the latest news and opinion from our beautiful town.

As a company, E-zec is very proud of its long history – the company is now in its 22nd year of providing a high-quality Non-Emergency Patient Transport service to NHS trust partners and patients.

The business was started in 1998, with only one vehicle undertaking many journeys working with various insurance companies, repatriating people who had become ill while on holiday abroad. Reinvesting all of the profit made back into the business, E-zec soon established a foothold in the Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service which quickly saw the business and workforce grow.

The company operates from 30 bases across the UK, with the local site being at Evercreech Junction and a further site based just outside of Taunton. E-zec transports more than one million journeys per year. 

Niall Lockyer is the company's contract manager for Somerset and, being part of a long-standing business, he is keen to support a free, independent local news service like Nub News.

He said: "We are very proud of what we do as a company, and we are very proud of the team we have in the local area.

"Both our Evercreech and Wellington teams work tirelessly throughout Somerset to ensure that ill and injured patients are transported safely. For us, it's all about the patient.

"We are keen to share more of what we do with the local community, and what better way to do that than with Nub News? It quickly became very clear that their passion for delivering great service is the same as ours." 

E-zec, which employs more than 1,400 people across the country and is looking to recruit more in Evercreech, believes that recruiting empathetic, patient focused people is the key to their success.

Niall said: "We are going through a very exciting period of change locally and focusing on making significant improvements to the service.

"Both our current employees and our future employees will be instrumental to that success."

Nub News CEO, Karl Hancock, said: "E-zec Medical Transport Services is an ideal partner to work with because, like Nub News, the local community is at the heart of what it does.

"Without companies like E-zec, we wouldn't be able to survive. This sponsorship enables us to provide news and what's on listings without any of the annoying Google Ads, pop-up surveys and clickbait you find on so many other websites owned by bigger companies.

"We also provide classifieds, property, jobs and live travel. Soon, we will be offering sports, obituaries and much more as we continue to grow."

Shepton Mallet Nub News is unique in that it lets you self-publish using the "Nub It" buttons found on the home page for news and what's on page for event listings.

If you would like more information email the editor, [email protected].