News in Shepton Mallet

Councillors from Mendip District Council will lay eco-wreaths made by residents and florists in Mendip's city, towns and rural communities to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other conflicts.

The eco-wreaths are being made by Street-based florist Luce Loves Flowers and Glastonbury florist Abundiflora.

An initiative to address fuel poverty, improve energy efficiency in homes and cut carbon emissions is to be launched by Mendip District Council.

The fuel poverty awareness push, approved by Cabinet on Monday (November 2), will be intensive, personalised and will stretch across an 18-month period to include the winter months, and beyond.

Around 900 miles of Somerset's road network will still be gritted over the winter months despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Somerset County Council, which is responsible for highway matters, has published a map showing all the routes it intends to treat with its fleet of 23 gritters as the nights begin to draw in.

A second national lockdown is upon us, but businesses in the Shepton Mallet area are still providing a whole host of services for local customers.

At Shepton Mallet Nub News, we support local businesses so here is a round-up of the services being offered by a number of businesses in and around the town during the lockdown.

In the last week three councillors have resigned from Shepton Mallet Town Council, and now an extraordinary meeting will be held to fill their roles.

Those three councillors also held positions of responsibility within the council as chair, vice-chair and chair of the Human Resources Committee.

A new era in recycling is underway in Shepton Mallet, blazing a trail for other parts of Somerset next year.

Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) is thanking residents across Mendip for getting Recycle More off to a flying start last week.

Practice Plus Group Hospital Shepton Mallet is one of around just 10 clinical facilities in the country to have achieved silver accreditation in an internationally-recognised infection control regime.

The hospital, which was previously known as the Shepton Mallet NHS Treatment Centre, has achieved the silver accreditation in the Aseptic Non Touch Technique (ANTT), developed and disseminated by the Association for Safe Aseptic Practice (ASAP).

Temporary traffic lights are planned at a busy junction in Shepton Mallet this week before the lockdown begins.

Multi-way lights are scheduled at the junction of the B3136 West Shepton and Old Wells Road, outside of Barry Locke Motors.

Somerset Highways are reporting that they will be finished today (October 30) on resurfacing work - despite the weather conditions this week - on time on Prestleigh Hill near Shepton Mallet.

The highways team have been working on the road since October 26.

With the COVID prompted lack of community firework displays this year, there may be an increased amount of private back garden firework events planned around the start of November.

Although, the extent of the fireworks could be smaller, the disturbance to pets this year might in fact be greater, as pet owners may not be able to adequately prepare their pets from the loud noises and bright lights that can scare a large number of them. Pet owners may not be expecting informal events to take place next door or down the street without the advertisement that planned occasions normally provide, and pets could in theory suffer as a result.