News in Shepton Mallet

The police are investigating the cause of a fire at the Bell Hotel in Shepton Mallet early this morning (June 5).

Police were alerted to a fire at the Bell Hotel in Shepton Mallet High Street by Devon and Somerset Fire Service at about 5.30am today.

A planning application has been submitted for an extra Portakabin classroom to be installed at St Paul's Junior School in Shepton Mallet.

The application for temporary planning permission for the installation of a Portakabin to be used as additional classroom space for a period of three years at the school in Paul Street was submitted by head teacher Chris Partridge.

Three men have been charged in connection with a series of lead thefts from churches across Somerset, including from the Church of St Mary in Chesterblade.

In a joint investigation with Lincolnshire Police, the three men have been charged with conspiracy to steal between August 2018 and March 2020. The charge partly relates to 11 offences of theft from churches in the force area

Cycle routes in and around Shepton Mallet could be connected up or enhanced as part of council plans to cut car use and reduce engine idling.

Mendip District Council has drawn up a list of routes it wishes to improve as part of its strategy to make the district carbon-neutral by 2030.

Avon and Somerset Police are seeking witnesses to an assault in Shepton Mallet that left a man with a serious head injury.

The incident happened at about 11.15pm on Saturday May 23 in the Meadow Rise area of the town, near to Whittakers House.

Festival Medical Services, a charity based in Evercreech, has today (June 2) been honoured with the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service - the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK.

The charity's doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals, together with support staff, volunteer at music festivals, such as Glastonbury and Reading, and other high-profile outdoor events.

Building contractors Melhuish and Saunders are celebrating NHS and key workers by installing rainbow banners at their South West construction sites.

Following the discovery of political graffiti on site hoardings at the rear of the Avalon Plastics factory site on Street Road, Glastonbury, where Melhuish and Saunders are building a steel framed extension, managing director Darryl Mitchard responded with a positive NHS statement of his own.

The A37 through Shepton Mallet was closed for almost two hours last night (June 1) following a car crash.

Avon and Somerset Police were called to reports of a crash on the A37 Whitstone Road at about 8.15pm yesterday.

A woman from Shepton Mallet, who was director of a building company that left work unfinished and one person's home uninhabitable, has been sentenced following a Bath and North East Somerset Council Trading Standards investigation which led to the victims being repaid nearly £43,000.

Edward's Group Ltd found two homeowners on the council's planning portal who had planned building works and wrote to them offering its services, eventually taking tens of thousands of pounds from them without completing the work.

A new specialist dyslexia school is being developed in Somerset and the head of therapy, who lives in Shepton Mallet, says she is excited by the opportunities ahead for pupils.

Claire Thomas will be the head of therapy at The Levels School in Ashcott, which will open in September once it has received Department for Education (DfE) approval.