News in Shepton Mallet

Tesco in Shepton Mallet is recruiting for a number of positions as demand surges under coronavirus restrictions.

The Shepton Mallet store has a mixture of full and part-time roles available, both permanent and temporary.

Aldi in Shepton Mallet is recruiting store assistants as part of an employment drive to help the supermarket chain keep up with demand in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.

The Shepton Mallet store is advertising for store assistants on permanent contracts with an hourly wage of between £9.40 and £10.41 per hour.

Somerset Community Foundation (SCF) has launched the Somerset Coronavirus Appeal to get vital funding to charities and community organisations that are helping the most vulnerable people during the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

The funds raised will help form the Somerset Coronavirus Response and Recovery Fund to ensure support swiftly reaches local charities and community organisations across Somerset.

Shepton Mallet has gone into effective lockdown this evening (March 23) following Prime Minister Boris Johnson's nationwide TV broadcast in which he laid down stringent new rules in a bid to battle coronavirus.

The lockdown was announced on the day the number of confirmed cases in the UK rose to more than 6,650, and the number of deaths reached 335, according to the latest figures available.

Shepton Mallet businesswoman Helen Lacey is inviting Somerset businesses to join her on an 8km assault course in aid of local charities to mark her year as chairman of Somerset Chamber of Commerce.

Helen, of Red Berry Recruitment, which is now part of the HR GO plc Group and has offices in Shepton Mallet and Yeovil, has organised the Chairman's Challenge in aid of local charities who are currently members the chamber.

Melhuish and Saunders, principal building contractors, have achieved successful completion and handover of a newly-refurbished premises on the Haskins Retail Park site to create the new Shepton Mallet Police Station, which is now open for business.

This comes at a time when there will be increasing pressures on all our public services as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.

A new recycling scheme in Shepton Mallet will still be rolled out on time despite the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

The Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP)'s Recycle More scheme will see refuse collections reduced to once every three weeks as more items can be recycled at the kerbside.

The founder of the Glastonbury Festival has lost this year's event – but he can build a new barn on his land.

This year's festival, marking the event's 50th birthday, has been postponed due to the coronavirus, which organiser Michael Eavis described as "a terrible blow".

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