News in Shepton Mallet

Strode College, which attracts many students from Shepton Mallet, is celebrating another year of outstanding A-level and vocational results.

For the eighth consecutive year, Strode students have exceeded expectations. The college continues to be placed in the top 10 per cent (DfE league tables) of schools and colleges nationally for the progress its students make.

Avon and Somerset Police are appealing for the public's help following a series of suspicious fires in Shepton Mallet.

They happened between 31 July and 6 August in the Millennium Way and Nightingale Grove areas.

If you would like to find out more about how you can get the treatment you need without the wait, then there is the opportunity to meet Shepton Mallet NHS Treatment Centre team members at this weekend's Mid Somerset Show.

Experts from the hospital will be on hand to explain how you can exercise your rights as an NHS patient by choosing the hospital where you are treated, and swapping to a hospital with a shorter waiting list if you have been told you must wait longer than 18 weeks.

More than 5,000 complaints were made to Somerset County Council by residents and businesses in the county about potholes over the past 12 months, according to new Freedom of Information figures gathered by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

The FSB's national report revealed that local authorities across the country receive a complaint to fix a pothole every 46 seconds and also showed that the South West had the fourth largest amount of complaints of any region in the country.

Three people have been taken to hospital following a two-vehicle crash on Doulting Hill, on the edge of Shepton Mallet, this morning.

One fire crew from Shepton Mallet and one from Wells were sent to a report at 11.12am today (August 13) of a two-vehicle crash.

Shepton Mallet NHS Treatment Centre has appointed George Tamvakopoulos as its newest consultant orthopaedic surgeon.

This brings the total number of consultant surgeons with an orthopaedic speciality at the hospital to seven.

Endurance runners from across the South West will be heading for Shepton Mallet on 27 October for one of the most challenging 10k races on their racing calendar.

The race, which is the final fixture in the 1610 Race Series, will start and finish at Collett Park in Shepton Mallet.

CPRE Somerset's annual photography competition is taking entries until the end of September, and people from Shepton Mallet are being urged to take part.

The theme is Enjoying the Somerset Countryside, and the winner will receive a £100 cash prize.

Ride Your Bike to Work Day takes place on 15th August, designed to raise awareness of the health benefits of cycling.

Riding a bike is a great way to exercise, but if you've had knee replacement surgery how should you get back in to the saddle?

Shepton Mallet progressed to the next round of the FA Cup for the first time in several years after a 3-1 win in the Extra Preliminary Round against league rivals Cadbury Heath, with all the goals coming in an end-to-end first half.

The home side started brightly with Craig Loxton and Andy Martin going close from distance, and Jack Fillingham beating home keeper Oliver Jones, but not an alert defender who cleared the ball off the goal-line.