News in Shepton Mallet

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has now announced that 11 charities in the Wells constituency, including ones in Shepton Mallet and Stratton-on-the-Fosse, have received a combined total of more than £196,000 to help their crucial work continue, despite the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.

Wells MP James Heappey has said this money will be a "lifeline" for these charities and those that they help.

Musicians at Millfield Prep School in Edgarley have performed and sent a virtual concert to ten care homes in the area, including in Shepton Mallet and Oakhill.

Musicians at Millfield Prep recorded a concert especially for residents in care who have been missing family and friends due to the current restrictions.

New national business grants are being made available to support those in Shepton Mallet affected by the recent lockdown period.

They are the Local Restrictions Support Grant (LRSG) and the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG).

"Don't suffer behind closed doors" – that is the message for victims of domestic abuse in Shepton Mallet from Somerset County Council, who are working closely with partners to make sure services continue during the new lockdown.

The council's domestic abuse campaign, #NoClosedDoors2020, is spreading the message that restrictions imposed because of the pandemic may heighten tension and increase domestic abuse – for some people home is not always the safe place it should be.

In an effort to help our readers who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis, we have compiled a list of jobs currently available in Shepton Mallet to give you a helping hand in your job hunt.

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More people could be treated in their own homes or designated "frailty units" this winter to relieve pressure on the NHS during the ongoing pandemic.

The Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which is responsible for allocating the county's health resources, has published its plan for how hospital services will cope with additional demand over the winter months.

Somerset taxpayers may have paid £1.5 million too much for bin lorries because of an European cartel, the county's waste partnership claims.

The Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) is to take part in a group legal action against a number of companies which manufactured waste trucks between the late-1990s and the early-2010s.

With the lockdown restrictions easing, at Shepton Mallet Nub News we want to help you publicise your sports teams and individual achievements.

Whether it is a friendly fixture, a fundraising event, match reports throughout a season, or just advertising looking for players, we want to feature it on Shepton Mallet Nub News.

Chef Olia Hercules will let you into the secrets of Ukrainian food in her new book Summer Kitchens, where she shares some of her favourite recipes.

In conversation with Caroline Waldergrave, at the Wells Festival of Literature Olia will transport you to summers spent with parents, grandparents and friends in the Ukraine.