Council tax operation change "madness"
Sending jobs to Coventry as the county recovers from a recession is madness, according to a local resident. On Monday the council tax billing operation transferred from Shepton Mallet to the...
£1,500 bill for boss who had radio playing in hair salon
The owner of a Wells hair salon faces a legal bill of more than £1,500 for having the radio on broadcasting music in his shop. A High Court music ban was imposed on Ray Brook,...
Appeal will take place over refusal of haulage yard plan
Skip hire operator Nick Moss says he will appeal against the refusal of permission to use land at Maesbury Camp, near Wells, as a haula...
Mufti event raised cash for Haiti fund
Pupils at Wells Blue School did their bit for the victims of the Haiti Earthquake this week. The School Council organised a mufti day,...
Vintage tractors taken by crane
Police in Wells are searching for thieves equipped with a crane who stole two tractors and a car from a field in Draycott. The vintage...
Bishop's Barn under discussion
The future management of the Bishop's Barn in Wells will be among the subjects up for discussion at the next meeting of the Central Mendip Community Partnership. The meeting will take place...
Children's centre will be finished three months late
Work on a new £300,000 children's centre for Wells will be completed by May, three months late. The ambitious project, which will house a creche and provide offices for a range of...
Somerset Rotary leader tried to kill model wife
Husband fell from being pillar of the community to attempted murderer plagued by debts
