News in Street

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has now announced that 11 charities in the Wells constituency, including two in Street, 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 Street.

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 Street affected by the recent lockdown period.

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

The first week of Street's new Recycle More service generated an extra 38 tonnes of recycling across Mendip, initial figures have shown.

The statistics include nine extra tonnes of plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays, which equates to roughly 200 cubic metres – more than the size of two double-decker London buses.

Greenbank Pool in Street is normally a seasonal pool but this year it has been in "maintenance mode" for the whole summer.

This has involved the usual cleaning, painting and filling of the two pools. However, this year the team have been able to correct small leaks and seal up any cracks with the help of Onsite, a company which specialises in repairing drainage infrastructure.

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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.

Baltonsborough charity PROMISEworks has been chosen, along with fellow local group Connect Elim, to receive a donation of more than £1,500 from NFU Mutual agents and their staff at the Wells agency, from a national £1 million Agency Giving Fund launched by NFU Mutual's head office.

In light of the national emergency this country is facing, NFU Mutual, the UK's leading rural insurer, allocated £1 millionto help local frontline charities at this difficult time.

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.