The supermarket chain has put out a new list of stores and the areas it would like to open them in but it DOES NOT contain ambitions for the Somer Valley.

Aldi, which is offering a finders fee to anyone who can help it successfully find a new site, already has 960 stores across the UK.

What may have ruled out Midsomer and Radstock is that it wants sites of around 1.5 acres for the new builds.

In summer 2020 the town WAS in its planned expansion with 12 local stores in Somerset you can read our report HERE

The latest list of places it wants to have supermarkets are:

Aldershot

Allestree

Barry

Basildon

Bath

Birmingham

Bonnyrigg

Brentwood

Cambridge South

Cathcart

Cheadle

Chepstow

Chesterfield

Chesterton

Clarkston

Coventry

Crawley

Dorchester

Drylaw, Edinburgh

Formby

Gerrards Cross/Chalfont St Peter

Guildford

Harrogate

Ladysmill, Falkirk

Leicester Fosse Park

Lightwood, Stoke on Trent

Liverpool

Meadowhall

Newcastle Upon Tyne

North Leeds

Ossett

Otley

Oxford

Penwortham

Plymstock

Rayleigh

Runcorn

Saltash

Scarborough

Slough

South Normanton

St Albans

Sunderland

Torquay

Tunbridge Wells

Upton

Warrington

Warwick

Wellingborough

West Didsbury

Wigan

Wilmslow

Wombourne

Worthing

York

The supermarket even offers a finder's fee for people who recommend a site, including members of the public – which is either 1.5% of a freehold price or 10% of the first year's rent for leasehold sites.

 The company says it wants somewhere it can build a 20,000 square foot store with around 100 parking spaces, ideally near a main road with good visibility and access.