News in Midsomer Norton and Radstock

Jobs in and around Midsomer Norton right now.

The sign at the Midsomer Norton Lidl promises that from next March the supermarket chain will be paying a starter wage of £10.10 an hour.

Todd A Phillips writes:

Another year has passed, once again time escapes our grasp and it's strange to see it go with everything that has arisen. On a positive note, I'd like to finish my last article of 2021, and write about the origins of our beloved Christmas trees.

The development next to the new primary school in Midsomer has been reminded of the terms on which they can operate.

Midsomer Norton Nub News has been contacted by a concerned member of the public, following alleged breaches in the hours that heavy machinery is working on site, sometimes from 7am.

Families on low incomes struggling to pay their energy bills can now apply for a £250 grant from Bath & North East Somerset Council.

The council is providing pre-paid debit cards to vulnerable families this winter to help them meet rocketing energy costs.

People living in and around the village of Foxcote are being invited to an evening of Carols by Candlelight at St James' Church.

The annual event will feature a traditional presentation of Nine Lessons, which will explore the Christmas message, as told in the Bible.

The RSPCA has launched a Christmas appeal for help as the charity is braced for a surge of abandoned and neglected animals as pet ownership soared during lockdown.

Last December, the RSPCA still received one call every minute, one report of an abandoned animal every hour, and took 70 rescue animals into RSPCA care every day* - despite England and Wales having strict restrictions in place.

A special ceremony to mark the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland is taking place in Bath on January 27.

The Holocaust Memorial Day district-wide event for 2022 is being organised by Bath & North East Somerset Council in partnership with Bath Interfaith Group and takes place at the Guildhall.

Dancers say they were heartbroken to be "forced out" of a valued community space in Bath to make way for student housing.

Plans to redevelop Oldfield Park's Co-op store were approved last month despite residents "saying loud and clear that they don't want more student accommodation".

An appeal to find out more about this Radstock address which is shortly up for auction has revealed a remarkable commercial history.

Not so much what this Bath New Road building has been in the past, more like what it HASN'T been.

Metro Mayor Dan Norris has reacted with delight after the £50 million Green Recovery Fund that he pledged in his manifesto was voted through unanimously in a meeting of the West of England Combined Authority in Keynsham today (Friday 3 December).

An amendment by the unitary leaders seeking to link the Green Recovery Fund to a series of unrelated investment decisions was withdrawn after the Metro Mayor accused the leaders of a "form of blackmail". A new "no strings attached" amendment was accepted.