News in Midsomer Norton and Radstock

A local Radstock Museum volunteer is appealing to families to help in his research into local war heroes.

Nick Waton wants to keep their names and stories in the museum archives.

A local Radstock Museum volunteer is appealing to Midsomer Norton families to help in his research into local war heroes.

Nick Waton wants to keep their names and stories in the museum archives.

RADSTOCK BRIEFING: Thursday April 2

The Post Office inside the Radco store now has new temporary hours. It is open from 10am until 3pm.

MIDSOMER NORTON BRIEFING: Thursday April 2

The local fresh food distribution company Cam Valley Foods is thinking of starting a fresh delivery date to Midsomer Norton residents. Watch this space; meantime they will deliver directly to the vulnerable and the old. You can contact them on social media.@camvalleyfoods12.

Businesses which need to access urgent financial help from the Government due to Coronavirus can do so from today by using an on-line form set up by Bath & North East Somerset Council.

The council's Invest in Bath business support service has a dedicated team to give targeted help to companies during the pandemic and the new online form aims to speed up the process so that most payments will be made within weeks.

There's never been a better time to immerse yourself in learning something new or improving the knowledge and skills that you already have. And Somerset Skills & Learning, (SS&L), have made it easier for you by offering distance learning courses free to anyone 19+ who has lived in the EU for at least three years.

Their online courses are the perfect opportunity to begin studying a new subject or to improve your knowledge and skills at home. You can start your course at a time that's right for you, study at your own pace and adapt it around your other commitments. Plus you'll have the support of SS&L's expert local tutors over the phone and online.

The Screwfix store in Westfield wants customers to know that it is changing its opening hours during the lockdown.

Its new opening hours will be from 8am until 5pm every week day and from 9am until 4 pm on a Saturday.

Local solicitors Thatcher + Hallam have set up an advice helpline service to both commercial property landlords and tenants whose businesses are facing a significant impact as a result of the COVID-19 virus.

'All of the businesses that I speak to both here in Radstock and in the surrounding areas are of course concerned at what is happening as the situation changes on a daily basis. Things are moving very quickly, including the recent government announcement regarding missed rental payments. Everyone with commercial premises or a business lease is worried at what might happen.'

A total of four police vehicles arrived in Westfield this morning (April 1) with officers keen to stress it was a sign of them doing their "day to day work."

The officers were called in to help with an on-going incident, which started when a PCSO stopped a suspect on the street close to the Westfield Industrial park.

Radstock's world class dance school, which is naturally closed during the coronavirus crisis, has been busy creating new ways of bringing what they do to the outside world.

Sue Hill's dancers have been busy in the studio filming an incredible dancing library and now you can access it to keep dancing at home.