News in Glastonbury

An organisation in Glastonbury that is providing a vital service during the coronavirus pandemic has received hundreds of pounds from the local Lions Club.

Glastonbury and Street Lions Club has donated £400 to the Glastonbury Foodbank, along with both Street Foodbank and the Street Baptist Church Meals on Wheels service, who have both received the same sum.

The chief executive of the trust which runs St Dunstan's School in Glastonbury has released plans of how it may be re-opening.

Alun Williams, who is in charge of the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership, has written to parents and carers who will get letters today (May 19) and tomorrow outlining the plans they have for reopening.

One of the members of Glastonbury's 5G Advisory Committee has spoken out about why he resigned before the group's report was published.

David Swain was one of four members who resigned, claiming that scientific fact was not being acknowledged by some on the committee, but chairman Jon Cousins insists that he would have preferred if the quartet had stayed in the committee to help provide robust arguments.

A musician from Glastonbury has created a music video for the folk-rock band The Levellers and a number of introduction scenes for their upcoming DVD - using figures made of wooden pegs.

Nick Parker has created the video for a song that will be released later this year, so it is currently being kept under wraps.

A man was taken to hospital after an incident in Glastonbury High Street yesterday evening (May 15).

A number of police vehicles and medical crews were called to the incident at the bottom of the High Street in the early evening.

Avon and Somerset Police have confirmed that a man has died following a car fire in Glastonbury yesterday (May 14).

The police were called to the fire in Back River Drove at around 6pm yesterday, as was an air ambulance and fire crews from Street and Glastonbury.

A road in Glastonbury is set to be closed for roadworks, as crews step up their return to work following the easing of the coronavirus lockdown.

Cinnamon Lane is due to be shut for a day at some point between Tuesday (May 19) and June 1, depending on the roadworks crew's schedule which is being kept flexible at this time.

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Mendip District Council is to provide additional council tax reductions worth an extra £750,000 to hundreds of its most vulnerable people and households.

The aim is to ease the financial burden on those Mendip residents who are already in most need and unable to go to work, due to restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Red Lion in West Pennard will be expanding after planning permission was given by Mendip District Council.

The application for a rear single storey extension and internal alterations at The Lion At Pennard, Woodlands Road to Stockbridge Lane, West Pennard, was made by Mr and Mrs Tucker.