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Somerset taxpayers may have been conned by Europe-wide truck cartel claims waste authority

By Tim Lethaby

27th Sep 2020 | Local News

Bins and stacked recycling boxes (Photo: Somerset Waste Partnership)

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 benefits from NFU Mutual donation

By Tim Lethaby

20th Sep 2020 | Local News

PROMISEworks had success at the Somerset Unsung Hero Awards back in March

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.

Tickle your tastebuds with chef Olia Hercules at Wells Festival of Literature and eat out with offer

By Guest

19th Sep 2020 | Local News

Summer Kitchens by Olia Hercules (Photo: Olia Hercules)

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.

Here is what you can and can't do on the school bus as pupils return to school in Somerset

By Tim Lethaby

11th Sep 2020 | Local News

Pupils catching the school bus have strict guidelines to follow (Photo: Geof Sheppard)

Children using school buses will have to follow strict guidelines in the weeks ahead as lessons resume under the 'new normal'.

Somerset County Council has published guidance as to how primary, secondary and college pupils should behave when using school buses or coaches on their daily journeys.

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