News in Glastonbury

Tales of the unique community of Somerset have been unveiled in new book called Deepest Somerset - the proceeds from which will benefit three local charities.

The book, written by Fanny Charles and Gay Pirrie-Weir, has an introduction by His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, and has been funded by Lord Rothermere's Rothermere Foundation.

If you have a keen interest in construction, then there may well be a job for you in Glastonbury.

The building contractors Melhuish and Saunders are looking for Multi-skilled and Non-skilled Site Operatives to join their team, based out of Landmark House on Wirral Park Road.

Somerset waste collectors are suffering from low morale – because the amount of waste they collect each week has increased by 20 per cent.

The Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) is preparing for the next phase of the roll-out of Recycle More, under which more items are recycled at the kerbside and refuse collections move from fortnightly to once every three weeks.

Students and teachers at St Dunstan's School in Glastonbury have come together to form a running club to boost their physical and mental health.

While the country was in lockdown, a group of teachers at St Dunstan's took to running regularly - both for physical exercise and to foster good mental health.

Every one of Somerset's 16 recycle sites, including the one in Street that serves Glastonbury, will go over to their winter timetables from Friday October 1, with weekday opening hours of 9am to 5pm while weekends remain 9am to 4pm.

Summer hours - 9am to 6pm when sites are open weekdays, 9am to 4pm weekends - resume on Friday April 1 2022.

Somerset residents have been given the first glimpse of how the electoral map of their county could change shape by next year's local elections, with alterations possible in Glastonbury.

Work is under way to create a new unitary authority to replace Somerset County Council and the four district councils by April 2023, following a decision by the government in July.

A planning application has been submitted to officially allow a caravan on the edge of Glastonbury to be permanently used as a residential home.

The application for a certificate of lawful existing use of the caravan for residential purposes on land at Cooks Corner, Green's Drove, Glastonbury, has been submitted to Mendip District Council by Mr C White.

Commercial businesses selected for a new Mendip "revitalisation grant" will be given specialist 1-2-1 advice to advance their promising project ideas.

Mendip District Council recently announced it would be offering the grant to boost businesses in the district and is inviting local firms to apply for the funding to help ease the challenges of a post Covid-19 and Brexit economy.

Calling all voluntary, community or not-for-profit organisations, city, town, and parish councils - you are urged to step forward and apply for funding from Mendip before the September 30 deadline.

Mendip District Council's Communities Fund and Climate and Ecological Emergency Fund were launched in August.

A new race appeared on the local road running scene on Sunday, when Mendip Athletics Club organised the Glastonbury Levels 10K out of Strode College in Street.

The course had been used back in May as a Covid compliant alternative to the traditional Round the Tor event that the club has organised for the last 20 years, and so the marshals and officials had had some practice and the event went ahead smoothly.