While the year has been marked by divisions and disagreements at international and national level - what everyone can agree is that 2020 has been quite a year.

The coronavirus pandemic has meant a huge change in how we live our lives, not just in Radstock but across a wider Somerset.

But aside from the ravages from coronavirus and the community coming together to fight it, the year has been full of things happening in the town, good and bad, and Radstock Nub News has been proud to be reporting them.

The biggest news of the year was probably that the redevelopment of the centre of town has been given the green light. The Radco store closed at the end of August. It will be replaced by a smaller store and, unpopular decision for many, more housing. You can read our report on it in June HERE : our site

Another breaking ground development, a new health centre, and again not without its critics. But the new Hope House Health Centre is already on its way. You can read about that by clicking HERE: the Nub News site

Somethings not going UP but DOWN in Radstock, the Walnut buildings. For many they are an eyesore, but when Nub News reported on their demise, many commented on how happy family memories had been made there. You can read our breaking news report HERE: the Nub site

Back before lockdown, how that seems a long time .. in February 2020 Radstock Town Council formally declared a climate emergency, click HERE for that : the Nub site

Which was very much welcomed by many in the town and something Midsomer Norton Town Council did NOT do. It meant councillors were clear about their intentions and fully opposed to the gas generator plans for an area close to Welton Primary School. For details on that campaign you can check out our sister site Midsomer Norton Nub News.

So the face of Radstock will be changing in 2021. But the strong sense of community will remain. One sign of that spirit is how the Miners' Wheel first got a well-deserved spruce up, then it became somewhere that residents showed their appreciation for the NHS.

But it wasn't only the wheel that honoured the continued hard work of the medics during the pandemic. The roundabout opposite the new small (temporary home) of the Co-op was home to nurse Emma. HERE our site

And later again in the year it was a group of committed and campaigning Radstock mums who stepped up and helped feed hungry children when the government resisted plans to extend the free school meal vouchers into the holidays. That report HERE : our site

Well done everyone involved. Wishing everyone in Radstock a happy and most importantly healthy 2021.