News in Radstock

Peasedown St John's Community Trust is looking for new Trustees to join its Management Board.

Established last year in the wake of the first lockdown, the Trust is an amalgamation of several community projects that have joined together to form one united charity.

More than £8 million in grant support has been paid out to businesses in Bath and North East Somerset that have been forced to close in order to comply with Covid-19 restrictions.

Bath & North East Somerset Council opened up its online form for businesses to apply for the Local Restrictions Support Grant Addendum last Friday (January 22).

Record amounts of recycling and waste have been collected in Bath and North East Somerset over the Christmas period.

Residents are being thanked by Bath & North East Somerset Council for contributing to an extra 363 tonnes in total recycling and 84 tonnes in food waste alone compared to the same period in the previous year.

For several years, Cllr Karen Walker has been campaigning to make sure Peasedown St John's pavements and pathways are more user friendly for everyone, especially wheelchair and scooter users.

Council chiefs have denied claims they put "profit before health" after it continued to charge people to use a car park near a coronavirus vaccination centre in Bath.

Thousands of people a week are getting the Covid jab at the Pavilion, but GP Sharon Gillings warned that any supposed barrier could put some vulnerable residents off attending.

A former GP in Taunton has been appointed as the new curate for a group of rural Anglican churches.

Detectives are investigating a serious sexual assault which happened in Radstock on Monday (25 January).

The victim, a teenage girl, was assaulted by a man on Kilmersdon Road sometime between 7pm and 8pm.

Local law firm Thatcher + Hallam has been watching the pilot of the e-scooter hire scheme in nearby Bath and Bristol with interest.

The trial has been in place now for around three months and appears to be a real success. But what are the rules and laws surrounding the use of private e-scooters and rental e-scooters, and what should you do if you find yourself involved in an e-scooter accident? Lauren Martin (GCILEx) from the Personal Injury team at Thatcher + Hallam explains here.

In his regular column for Radstock Nub News, the local MP Jacob Rees Mogg writes:

This week, I received confirmation from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment that two more centres have been opened in and near to North East Somerset to deliver the Coronavirus vaccination.

An organisation representing hundreds of residents across Bath is calling for "draconian" counter-terror proposals to be put on hold.

Justin Draeger, who chairs the Federation of Bath Residents' Associations, said the "deeply unfair" proposals could drive residents out of the city centre, leaving properties in the World Heritage City to deteriorate.