News in Radstock

A long-lost Bristol train station that shut 50 years ago could be reopened under ambitious plans for the region's rail over the next decade.

Campaigners including MP Kerry McCarthy are celebrating after St Anne's Park station in Brislington received up to £50,000 from the Government to begin the process of restoring it back to life.

Looking ahead to next year, this is an interesting course.

In February 2021, Somerset Skills and Learning will be offering a FREE ten-week British Sign Language course to B&NES and Somerset residents.

In his latest column for Radstock Nub News the Mayor, Rupert Bevan writes:

Whilst many of us are 'confined to barracks' awaiting the next development in the complex Covid-19 saga, time we have, thrust upon us, to consider many things. Unlike Lewis Carroll's walrus, our thoughts won't be turning to cabbages and kings and whether pigs have wings, but the more prosaic questions concerning Radstock and our future in the town.

Back in the late summer earlier this year, local solicitors Thatcher + Hallam announced that for the year 2020, they were going to nominate their chosen Charity of the Year, Dogs Friends, as the beneficiary of their Wills Month in October. Briefly, under this scheme, the firm of solicitors charge just £125 (plus VAT) for a single Will and £175 for a joint Will. The firm then donates the same amount (50% of the Will costs but exclusive of VAT) direct to Dogs Friends.

Laura Ablett is a solicitor and partner at Thatcher + Hallam and a specialist in the drafting of Wills.

Securing income for council services, more homes and tackling the climate and ecological emergency have been set out as key criteria for a review of the Bath & North East Somerset Council's £500m property estate.

In a cabinet report, Bath & North East Somerset councillors are being updated on the key impacts of Covid-19 on council income from its commercial estate- with £6.6m less income than expected received from April-October 2020 as a result of the pandemic, and commercial estate "voids" increasing to 7.6% in the same period.

Magistrates have agreed to extend a closure order against an address in Keynsham to help prevent the community being subjected to antisocial behaviour.

The Curo-managed property in Augustus Avenue had people attending at all times of day and night, drug use, targeted abuse, noise nuisance and criminal damage. Residents felt intimidated and scared; with one neighbour stating the impact of the behaviour was so detrimental she could no longer have family members visit her home, when permitted as per COVID regulations.

In planning news in and around Radstock this week.

The application to cut down an Ash tree at The Hollies, on the High Street, Midsomer Norton, has been approved.

Churches across Bath and North East Somerset have teamed up during December to put together the area's first ever 'Christmas Carol Trail'.

26 churches across the local authority have created window displays – depicting a different Christmas Carol each time.

Season's greetings to you all!

My hopes are that you have all stayed safe and well during November's lockdown. I myself have come to share some Christmas spirit with you for this month's article, I hope you enjoy!

Waste and recycling collections across Bath and North East Somerset will change temporarily over the festive period.

Residents will soon receive a leaflet from Bath & North East Somerset Council advising them of collection dates over Christmas and New Year, along with details about how they can recycle their real Christmas tree.