• Points West film crew scouring Wells today

  By Wells_Jaqui

  Fantastic to hear that Wells City Council, in a meeting in Wells Town Hall last night, decided that...

            

   

  By Wells_Jaqui at 16:18 on 23/01/12

  

  Wells is often rather an exciting place to live. Today I happened upon a Points West camera crew who were looking for a special gate with a little bit of Olympic history linked to it. They were in search of the gate over which Mary Rand would hop over to reach the woods as part of her training. The interest in one of Wells' lesser-known attractions has been kindled by the national campaign to give the famous local athlete freedom...

• GEMS Scrapstore Now Operating Mendip Community Re-Paint Scheme

  By Wells_Jaqui

  What a great-sounding scheme, so we can pick-up Farrow and Ball paint for £1.50 a litre? Race...

            

   

  By stonesthrow at 15:36 on 27/01/12

  

  GEMS Scrapstore & Play Resource Centre, a charity which is based in Wells, has added another string to their bow. The Scrapstore provides a range of resources and materials to the community, which has been collected as waste from local businesses and is destined for landfill sites. This waste, which can include fabric, card, paper, foam, foil, plastic pots, tubes, nettings and all kinds of weird and wonderful stuff - is made...

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  By Wells Journal at 11:00 on 19/01/12

  

  A campaign has been launched to have 1964 Olympic gold medalist Mary Bignal Rand, who was born in Wells, awarded the Freedom of the City of Wells – an honour that has recently been conferred on HMS Somerset, Last Tommy Harry Patch, Archbishop George Carey and Wells Carnival stalwart Nancy Dodd. Should Mary Bignal Rand be given the Freedom of Wells? What do you think? Here are some comments from Facebook. Martin Coppell: I don't...

• Beast of Bleadney 'puma' seen by rally driver

  By BigCatHunter

  This looks as cat-like as any recent paw print (pug mark) which has appeared in the papers this...

            

   

  By Wells Journal at 08:00 on 21/01/12

  

  Is the Beast of Bleadney back? Last year there were numerous reported sightings of a big cat roaming the hills and levels around Bleadney and Henton, just outside Wells. Now one of the clearest sightings yet has been made by a rally driving team on the levels between Bleadney and Godney. Rally driver Colin Knott of Congresbury was taking part in a navigational exercise on Thursday night with his wife Jan as a co-driver. As they...

• 'A risk of re-offending if welfare payments change'

  By CocteauT

  Use some of the Churches great wealth if you feel so strongly about it.

            

   

  By Wells Journal at 11:00 on 19/01/12

  

  Changing welfare payments could force former offenders back into a life of crime, warned the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Rt Rev Peter Price used time in the House of Lords' debate over an amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill to point out that people could lose their independence by being forced into expensive temporary or institutional accommodation. The Bishop spoke in support of those who used the discretionary Social Fund...

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