News in Frome

They are being careful not to overpromise when the 'plaice' might be ready, but Codswallop in Frome looked about ready to fry today (February 6).

The fish and chip shop favourite has been closed since an unfortunate accident meant that the front plate glass window was smashed by a reversing car.

The Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset is supporting The Queen's Green Canopy (QGC), a unique tree planting initiative created to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this year. The project invites individuals and organisations around the country to plant as many good quality trees as possible during the tree planting season, between October and March.

In December, members of Frome College's Eco Club planted 500 trees in and around the Old Showfield in Frome. This enabled the College to become part of the Queen's Green Canopy, and in turn earn a QGC virtual plaque and place on their map.

Local company Southwest Accelerator Ltd (SWA Ltd) is creating a green revolution in film making this May with the inaugural Frome International Climate Film Festival, aptly titled 'The Climates'.

The film festival will hold screenings from 2nd to the 6th May, the five-day event will show case locally made films with a green message. This will culminate on Saturday 7th May with The Climates awards ceremony. During the festival, the programme will also connect with film makers both nationally and internationally to create a global network of green film makers and supporters who all share the same passion about sustainability and green themes within films.

Local Frome residents who will be affected by the parking restrictions due to be implemented on Weymouth Road have mounted a campaign to challenge the decision. Representatives from surrounding streets met with Mendip Councillor Damon Hooten to hand over a petition, which has already garnered 282 signatures.

The petition states:

Frome enjoyed a spectacular drone show, thanks to the town's own special company.

Celestial, based out on The Butts in the town, produced an incredible light show in the skies over Frome on Halloween. Called Glow In The Park. A reminder of how THAT looked HERE : the Frome Nub News site

To celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this year Frome Town Council has set aside £15,000 for a project to commemorate the occasion. The jubilee marks 70 years of the Queen's service to the country and Frome residents have submitted ideas throughout January to go to a panel. These have now been shortlisted ready for you to have your vote in The People's Budget Jubilee Vote.

The panel which was made up of councillors, members of the Rotary and Inner wheel, and volunteer residents who looked at the 12 ideas submitted and had the difficult job of sifting through the suggestions. The criteria for putting the projects through were: do-ability, whether the project could be delivered within the budget and the time frame and were in the gift of Frome Town Council; equitability, how fair the project was in terms of access combined with the greatest benefit to all; and finally, how well a project fitted the brief, to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee.

Quick & Dirty – Engaging women in local politics. Elections are on the horizon in Frome. Frome Town Council and the new Unitary council are going to the polls in May. And as ever Frome needs more female representation to help run our brilliant town. We are calling this Quick and Dirty – Short notice event – because we have to move fast in order to encourage some fresh female voices to be part of the next generation of the group of people running our town on our behalf.

Come to Frome Town Hall on Tuesday 8th February, 7pm, for a cuppa or a glass and a pow wow.

Mendip has been recognised as a top ten District Council for its impressive performance in tackling climate change.

Campaign group Climate Emergency UK ranked Mendip an impressive 9th best District Council in the whole country.

Laura Kellaway, a member of the Residential Property Team at Thatcher + Hallam since 2013, has recently been promoted to the role of Team Leader.

Supervising Partner, George Persson said, "Thatcher and Hallam are very pleased to announce Laura Kellaway has been promoted to Residential Team Leader. We are delighted to welcome Laura into this role, recognising her superb technical abilities and experience, which have been an asset in guiding the department through the challenging COVID period."

Ten new native coppice trees have been planted by Thatchers Cider as part of the Queen's Green Canopy campaign to mark Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee.

Martin Thatcher and his daughter Eleanor Thatcher planted the trees, which are accompanied by a commemorative plaque, alongside the popular Strawberry Line and adjacent to the family run cider mill at Myrtle Farm in Sandford.