News in Frome

Community organisation, the Frome Toy Library, is delighted to have been offered a place for its fundraising Toy Sale on Saturday 7th September at the Rotary Club Charity Shop in the Westway precinct.

Frome families can grab bargains galore with lots of pre-loved toys including games, toddler toys, soft toys and baby equipment like a baby bouncer and play gym all kindly donated to help this local resource continue its work.

Broadway in Frome is going to be closed for 10 days in November while the pavements are repaired.

The road will be shut from 8am to 5pm from November 11 to 22 inclusive, excluding weekends, to enable Somerset Highways to carry out structural maintenance of the footways.

Glorious food, drink, entertainment and, of course, plenty of cheese awaits visitors to this year's Frome Agricultural and Cheese Show on Saturday 14th September at the West Woodlands Showground. 

It's set to be a feast for all the senses with a huge food hall, arena attractions, shopping galore, music stage and cheese pavilion. 

A Royal Navy Bomb Disposal has attended Frome Recycling Cycling today (August 28) after a suspect item, believed to be a grenade, was found.

According to workers at the recycling centre, the item was found in a bag on top of a skip at the recycling centre, and it is currently not known who brought the device in. The centre was closed to the public and workers at around noon today.

Frome Recycling Centre has temporarily closed while a bomb disposal team makes safe what appears to be a grenade, which was brought in for disposal.

A spokesman for the Somerset Waste Partnership has asked people to check via the red button below for the hazardous materials recycling sites can accept and those – including explosives and ammunition – they cannot.

Frome Cricket Club 2nds endured a chastening leather-chasing afternoon on Saturday but fought valiantly to scramble 18 points against Burnham-on-Sea and head into a winner-takes-all final match of the season in second place.

On a day which at one point was in great danger of careering out of control, the Showmen managed to emerge just ahead of Long Sutton in the table.

Community members have pledged their support to the campaign to save Frome?s fire service from cuts, which they say could put lives, properties and firefighter safety at risk. Residents, alongside representatives from Frome Town Council and Mendip?District?Council, attended a public meeting last week, hosted by Frome?s firefighters to hear how the cuts would impact the […]

Councillors and staff at Frome Town Council have received life-saving defibrillator training from the Friends of Frome Hospital. The community defibrillator project, run by Friends of Frome Hospital, has seen no fewer than 23 publicly-available defibrillators (PAD) strategically installed around the local area. The vital equipment is available 24/7 to assist in the event of […]