Lulu Goad

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Multimedia Reporter at Tindle Newspapers Ltd.

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Wellington pop-up shop to welcome bicycle repair charity

5 days ago | wellington-today.co.uk | Lulu Goad

On Your Bike will be coming to Wellington's Pop-Up Shop next week (On Your Bike/Google Maps)A CYCLING charity which was founded in Wellington is set to come to the Fore Street Pop-Up Shop. On Your Bike, a Somerset-based cycling charity, will be offering free servicing all week at the town council’s Pop-Up Shop, from Monday, May 12, until Saturday, May 17. There will also be reconditioned and new bikes, parts, and accessories for sale.
Wellington honours 80th anniversary of VE Day

6 days ago | wellington-today.co.uk | Lulu Goad

WELLINGTON Town Council honoured VE Day with support from their town crier for the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. On the morning of Thursday, May 8, the Town Crier read out the official VE Day 80th anniversary proclamation at Wellington Monument. A two-minute silence was then held at midday in the town centre, when the Town Crier rang his bell to mark the beginning and end of the silence, reading the VE Day proclamation once again.
Wellington resident Grace Trovel celebrates her 100th birthday

1 week ago | wellington-today.co.uk | Lulu Goad

Grace Trovel with her birthday cake at Lodge Close (Tindle News)WELLINGTON resident Grace Trovel has celebrated her 100th birthday with music and a feast organised by the Wednesday Club at Lodge Close. Surrounded by her son, David, granddaughter Helen, and many long-time friends, Grace blew out the candles on her birthday cake on Wednesday, May 7, following her actual birthday on Monday, May 5.
Shoe repair service to return to Wellington from next week

1 week ago | wellington-today.co.uk | Lulu Goad

Essentials Express is set to play host to a shoe repair service from next week (May 12) (Tindle News)A SHOE repair service is set to return to Wellington next week following the closure of the South Street cobbler earlier this year. Also in the newsEssentials Express, located on the town’s High Street, will be playing host to a drop-off and pick-up cobbler service from Monday, May 12, which will be operated by Taunton’s Shoe Doctor.
Wellington enjoys sunny Spring Fayre - in pictures

1 week ago | wellington-today.co.uk | Lulu Goad

WELLINGTON’S Spring Fayre welcomed almost 3,000 people to the town park over the bank holiday weekend. With more than 70 stalls, the fayre offered visitors the chance to enjoy splat the rat with Wellington Monument Rotary Club, the popular tombola, and performances from the Boostrap Border Morris throughout the day on Sunday, May 4.
VE Day pen pals are writing to each other 80 years on

1 week ago | wellington-today.co.uk | Lulu Goad

Photo: Barbara Pearson and Marianne Duddilieu beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris in the year that they met, 1958 - the two were allocated to each other as pen pals on VE Day, 1945. This year, they celebrate 80 years of friendship (Barbara Pearson)TWO women, one English and one French, who became pen pals on VE Day are still writing to each other - 80 years on.
Businesses at industrial park face future of uncertainty amid M5 closures

1 week ago | wellington-today.co.uk | Lulu Goad

Foxmoor Business Park near the M5 junction 26 - business owners face a future of uncertainty (Tindle News)BUSINESS owners at a business park near the M5 say they face a future of uncertainty with fears of “financial hardship” and a drop in trade after plans were announced to close junction 26 near Wellington. On Wednesday, April 23, Somerset Council announced they would be closing the M5 junction to carry out refurbishment works to the junction’s roundabout and surrounding roads.
Local historian reveals history of Wellington prisoners of war

2 weeks ago | wellington-today.co.uk | Lulu Goad

Louise Winborn has revealed the history of German prisoners of war based at a Wellington camp in a newly published booklet (Tindle News)A LOCAL historian has revealed the history of German prisoners of war in Wellington in a newly published booklet. Also in the newsLouise Winborn, local historian and Wellington Museum steward, recounts the limited history of the Wellington Prisoner of War (POW) Camp, those that were kept there and ultimately stayed in the town.
Former Wellington pub to turn community centre

2 weeks ago | wellington-today.co.uk | Lulu Goad

The empty Kings Arms public house, Wellington. ( )A FORMER Wellington pub is set to become a community centre hosting a café, toddler groups, and a food bank to support the town’s most vulnerable. The High Street venue, The King’s Arms, will become a safe and fun space for children and adults around Wellington, offering a range of accessible services, beginning in July. The former pub closed in 2015 and remained empty until it was purchased by Falcon Rural Housing Ltd in June of 2021.
Wellington RSPCA charity shop to reopen after sudden closure

2 weeks ago | wellington-today.co.uk | Lulu Goad

Wellington's RSPCA South West Somerset charity shop is due to reopen after a sudden closure (Tindle News)A HIGH Street charity shop is set to reopen after a sudden closure earlier this month. Also in the newsThe RSPCA South West Somerset charity shop in Wellington’s town centre closed suddenly due to “essential and unexpected shop maintenance”, according to a sign in its window. Branch manager Natalie Heed has said that the closure was due to staff changeovers and to give the shop a refresh.