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Work starts today (Monday 30 January) on the sixth project within Weston-super-Mare’s High Street Heritage Action Zone Shopfront Enhancement Scheme, managed by North Somerset Council.

North Somerset Council is celebrating results seen from its rewilding work thanks to information gathered by ‘rewilding champions’, a project delivered by Avon Wildlife Trust and funded by £100,000 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

North Somerset Council has planted an English oak tree to commemorate the country’s longest reigning monarch.

For the first time, residents in North Somerset will need to show photographic ID to vote at this year’s local elections. Residents are being urged to make sure they are ready to vote in May by checking they have an accepted form of ID.

A £310,000 package of council tax discounts has been proposed by North Somerset Council today to help the area’s most financially vulnerable residents pay their council tax amid the ongoing cost of living crisis.

Worle Village Primary School has achieved a Bronze award for their school travel plan.

Weston-super-Mare is set to benefit from a £20 million investment from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund following a successful bid by North Somerset Council as part of the authority’s ambitious placemaking vision for the town.

North Somerset Council has announced that Backwell Recycling Centre will remain open next year as it scraps a budget saving proposal to close the facility from 1 April 2023.

Retailers and licensed premises selling age-restricted items can access a year’s subscription to ‘No Proof of Age No Sale’ sales training and resources, thanks to North Somerset Council’s trading standards team.

North Somerset Council is once again thanking residents for thinking about their carbon footprint over the festive period.

In a North Somerset Council meeting held yesterday (Tuesday 10 January), councillors agreed for plans to progress which would see the Castlewood site in Clevedon demolished to make way for a residential-led scheme.

Protecting services for the most vulnerable and continuing to deliver quality services fit for the future while still facing increasing budget pressures was discussed by North Somerset councillors yesterday (Tuesday 10 January).

Construction of the second site of Baytree School in Clevedon reached a major milestone on Friday, as pupils joined North Somerset Council and project contractors, Willmott Dixon, for a ceremony to mark completion of the building’s steel frame.

A monthly peer-support group is available to people from across North Somerset who have been impacted by suicide.

Children aged three to four (and their adults!) are invited to an audience with Tom Percival, the author of many bestselling children’s picture books.