• £90k plan for solar panels at Cheese and Grain is given approval

  By Toby35

  Going by Google earth the Cheese & Grain roof face the wrong way, they face east west. Solar...

            

   

  By Somerset Standard at 08:00 on 04/02/12

  

  Frome Town Council has agreed to give £90,000 to the Cheese and Grain to buy solar panels, despite opposition from several councillors. The decision was made at the full council meeting held last Wednesday evening. The installation would use photo-voltaic panels to produce electricity for the building and for export to the National Grid, under the Feed-In Tariff scheme. Currently anyone who sells electricity they generate...

• Longleat, near Frome, bans walkers & cyclists?

  By Chalkie1

  This is a PR disaster locally for Longleat and Lord Bath. I urge them to reconsider this policy.

            

   

  By LoveFrome at 10:23 on 04/02/12

  

  Longleat is a favourite local haunt for Frome people, and we have a fine collection of photographs of the Estate & articles on Frome People here. Security Guards around the grounds are now challenging walkers & cyclists, preventing them using the land for casual dog-walking or cycling. The grounds include access for Sustrans Route 24 of the national Cycle Network, which connects Longleat to Frome & on to Radstock. See the...

• Frome snow - useful advice

  By LoveFrome

  More advice on preparing for travel from the BBC -

            

   

  By LoveFrome at 08:42 on 30/01/12

  

  Are we ready in Frome? Probably ..... The highway depot on the Marston Trading Estate in Frome is where a 1,000-tonne pile of salt sourced from Cheshire is stored and three of the 23 giant gritting lorries wait on standby. More here. The snow patrol as described in this somerset standard article has been given little support by the people of Frome, so perhaps you could volunteer? - see the story here. Where do you find information...

• Groups unite for meeting on fracking

  By Nawaralsaadi

  The solution for fracking pollution is waterless fracking; Gasfrac has done over a 1000 fracks with...

            

   

  By Somerset Standard at 11:00 on 02/02/12

  

  On Friday, February 10, Sustainable Frome will co-host a public meeting with Frack-off, a national campaign organisation, on the subject of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. Fracking is a controversial new technology which, according to campaigners, has been shown to have had dire environmental consequences in the US and which now threatens areas of the UK, including the Mendips. In December members of Sustainable Frome...

• MARKET SPECIAL: Views on proposed move to town centre

  By reader35

  The article states "Since Councillor Sharon Snook informed the people of Frome what has been...

            

   

  By Somerset Standard at 11:00 on 26/01/12

  

  The move to close the town centre two days a week and move the market stalls there has caused uproar among the people of Frome. Since Councillor Sharon Snook informed the people of Frome what has been going on she has had letters emails, phone calls and conversations – and none were positive. The myth that the market is in decline is exactly that. The market suffered with the removal of the Bailey bridge and the installation...

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