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Issue 344 – Vote for your Person of the Year!

The nominees for Frome Times’ Person of the Year 2011 competition have been compiled, and now Frome Times readers are being asked to cast their vote on who they think…

Issue 344 – Community projects receive £20,500

A young apprentice job and business fair, more allotments for the town and Frome Town Football Club will all benefit from the first funds to be donated by a company…

Issue 344 – £25,000 raised for new stand – final push now needed

FROME’S community has pulled together to help raise £25,000 for Frome Town Football Club’s new 250- seater stadium, with just a final push needed now to secure the last £2,000.…

Issue 344 – Frome library opening hours to be reinstated

FROME Library’s opening hours, which were slashed last October as part of a cost-saving exercise by Somerset County Council, are to be reinstated. The county council also announced the introduction…

Issue 344 – Mum calls on MP to protect meningitis care in NHS reform

A mum from Frome has met with local MP David Heath in Westminster as part of a campaign to ensure meningitis vaccination and care remains a top health priority in the…

Issue 344 – Harry’s Hydro open day

Harry’s Hydro Trustees held an open day on Saturday 7th January to show the progress of the new hydrotherapy pool next to Critchill School in Frome.…

334 – Concerns raised over town centre market day closure

A Mendip District Councillor has raised concern over an application to close Frome’s town centre to traffic in order to host market days.…

Issue 344 – PAC plans purple fundraiser

Staff and volunteers at Positive Action on Cancer have once again started planning their Splash of Purple fundraiser. Now an annual event, Splash of Purple includes local schools, businesses, clubs…

Issue 344 – Charity coffee mornings check out of library

A GROUP of fundraisers, who held coffee mornings for years at Frome Library, raising money for the local air ambulance, have been told that they will no longer be able to hold…

Issue 344 – The future of Britain’s high street – and Frome leads the way

RETAIL guru Mary Portas has released her independent review into the future of England’s high streets – and it looks like Frome is ahead of the game.…

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