CHAMBER'S INDEPENDENCE DAY
Chew Valley’s business community will start the New Year by forming an independent Chamber of Commerce, which will give the area its own distinctive voice. The decision was made at a well attended Annual General Meeting of the existing Chamber, which was set up two years ago as a sub-branch of Norton Radstock. Now the child has outgrown its parent by attracting more than the seventy members. The potentially controversial question about whether the new Chamber should be affili