Somerset News

New school nursery expansion to create 600 childcare places in the South West

Community hub at major Highbridge development could be scrapped

Somerset residents to be charged for using Dorset recycling centres

Somerset Council accused of double standards over Yeovil road repairs

Record number of Irish entries at British cheese awards in Somerset

Uninsured driver caught driving at 149mph on M5

Witnesses sought after high-value burglary at Yeovil builders’ merchants

Yeovil MP challenges Trump on remarks about dyslexia

Celebrating the rich flavours of the UK and Ireland's cheese industry in Shepton Mallet

Royal Navy monitors Russian warship and sanctioned oil tanker in English Channel

Car hits electricity pole in West Pennard as driver taken to hospital

Sir James Dyson becomes equal partner with Bruce Craig at Bath Rugby

£19 million secured for Birnbeck Pier restoration in Weston-super-Mare

Key road over Somerset Levels “at risk” of being lost to future flooding

Free smartphones offered to help North Somerset adults get online

South West mental health charity workers end strike after accepting improved pay offer

Woman dies after being found injured at house in Cheddar

Two-week-old baby’s murder in Yeovil hospital could not have been predicted, says report

Bridgwater MP opposes plans for solar farm near North Newton

South West flood defence boost as new £1.4 billion investment shields homes

Packsaddle Fields fenced off as legal battle continues over Somerset green space

Man dies in collision on A39 near Bridgwater

Trial date set for Somerset trans woman charged with multiple offences

No start date for ‘small fix’ to let buses access Bridgwater railway station

Birnbeck Pier wood to be recycled and turned into furniture

120 new homes planned at northern edge of scenic Somerset village

Work on crucial Crewkerne junction upgrade to begin after Easter

Man, 31, jailed after being found guilty of raping a child

34-year-old man jailed for raping woman in Somerset

CCTV images released as police investigate burglary in Pensford

£1 million rock armour project announced in Minehead

Engineers at Hinkley Point C to begin work on fish tunnel system

Somerset 'VIP' blood donor 'honoured' to help sick patients

Almost 100 arrested in South West drug and child exploitation sting

Tourism boosts Somerset with English Tourism Week celebration

Weston-super-Mare man jailed for possessing more than half a million indecent pictures of children