'IN THE Footsteps of the Romantic Poets' is helping children and young people to understand and connect with the landscape, taking inspiration from the Romantic Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William and Dorothy Wordsworth, who lived and wrote in...

WORK begins on five road resurfacing schemes in Somerset today (Monday, April 11).

The National Trust has lots activities happening at locations in Somerset to make sure you have a cracking Easter with the kids.

The Easter holidays are upon us and keeping the kids occupied is high on the agenda, but will it be a heatwave or washout – here’s the Met Office weather forecast to find out.

THIS is the moment police pulled over a motorist speeding at more than one and a half times the speed limit in a village near Bridgwater.

THERE was a lucky escape after a horsebox suffered a blowout on the M5 in Somerset yesterday (Saturday, April 9).

RESIDENTS in a rural community say a second solar farm in their community would have a "most disturbing" impact on nature on the Somerset Levels.

THE RSPCA has revealed it received 670 reports about rats last year as latest research shows insight into how pet rats are cared for.

A GORGEOUS 15th century property with a working watermill is for sale.

As the 2021/22 NBA comes to a close on April 12, fans can raise a glass in style with Hennesy's limited collector's edition. How to get yours.

See what's in the middle aisles of Aldi and Lidl on Sunday, April 10.

A TEAM of volunteer police officers from three police stations stopped a vehicle on the A38 in Somerset following a tip off from the public.

THANKS to Wessex Internet, Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance can now carry out their work to the optimum, with the help of a reliable, ultrafast and efficient internet connection.

BRIDGWATER motor mechanic Lee Johnstone made the trip to New York earlier this week to see the official debut of his Hot Wheels™ 1:64-scale die-cast of his 1969 Volvo P1800 Gasser.

A MAJOR housing development in Bridgwater will contain more than twice as many affordable homes as was originally proposed, writes Daniel Mumby, Local Democracy Reporter.

BELOW are planning applications received by Sedgemoor District Council between March 24 and March 30 2022.

Parents will know the struggle of keeping the kids entertained over Easter but LEGO is here to save the holidays. How to gets yours

The family of a Bridgwater man who died just six weeks after a shock cancer diagnosis are preparing to send him off in style with a motorcycle cortege.

SEDGEMOOR District Council, Somerset County Council, Somerset West & Taunton Council, and North Somerset Councils (the Joint Councils) have jointly agreed on a package of proposed measures to help minimise the effects of a rise in workers on the HP...

A FOOTBALL-focused weight loss programme has helped 250 men from Somerset tackle obesity and lose one tonne (1040kg) of weight last year.

FIREFIGHTERS from Taunton gave first-aid to four people involved in an accident involving two vehicles near Bridgwater last night.

SOMERSET residents will go to the polls in just four weeks to decide who will govern them at a local level until 2027, writes Daniel Mumby, Local Democracy Reporter.

TRAFFIC has come to a standstill on the M5 at Taunton following a four-vehicle crash.

A Somerset-based skills and learning company is hosting an Easter family fun day in Bridgwater on the Wednesday, April 20.

YOU can bag a free pair of limited edition slippers with your Sunday roast this Sunday (April 10).

CRS BRIDGWATER has donated a selection of timber and building materials to Hamp Nursery and Infants School.

THE number of unanswered police calls outside of the expected timescale has more than tripled in three years.

A WOMAN who helped her fraudster boyfriend rip off solar panel customers has been banned from running any other businesses.

THE Met Office has issued a yellow wind warning that will be in place until 6pm today (April 7).

PART of a Somerset hospital site could soon become a car valeting business if new proposals are given the green light.

POLICE are investigating a road rage incident in which a motorist was punched in the face.

PLANS to upgrade Somerset’s bus network have hit a snag over the government provided less than one-tenth of the required funding.

SOMERSET County Cricket Club begin their 2022 LV= Insurance County Championship season with a Division One match against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl today.

WORK will start in June on 78 affordable homes on a brownfield site in Bridgwater.

A BRIDGWATER man failed to comply with a community protection order in the town's McDonald's FIVE times.

The middle aisle is far too tempting and we can’t be blamed for bowing to the various temptations.

A RETIRED council official turned the clock back more than 400 years to get a taste of how an illustrious ancestor must have felt.

POLICE have appealed to the public to help them find a missing 14-year-old who was last seen in Dulverton yesterday afternoon.

A TEAM of three police officers returning from a training day today (Wednesday, April 6) couldn't resist pulling over a driver using a mobile phone on the M5 in Somerset.

TWO Bridgwater-based football teams are set to face each other in the men’s county cup finals tonight at the Athletic Ground in Wells - home of Wells City FC.

A CHARITY was pleased to see a ground-breaking bill, the first of its kind in the world, focused on improving the lives of those living with Down syndrome in England, successfully passed its third reading in the House of Lords.

SOMERSET County Council’s public health team is urging older and more vulnerable residents to take up the offer of a free, further Covid-19 booster vaccine.

FEWER staff at the Somerset Trust would feel happy if a friend or relative needed to be treated by the organisation, according to a survey carried out last year.

THE latest figures show an encouraging drop in the number of Covid-19 cases recorded in Sedgemoor.

HAYGROVE School has entered a competition to win a canopy worth £15,000.

SOMERSET villagers have been “stabbed in the back for the sake of sheer profit” by a housing developer, a local councillor has claimed.

A DEVELOPER near Bristol is making not one, but two attempts to build new homes on the former site of a Somerset primary school.

POLICE are appealing for information to locate 34-year-old Colin Cuddy who is wanted on recall to prison, after his license was revoked.

AN Avon and Somerset Police officer has this week been dismissed for gross misconduct.

The stars of Bridgerton's second season Simone Ashley and Jonathan Bailey will return. What we know so far.