MORE than 30 beautiful gardens across Somerset are opening to visitors this summer in aid of St Margaret’s Hospice.

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.

ALMOST 5,000 children will be starting at the Somerset primary school of their choice at the start of the next academic year in September.

GRANTS up to £2,500 are now available for smaller charities, community groups, sports clubs and social enterprises in Somerset.

AN Audi driver from Chard has been ordered to pay £574 after he was clocked driving at 93mph on a dual carriageway in Dorset.

A SOMERSET man who was killed in action during World War II has been remembered with a new memorial installed in his home village, Isle Brewers.

A 10-YEAR-OLD has raised more than £1000 for Ukraine with an Easter egg hunt in two villages.

TATWORTH Beer Festival returned for its ninth annual event on Good Friday and Easter Saturday, featuring Somerset ales, a cider, and live entertainment.

AVON and Somerset Police have announced scores of locations where they will be siting mobile speed cameras at various times this week.

SOMERSET County Council has announced 16 roadworks schemes starting in the county this week.

A UKRAINIAN family and their British host are celebrating Easter with traditional cakes and countryside bike rides after a four-week wait for their visas.

FASHION Revolution Week 2022 takes place from 18th- 24th April. This year’s theme is MONEY FASHION POWER.

SOMERSET voters face a series of close battles for their support as the different parties fight for control of the new unitary council, writes Daniel Mumby, Local Democracy Reporter.

RECYCLING collection days in Somerset are set to change next week due to the Easter bank holiday.

BELOW are planning applications received by South Somerset District Council in the week of April 4, 2022.

HAMBRIDGE Primary School recently held a pudding-making competition to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee marking her Majesty's 70 years on the throne.

A “LARGE, unpopular and unwelcome” housing development in a small Somerset village has been struck down due to a lack of car parking, writes Daniel Mumby, Local Democracy Reporter.

CREWS tackled a fire that broke out in a Yeovil flat.

SOMERSET author Justin Newland will be giving a talk entitled ‘Whatever Happened to The Great Enlightenment’ at Yeovil Library.

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SOMERSET residents have a chance to win festival tickets by finding branded competition pebbles hidden around the county.

THE Welcome Bap, which is the coffee shop run by Chard Baptist Church, celebrated its 30th birthday recently.

A BIRDS of prey sanctuary has temporarily closed “due to the highly pathogenic Avian Flu outbreak”.

A HUSBAND and wife running a restaurant in the heart of the South Somerset countryside have unveiled exciting expansion plans.

A 16-YEAR-OLD air cadet will raise funds for a hospital that cared for his step grandad by taking part in this year’s Ten Tors.

A FORMER Somerset council officer who was accused of using public money on her private winery will face no further action from police, writes Daniel Mumby, Local Democracy Reporter.

THE NHS in Somerset is asking people to make sure they are prepared this Easter and choose the right NHS service for their healthcare needs.

NATIONAL Highways are pleading with tourists descending on Somerset and the South West to keep the region's roadsides clear of litter.

BONNERS of Ilminster has received national recognition after its peppercorn steak grill burger was named the best in its class at the Smithfield Star Awards.

SOMERSET residents planning to vote by post in the May 5th local elections have just a week left to submit their application.

ST MARGARET’S Hospice Care is encouraging people across Somerset to take part in The Colour Run helping to raise funds for patients across the county facing a life-limiting illness.

A BUSINESS in Ilminster is offering complementary foot checks as part of Foot Health Week 2022.

A WOMAN was sexually assaulted by two men at a popular beauty spot in Somerset.

POP into your local Morrisons on Good Friday and you could come away with a free hot cross bun.

SOMERSET West and Taunton​'s motorists will have two road closures to avoid nearby on the National Highways network this week.

A NEW driver has shed a spectacular seven stone after struggling to fit behind the steering wheel of her car.

A PASSENGER on a bus in Somerset sexually assaulted a woman he was sitting next to.

A CHARD School pupil was awarded his Certificate of Merit from The Child of Britain Association.

IT costs more than half a million pounds every year for police to enforce the badger cull in Somerset, writes Daniel Mumby, Local Democracy Reporter.

TRIBUTES have been paid to a “positive and joyful” councillor who represented Yeovil for the best part of two decades, writes Daniel Mumby, Local Democracy Reporter.

WORK to improve the appearance of Yeovil town centre has resumed – but the council won’t reveal exactly how soon all the aspects will be completed, writes Daniel Mumby, Local Democracy Reporter.

THE Coloured Horse and Pony Society (CHAPS) held its South West Regional show at Chard Equestrian Centre on Saturday, April 9.

PARENTS and carers are being urged to book primary school children in for their Covid-19 vaccinations over the Easter holiday.

A SOUTH Petherton man running 47 half marathons in as many days during Lent is looking forward to putting his feet up at Easter.

CASTLE Primary School's popular Easter parade returned to the streets of Stoke-sub-Hamdon after two years away due to Covid.

CREWKERNE & District Museum & Heritage Centre said a fond farewell to long-serving volunteer Simon Colledge.

A THREE-kilometre exclusion zone has been set up around a site in Somerset where a case of bird flu has been detected.

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.

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