People across Somerset are embarking on a four-day celebration to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

WESTON College principal Dr Paul Phillips CBE has received an honorary knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

SEVERAL thousands cricket fans enjoyed perfect weather for Somerset's latest T20 Vitality Blast match yesterday evening (Wednesday, June 1).

FIREFIGHTERS rescue a 'home alone' dog from a fire while its owners were out of the house.

THERE will be major changes to recycling and rubbish collections across Somerset during the first two weeks of June due to the two Platinum Jubilee bank holidays.

BUSES of Somerset is making changes to many of its bus routes from Sunday (June 5).

Here's how much £25 can get you from Iceland's Platinum Jubilee party food and desserts range.

A DRAYTON man has won the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his work in founding the Country Food Trust, where he spent seven years as chief executive.

THE director of Glastonbury Abbey since 2013 has been awarded the MBE.

JANE Stoodley, from Glastonbury, has won the British Empire Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for her 38-year role as personal assistant to seven different principals at Strode College.

AVON and Somerset Police Chief Constable Sarah Crew wins the Queen's Police Medal for distinguished service.

DEVOTED Royalist Major Robert McDonald has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

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If you’re looking forward to the four-day Platinum Jubilee bank holiday weekend, you’re probably interested what the weather is going to be like too.

EDF Energy has ruled out postponing the shutdown of the Hinkley Point B.

AVON and Somerset Police is the only UK force answering at least 90 per cent of 999 calls in the national target of under 10 seconds, according to Home Office figures.

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Statistics released by the Home Office showed that only one police force answered 90% of 999 calls in under 10 seconds.

GLASTONBURY Festival fanatic Paul Jones discusses his book 'View From The Stage: 50 Years of Glastonbury by the People that Played' before this year's festival.

A TOTAL of 311 weapons have been taken off the streets of Avon and Somerset during a knife amnesty week this month.

BUSINESS Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is considering extending the life of the Hinkley Point B plant - but only if the nuclear power station complies with “safety certification”.

FURTHER details of a controversial development of 110 family homes planned on a town's "green lung" have been shown to councillors.

'A RIGHT Royal Jubilee Jam' is being held by the Morland Community Hub in Highbridge.

With the cost-of-living crisis continuing to cause concern for families across the UK, we have looked at the best ways to save money on your household appliances as part of our Your Money Matters campaign.

THE eat:Festival was in Burnham-on-Sea on Saturday, May 28.

POLICE are out in force across Somerset again this week checking on motorists' speeds.

AVON and Somerset Chief Constable Sarah Crew says she wants the force to be anti-racist - not simply not racist.

FIRE crews tackled a large fire started by a ruptured fuel tank on a boat at Laburnam House in West Huntspill yesterday (May 28) afternoon.

SOMERSET Chamber has helped the county’s businesses secure more than £2 million in Government funding to support young people into work and help firm’s find new talent.

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What better way to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee than with a terribly British afternoon tea - here are the best places to get one according to Tripadvisor reviews.

AN investigation by Animal Aid into a Somerset dairy farm has revealed the horrendous toll calf hutches play on the animals' mental wellbeing, as well as shocking physical abuse.

YEOVIL is the second easiest place in the whole of the UK to pass your driving test first time, according to a study.

NEXT weekend Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival’s ‘Jubilation’ entry takes part in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant in London.

THE new leader of Somerset County Council has promised a unitary authority to “care for all and listen to all our residents”, writes Daniel Mumby.

FOUR men have been jailed for a combined total of more than 40 years years after breaking into a Weston-super-Mare home in a bid to steal drugs and money from a dealer.

ANIMAL welfare campaigners have called on Somerset County Council to ban fox and deer hunting - including trail hunting - on its land, writes Daniel Mumby.

SOMERSET went into party mood on June 2, 1953, when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

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BILL Sivewright, CEO of Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance thanked the charity’s volunteers for all their hard work, dedication, and support in aid of the charity, prior to his retirement on June 21.

ASCENSION Day gave learners at the Kings of Wessex Academy the opportunity to restore a 139-year-old tradition to its full glory.

A MAN who sadly died following a collision between two HGVs on the M5 between Burnham-on-Sea and Weston-super-Mare has been named.

A YOUNG man who committed a number of car key burglaries in rural parts of Somerset has been jailed.

POLICE are appealing for the public's help to find a woman who has been missing for 10 days.

Do as the Royals do this Platinum Jubilee with these luxurious experiences from Virgin Experience Days.

Iceland has launched its party food and desserts range that is perfect for your Platinum Jubilee Street party.

LIBERAL Democrat councillor Bill Revans has been confirmed as the new leader of Somerset County Council.

POLICE have been granted a closure order at a property in Weston-super-Mare that was being used as a base for drug dealing.

Pret A Manger has released their new spring menu - so we just had to go a long and see what we thought.

AN agricultural expert is urging walkers and farmers to protect themselves from the risk of cattle attacks.