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 struggled to locate a car that shot off the road and rolled down a bank with the driver trapped inside.

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.

Aldi Action Air Bouncy Castle is the ultimate way to keep the kids entertained over Half Term and into the summer holidays.

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

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

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.

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

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.

RESIDENTS have replaced a Jubilee decoration after it disappeared from a pillar box.

The A303 Cartgate Roundabout has re-opened after it was partially blocked this afternoon following an incident heading westbound.

POLICE are trying to track down the person or people responsible for a spate of vandalism in Ilminster Recreation Ground.

POLICE have issued a driver with a traffic offence report (TOR) after they were spotted with a “seriously dangerous load” near Langport yesterday (May 31).

Keep cool and have fun over the Jubilee bank holiday with the addition of a swimming pool, plus lots more outdoor additions to get your garden ready for the celebrations.

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.

The delivery of a major new employment site on the edge of Taunton will still take place even if amended plans to dual the A358 are approved.

POLICE officers are investigating a break-in at a school in Thorncombe where a fire door was reportedly forced open, triggering the intruder alarm.

A MAN from Chard has qualified to represent Great Britain with his German Shepherd at a dog training competition in September.

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.

A SOMERSET music festival successfully held its first event at its new home at the end of May, almost three years after it was last able to host live music.

COUNCIL staff in Somerset became embroiled in “gang-related violence” at a Yeovil café last year, officers have revealed.

Marks & Spencer’s popular Summer Beauty Bag is coming back in time for sunny getaways.

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 VIOLIN and piano duo will play in South Somerset in July.

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

A FLOWER festival has raised funds for two good causes in Chard.

ON the last day of half-term, children at Tatworth Primary School held a Jubilee Bonnet and Hat Parade as part of their Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

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

POLICE seized an uninsured vehicle in Ilminster over the weekend.

An exclusive range of Jubilee-themed cards will be available from Moonpig.

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

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.

If you’re a betting person, you might be interested to learn the TA postcode has been named among the luckiest - see where it ranks here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The A30 Mangle Cave Hill is closed in both directions in Roundham (near Crewkerne) following an incident, according to Travel Somerset.

A SHOP has donated a fantastic £760.60 to Chard Hospital League of Friends.

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

When the incredible garden bar was first in stock, it sold out within 72 hours so you shouldn't delay if you fancy one of your own.

A HISTORIC plane that suffered engine failure crash landed after hitting a telegraph pole and narrowly missing a house, a report has revealed.

WORKS to repair a street light cable fault on the A358 have been completed.