SITUATED in a tucked away position, this superb detached property offers the best of both worlds.

HERE'S a look at the stunning Camera Club pictures featured this week.

During August and September wasps turn their attentions to sweet food making them much more of a nuisance.

Households will start receiving money off their energy bills from October, with the discount made in six instalments.

POLICE are asking people in four locations in Somerset to look out for a missing man.

POLICE believe a convicted rapist and kidnapper may be in Somerset.

THOUSANDS of people have signed a petition launched to get “the council to rethink the construction” of a relief road near Chard Reservoir.

Reports suggest Brits entering Spain may have to follow new entry requirements and prove that they can afford their stay.

Extra funding has been committed for the second time in six months to ensure a Somerset crematorium will remain fit for purpose in the coming decades.

Improvements to Yeovil town centre could be scaled back even further to ensure central government funding doesn’t have to be returned.

LADIES were challenged to walk two and a half miles each to raise funds for the Stroke Association or local stroke group but the Inner Wheel Club of Chard helped sponsor Desi Fradgley to walk a total of 60 miles.

POLICE are asking people in Somerset to look out for a convicted drug offender.

TWO campervans were completely destroyed and a barn was damaged by a fire that broke out in Sea, near Ilminster.

A FORMER Somerset newspaper reporter has become the first person to ever run the 299-mile Macmillan Way.

A FORMER police officer who used confidential systems to look up information about people they knew would have been dismissed if they hadn’t already resigned, a misconduct hearing panel concluded yesterday (Tuesday, August 2).

THE 16-year-old boy who died from stab wounds following an incident in Somerset at the weekend has been officially named.

ST John Ambulance is aiming to recruit hundreds of volunteer vaccinators in Somerset and the West Country to boost the population's Covid and flu immunity.

THE two politicians vying to be our next Prime Minister were in Somerset this week looking to drum up support for their campaigns.

POLICE are appealing for the public's help to track down a wanted Somerset man.

RURAL crime in Somerset cost an estimated £930,000 in 2021, according to insurer NFU Mutual's 2022 Rural Crime Report.

AN 18-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a teenager in Somerset.

EIGHT lock-up garages and an additional parking space in Yeovil have been snapped up at auction for £58,500.

DETECTIVES investigating the murder of a teenager in Somerset have made a third arrest.

A CHARD pub will be closed all day tomorrow (Wednesday, August 3) as family and friends hold a wake in honour of the former landlord.

An ancient Somerset oak tree has been felled to make way for a new slip road despite the best efforts of protesters over the past two weeks.

THE Queen's newly appointed representative in Somerset is "looking forward to giving something back to the country which has given me so much".

A CANCER support charity has been presented with a cheque for £2,200 after a successful Ilminster garden party.

A MURDER investigation has been launched following the death of a teenager in Somerset.

THE Body Coach, aka Joe Wicks, is taking ‘P.E with Joe’ on the road with MINI for the second year running to bring people together for wellness wins – staged as the ultimate event to get families feeling energised, mentally and physically.

RAPID reform is urgently needed to tackle the staff shortages which are crippling businesses across the UK.

BRITAIN’S Disabled Strongman competition took place in Chard last weekend.

THESE are the locations across Somerset where police say they are siting mobile speed cameras at various times this week.

JUSTIN Lowe, auctioneer and partner at Greenslade Taylor Hunt, reports another busy auction held at the Shrubbery Hotel, Ilminster.

BRAINWAVE charity shops in Somerset have issued an urgent appeal for donations of clothing, toys, books, and bric a brac to keep up with the demand.

THERE'S going to be traffic disruption in parts of Somerset as a number of major roadworks get underway today (Monday, August 1).

Ten famous faces you might not realise all went to school in Somerset.

HERE'S a look at the stunning Camera Club pictures featured this week.

THERE are no plans for a hosepipe ban in Somerset despite the above average dry spell.

KNOWN to date back to the early 16th century, Sea Mills Farm is an unusual property combining a farmhouse, mill and miller's cottage in a continuous row.

A VICTORIAN mobile photographer’s studio, which has spent most of its life on the Dorset coast at Swanage, is looking for a new home when it goes under the Charterhouse Auction gavel on Friday, August 5.

A SOMERSET mother-of-nine extracted gunpowder from hundreds of party poppers in a bid to make an "explosive necklace" to kill herself.

TWO Somerset betters hit debut County Championship tons in the drawn run-fest at Essex that ended yesterday (Thursday, July 28).

A 13-YEAR-OLD from Ilminster will represent Somerset in a national tennis competition in Wimbledon.

A MOTHER-of-three woman who killed her controlling boyfriend has been jailed for six years.

A prominent Somerset councillor has urged the government to step in and save an ancient oak tree which could be felled as part of a multi-million-pound dualling scheme.

A NEW ZEALAND artist discovered a box of old photos during the Covid pandemic that revealed a secret family tree with links to Somerset.

A SACKED Somerset officer has been barred from ever working for the police after it emerged he acted "inappropriately" with at least four female colleagues.

THE behaviour of some Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service staff gives "cause for concern", according to inspectors.

Nearly 100 new homes could be built a short distance from a Somerset railway station as part of the first phase of a major new development.

A TRACTOR has been destroyed in a fire on the A30 near Chard and Cricket St Thomas this morning.