Somerset Council has announced that Allerford Road, which runs through the parishes of Norton Fitzwarren and Oake, will be closed to all traffic from Monday, June 16 to Friday, June 20.

BizFest 2025, Somerset County's largest business expo, will be held June 16 at TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater from 2 to 5 p.m.

Drop-in sessions will be held in Wheddon Cross, Holford and Allerford in June. Ms North added: "We hope to explain how landowners can aid the recovery of pine martens and how to mitigate any ...

Somerset's Todd Costa won election to the Board of Selectmen in April. Citizens who support his opponent, Tom Mello, have said Costa is not fit for office and protested outside a meeting.

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A SOMERSET pub near Tauntonhas officially opened a brand-new play park to its garden today (Friday, March 21). The Allerford Inn, near Taunton, has completed the building of the new play facility ...

Originally, Somerset counted close to 11,500 trucking trips down to Brayton Point in violation of a cease-and-desist order. The new number rests just above 11,000.

Work on a £2m flood defence system for a Somerset village began on Friday. The village of Hillfarrance has a long history of flood problems. There was serious flooding affecting homes in 1984, 1985, ...

Navy Capt. Michel Brandt, commanding officer of the amphibious transport dock USS Somerset, has been fired after an investigation “due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead the crew ...

Navy Capt. Michel Brandt was relieved as commanding officer of the amphibious transport dock Somerset on Thursday. She is shown here in September. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Connor ...

Planning committees are made up of elected councillors, but the decisions they make should be decided based on the council’s planning policies, not local politics. Somerset Timber Services Ltd., ...

Michael Eavis, now 88, hosted the first music festival in 1970, which now attracts more than 200,000 people globally and the world’s largest performers to Somerset. His knighthood, for services to ...