Somerset Council is significantly reduced its budget gap in the space of a few months - but more work will be needed before it sets its annual budget ...

Among the bank branches planned to close are 40 Lloyds bank branches, 14 Halifax location and 17 Bank of Scotland sites.

First-class train tickets, cream teas, tapas and tickets to see Yeovil Town Football Club were among the gifts accepted by ...

NEARLY 59,000 businesses have shut their doors for good in the first three weeks of 2026, a Sun investigation can reveal. The plummeting state of the British economy has been laid bare as an ...

A slew of charity shops have already closed, and more are to shut in 2026. Various reasons were given, with a major factor being cost.

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Heavy rain from Storm Chandra overnight has caused widespread travel disruption in the West with multiple flood warnings in place. Rail services in Somerset are suspended between Taunton and Castle ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

A proposed tidal barrier is to be made 32ft (10m) shorter to reduce costs following a review. The Environment Agency says the structure in Bridgwater, Somerset, will now be 49ft (15m) high but still ...

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