Closer to the heart of Somerset's heritage, the Somerset Beer & Cider Festival arrives at the County Ground in Taunton on 8 August, offering more than 100 brews alongside live music and entertainment.

Somerset's high streets have been hit hard by a wave of shoplifting, with new figures showing the scale of the crisis across Street, Glastonbury, Shepton Mallet, Frome and Wells. Last year, Avon and ...

Street and Glastonbury: spared – but not untouched. Not everywhere was equally affected. In Street, remarkably, no clergy deaths were recorded during the 1348–49 outbreak – an anomaly in the diocesan ...

Somerset Council has announced a series of temporary traffic measures and local traffic advice to manage congestion and keep traffic moving during the 210,000‑capacity Glastonbury Festival. The event ...

This is a big boost for the school and a huge turnaround from its previous life as a Steiner Academy. Inspectors praised the leaders at the school and for the curriculum being "rich" and say the ...

Patients of Frome Medical Practice are being reminded that a patient feedback event takes place this week, and everyone is welcome to attend. The event, on Wednesday 1st May from 6.30pm to 8.00pm, ...

Bath's Sulis Hospital is expanding its regional reach with a new satellite outpatient clinic at Frome Medical Practice, with the first clinic on 23 June 2025. This development will bring expert-led ...

There is a new service starting to serve Frome bus users. Tuesday 2 April from Frome to Sailsbury. It's run by Warminster based Beeline Coaches and Frome Bus on behalf of Wiltshire Council. The ...

New figures have surfaced indicating several deaths following contact with Avon and Somerset Constabulary in the last financial year. This comes amidst concerns raised by the Independent Office for ...

Next week Evolution Trampoline and DMT club's Izzie Hunt and David Knowles will travel to Birmingham to compete in the World Age Group Championships for double mini trampoline. Thirteen year old Frome ...

Avon and Somerset Police has introduced Bluetooth-enabled Tile trackers to enhance its award-winning Dementia Safeguarding Scheme, which has already supported more than 1,600 individuals living with ...

The mood and the weather were sombre at the Boyle Cross as Frome's Ukrainian community gathered for a vigil to mark the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Welcome Hub Facilitator ...