Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Somerset

Country diary: A giant of the sea, reduced to a fragment

Porlock Weir, Somerset: This fin whale died in the Bristol Channel back in October; its sutured skull is all that remains

The Guardian - UK

Jo Goldie obituary

Other lives: District nurse who served the same Somerset village across her entire career

The Guardian - UK

World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast

The fossilised Calamophyton remains show how early trees helped shape landscapes and stabilise riverbanks millions of years ago

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Split glove ‘worn by Muhammad Ali in Henry Cooper fight’ to be sold at auction

Somerset auctioneer who says he has genuine left boxing glove from 1963 match hopes to fetch up to £500,000

The Guardian - UK

30 things we love in the world of food, 2024

Celebration doughnuts and an elite cheese snack, tiny drinks and hyper-regional Malaysian food, decision-free dining and dessert trolleys – these are the Observer Food Monthly’s favourite people, places and things for the year

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: Adding to Britain’s precious stock of hedgerows, one by one

Wellington, Somerset: On the cusp of spring, we’re out and about planting 230 metres of hawthorn, blackthorn, field maple and hazel

The Guardian - UK

The House of Broken Bricks by Fiona Williams review – a tender tale of race and roots

A biracial family in rural Somerset struggle with relationships and identity in a debut novel of subtle originality

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

‘Odd’ Hinkley Point C salt marsh plan has Somerset locals up in arms

Anger at EDF proposals to flood wildlife-rich farmland as ‘compensation’ for killing millions of fish at nuclear site

The Guardian - UK

Shoaib Bashir hasn't forgotten how to bowl: Ben Stokes

VISAKHAPATNAM: It's been a hectic week for England's Shoaib Bashir, who is set for his Test debut in the second match against India beginning Friday. The 20-year-old off-spinner from Somerset had to go back home from the UAE, where England had their training camp before the tour of India.

The Times of India

Country diary: Out with the salmon, in with the bullheads

Horner, Somerset: These mottled brown fish can be tricky to spot, lurking as they often do under stones and bridges for safety

The Guardian - UK

West of England coalmines to be mapped for renewable energy potential

Regional mayor Dan Norris launches project to explore potential for former mines to produce low-carbon heat

The Guardian - UK

‘Line of Duty’ documentary reveals if police are fit to bring corrupt officers to justice

A new fly-on-the-wall series is an eye-opening study on whether the police are capable of investigating their own

The Guardian - UK

Sorry, France, you’re on the hook at Hinkley Point

As its own finance director warned: EDF understood exactly what it was signing in 2016

The Guardian - UK

200-Million-Year-Old Flying Reptile Discovered In Somerset

University student uncovers ancient gliding winged reptiles in Mendip Hills

Zenger

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

No plans to tighten care worker English language rules after Somerset death

Home Office rejects call for change from coroner in case of woman who died after ambulance delay

Evening Standard

Welcome to Bittescombe: All the fun of Saltburn, none of the snobbery

Forget Frome — there’s a revolution on the other side of Somerset. Just look at Bittescombe Lodge and Inn, says David Ellis

The Guardian - UK

Somerset man jailed for life for ‘revenge attack’ plot on old school and colleagues

Reed Wischhusen’s targets included former classmates as well as Avon and Somerset police

The Independent UK

Family of ‘murdered’ woman had to use Google to find sex offending history of fugitive ex-partner

Exclusive: The family of Kelly Faiers say they have been let down by Avon and Somerset Police as search continues for on-the-run sex offender

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

No place like Holm: a first look at Somerset’s new restaurant with rooms

Overnight stays at one of the South-West’s best dining rooms are now on the menu. We check in for an early preview

The Guardian - UK

Shoaib Bashir: ‘I couldn’t believe Flintoff was in front of me, calling me by my nickname’

England’s newest spin recruit tells Taha Hashim about living a crazy dream having been picked for the five-Test tour of India after only six first-class matches

The Guardian - UK

Man jailed for causing death of two sisters in 100mph crash in Somerset

Thomas Lenthall, 40, sentenced to 10 years after Maddie and Libby North, 21 and 17, were killed in Frome in July

The Guardian - UK

How one English town fought cookie-cutter housing by daring to dream a different future

The people of Frome, in Somerset, weren’t ready to have their heritage built over with the same cheap developments that bedevil much of the UK, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Glastonbury festival tickets sell out in less than an hour

Standard tickets to the 2024 music festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset went on sale on Sunday morning

Ideal Home

This house in Froome has been transformed with colour and surprise bursts of pattern all over the house

Home provides the perfect colourful canvas for this Somerset-based illustrator’s bold work

The Independent UK

Drink-driver boasted ‘I’m smashed’ as he filmed himself at wheel before killing woman

Sarah Baker died after being hit by a van driven by Anton Hull in Somerset last year

1 … 11 12 13 14

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Avon and Somerset Police

147 stories

the University of Bristol

144 stories

Acorn

138 stories

the Independent Office for Police Conduct

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.