The Latest Breaking News from West Country

Where is Rivals season 2 filmed? Beautiful West Country locations featured in the hit show

From Elizabethan manors in the Cotswolds to chocolate box Wiltshire towns, here is where you can find the incredible locations featured in Rivals season 2

Woman & Home · May 15

Steve Evans singing with supporters as Bristol Rovers end home run with big win

Evans swapped the touchline for the Thatchers End towards the end of the West Country derby.

The Independent UK · Apr 25

Where is Beyond Paradise filmed? The stunning locations used for popular BBC show

Beyond Paradise, a spin-off of Death in Paradise, is set in the fictional Devon town of Shipton Abbott, where DI Humphrey Goodman settles with Martha Lloyd. The series is not filmed in a real place called Shipton Abbott, but rather across various scenic locations in Devon and Cornwall. Looe in…

The Independent UK · Mar 27

Colourful new community artwork in Dorset steals Cerne Giant’s limelight

Consequences Giant figure in the West Country is the result of project involving community groups and schools

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2025

“There was a very unpleasant atmosphere between all of us. George Martin said he’d do another album… Instead we drove the band off the cliff”: How Stackridge conspired to swerve the success they deserved

The quirky West Country prog group started to get somewhere with 1973’s The Man In The Bowler Hat. Guitarist/vocalist James Warren – later of The Korgis – accepts youth and inexperience caused their implosion at exactly the wrong moment

Louder · Aug 10, 2025

Gloucester dismantle Exeter in record-breaking West Country derby victory

Gloucester delivered a record-breaking thrashing of Exeter as they scored 13 tries in their 79-17 West Country derby triumph

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2025

Bath go deep to surge back and overcome Gloucester in derby cracker

Another week, another rip-roaring West Country derby. This time, though, it was Bath who headed home with the bragging rights

The Guardian - UK · Oct 12, 2024

Fear and sympathy: villagers on their encounters with the ‘Somerset gimp’

The latex-clad individual has caused much distress in the sleepy West Country area, though others say they ‘feel sorry for them’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2023

Five of the best walks on England’s South West Coast Path

How better to celebrate 50 years of the stunning West Country network than walking one of these Cornwall, Devon or Dorset sections

The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2023

Lib Dems eye return to West Country strongholds with Somerton and Frome win

Sir Ed Davey said the victory showed the Lib Dems were ‘firmly back’ in one of their former heartlands.

The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2023