Final works have been completed to the High St and Borough in Yeovil, which will see buses and taxis make a welcome return to the town centre on Friday, 15 December with the festive season in full swing.

Somerset Libraries has yet again been awarded the South Western Regional Library Services (SWRLS) Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) Initiative Award. The libraries service accepted the award for their Thermal Imaging Camera Loaning Scheme. In 2022, the team won it for their…

Somerset Council is launching a public consultation on its budget, offering residents and businesses the chance to have their say as the authority faces a financial emergency. The consultation is open to everyone and the results will help influence Councillors…

Nearly 90 wheelchair-accessible homes have been delivered in the Taunton, Wellington and West Somerset area in the past three years – with more in the pipeline. In North Taunton, five wheelchair-adapted homes are being provided and nearing completion as part…

Customers can video call Somerset Council’s customer services team through VAL – Video Assistant Link. is a free video calling service which can be accessed from all Council Access Points (CAPs) and Libraries – that’s over 30 places in Somerset.…

Plan ahead to save waste and save money – that is the message from Somerset Council as the festive food shopping starts in earnest. Christmas sees Somerset’s food waste rise by as much as 11% – with an additional 238…

Bus passengers on four routes in Somerset can take advantage of a completely free bus travel day on 19 December. Working in partnership with Somerset Council and the Somerset Bus Partnership, First Bus South, which operates Buses of Somerset is…

Two Somerset men have been awarded honours for services to their communities. John Bishton, from Bruton, has received an MBE and Christopher Rutt, from Kilve, a BEM. Both received their honours from the Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset, Mohammed Saddiq, during a…

Waste collection crews will be working this Saturday (9 December) in parts of South Somerset to catch-up on flood delayed collections. The teams have been working hard to reach households following the flooding which hit parts of Somerset this week.…

The flooding which affected parts of Somerset on Monday and Tuesday (4 and 5 December) prevented recycling and refuse crews collecting from hundreds of households in parts of South Somerset. Due to the scale of flooding, crews will be unable to…

A Taunton superstore has been fined £960,000, reduced to £640,000 for an early guilty plea, for food hygiene offences following a successful prosecution by Somerset Council. Guilty pleas were entered by CDS (Superstores International) Ltd, operating as The Range Home…

Somerset Council and NHS Somerset are teaming up to provide funding to care providers who want to go digital by introducing electronic care records which replace paper-based admin systems. This project is in its second year running and has already…

An essential bus service linking Wells to Weston-super-Mare will run again in the new year thanks to a partnership between North Somerset Council and Somerset Council. The 126 service between Wells and Weston-super-Mare was discontinued in October 2022 due to…

Two new Deputy Lieutenants have been appointed to assist and support the Lord-Lieutenant in Somerset. They are Brigadier Nigel Beacom QVRM TD VR DL, from Wedmore, and Justin Sargent OBE DL, from Ashwick.  They bring to 34 the number of…

Somerset Council has been awarded £5m over five years by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to form a Health Determinants Research Collaboration’ (HDRC) – a new research partnership to improve health and reduce health inequalities across…

Somerset Council’s Highways teams have been responding to incidents across the county following heavy rain overnight and during today (Monday, 4 December). They responded to more than 40 incidents, many of them minor road closures due to flooding, as rain…

Somerset Council is asking people to think about fixing as they gear up for the festive season. According to Material Focus ‘Recycle your electricals’ campaign, 35 million of us admit to throwing away Christmas fairy lights when they are broken…

It’s December, which means the Christmas countdown has begun in Wells, as the much-loved festive market returns to the city on Saturday 16 December. It’s not long to wait until over 100 stalls will line the Market Place and Bishop’s…

Bridgwater businesses and communities are invited to have their say and input into exciting proposals to restore and regenerate Bridgwater Docks, as part of the government’s Levelling Up programme to transform Bridgwater Town Centre. The first of a series of…

Views are invited on proposals to renew the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) that prohibits night fishing and camping at Brownes Ponds and Taunton Road Ponds in Bridgwater. The PSPO means that anyone fishing or camping in the designated areas…