Leaders at Heathfield Community School near Taunton are working with Cabot Learning Foundation – an expert school improvement partner – to accelerate improvements following a recent ‘inadequate’ Ofsted report. The latest inspection, which took place from 13– 14 March, reported…

A celebration of the county’s coast is at the heart of the Somerset and Exmoor Coast Festival which launches this autumn. The England Coast Path team at Somerset Council unveiled plans for the new event this week, which it’s hoped…

Somerset Council has approved a Nutrient Credit Scheme for the River Brue catchment potentially enabling developers to re-start residential housing projects and other developments on hold due to the high level of phosphates found in our water courses. As with…

Vital resurfacing work and traffic light repairs on a section of the A30 in West Coker are to be carried out this summer. Somerset Council will be resurfacing 7,000 sqm of West Coker’s High Street, as well as replacing ageing…

Pump up those bike tyres and pack up your panniers for a wonderful bike-packing adventure that will take you into the heart of the county. The Tourism Team at Somerset Council have produced an all-new leaflet and updated route section…

Somerset Libraries will soon be launching some free guided one-hour fun activity and movement sessions in Chard and Bridgwater Libraries. The sessions are particularly aimed at anyone with a health condition, but anyone is welcome to book a place. The…

Bus users in Somerset can now travel on most routes in the county for just £2 until October 31. The major fare cut is part of a national initiative funded by the Government aimed at boosting bus use while helping…

Somerset Council is encouraging the county to get behind this year’s No Mow May campaign and highlighting its own work to ‘let it grow’ where possible – until May and beyond. The national initiative encourages people to help pollinating insects…

Three Somerset ‘Community Champions’ have been awarded British Empire Medals at a ceremony held in Taunton. The Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset, Mohammed Saddiq, handed out the medals to Andrew Samuel from Taunton,  David Scott from Williton, and William Mellersh from Stanton…

Hundreds of Key Stage 1 children from across Somerset have experienced their first visit to a cultural venue and a taste of an orchestral playing thanks to a special partnership that has been developed between The Octagon Theatre and Bournemouth…

Crews will be working this Sunday (14 May) to catch-up on outstanding recycling collections in villages and towns around Frome, Wells, Shepton Mallet and in parts of Bridgwater. Collections are happening one day later all week due to the coronation…

Work on a major refurbishment of the Crescent car park in Taunton is progressing at pace with final preparations about to get underway. The town centre car park is being upgraded to provide extra space, sustainable travel enhancements including EV…

A busy junction on the A39 in Wells will see the next stage of a £16.6m signals replacement programme in Somerset next week, from Monday 15 May. Somerset Council’s Highways team will be installing new traffic signals on both the…

Every Somerset resident has a chance to win 6 all-weekend tickets worth up to £380 for a popular local music festival by finding special pebbles hidden around the county. 100 specially stickered competition pebbles have been hidden in publicly accessible…

Somerset’s Fixy initiative celebrates its first birthday this month, having started the repair and reuse conversation with nearly 3,000 people since its launch last May. The celebrations coincide with this year’s, ‘The Big Fix’, a month of repair and reuse…

Recovery work continues after Somerset communities are hit by flash flooding. Somerset Council teams remain on the ground supporting communities hit by flash flooding earlier this week (Tuesday 9 May). Council officers are continuing to identify and provide immediate support…

New figures released on Somerset Day show that nine out of ten households in the county are now recycling. Looking at a representative sample of more than 3,000 homes in March this year, 91% were found to be actively recycling…

Somerset Council has netted an additional £5.4m to carry out essential repair works across the county’s road network. This year’s extra funding from the Government recognises the unprecedented challenges facing authorities after a year of extreme weather conditions. A blistering…

Work to make Wookey Primary School near Wells more energy efficient and environmentally friendly has now completed, as the school becomes the latest local authority building to receive a ‘decarbonisation makeover’. Pupils and staff at Wookey Primary can soon look…

This is an update on flash flooding which affected several areas in Somerset yesterday. This includes, but is not limited to, parts of Queen Camel, Milverton, Galhampton, North Cadbury, Yarlington, Bridghampton, and West Camel. The immediate response was led by…