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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A resident at a Frome care home spent an afternoon connecting with her favourite animals – pigs! When Eileen Wilkie, aged 104 and resident at Care UK's Rossetti House on Welshmill Lane, shared that ...

Frome Town Council is set to hold an Extraordinary Council Meeting to consider a proposal from a private operator to lease Badgers Hill Stadium. The deal could also include an option to buy the ground ...

A care home resident in Frome has had her wish granted, as she recently enjoyed the opportunity to read to a group of local school children. When the team at Care UK's Rossetti House, on Welshmill ...

Residents of a small Somerset village have cause for celebration after a developer lodged three separate legal challenges against new homes. Lochailort Investments Ltd. has been seeking to deliver ...

Michael Lever, Oxfam's Head of Festivals and Events, said: "We are thrilled to offer people unrivalled access to volunteer with Oxfam at more festivals than ever before this summer. As well as getting ...

A newly released CGI previews just one of the homes available at the soon-to-launch Francis Fields development in Frome. The new imagery offers a first glimpse of the four bedroom detached Avondale ...

A new project to create an alternative D.I.Y shop, aimed at transforming waste, promoting repairs, and building community connections, is set to start in Frome this February. The pop-up store will ...

Black people in Avon and Somerset are almost four times more likely to experience forceful policing compared to their white counterparts, according to new Home Office figures. The data reveals that ...

Survivors of rapes and sexual assaults deciding whether to report to the police "will be believed," the chief of Avon and Somerset Police has said. Since 2021, the police force has been working with ...