Wells Festival of Literature returns this October with big names, bold ideas and a line-up worth clearing your diary for.

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 ...

An interactive map, created by Nub News, shows where crimes have been reported around Frome. Using Police.uk data the map shows all the crimes reported to Avon and Somerset Constabulary during March ...

The Black Death ravaged Somerset in 1348-49, dramatically altering social and economic structures and paving the way for change and resilience.

More disabled people are in work in Somerset, according to new figures, though nearly half of disabled people across Britain remain unemployed, highlighting ongoing challenges. Data from the ...

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 ...

Local charity DonateIT and Somerset Council’s FIXY project successfully collected one tonne of tech donations at Frome Town Hall on February 2nd.

Life in Somerset might feel like a mixed bag – and now the data proves it. The latest deep dive by the Office for National Statistics has laid bare how our corner of the South West is faring on ...

A local nature charity is offering Christmas gifts aimed at being affordable and meaningful. For £20 you can give your family member or friend a year's sponsorship of a "beautiful patch of land" that ...

In addition to mobile phone use, Avon and Somerset Constabulary issued 141,470 fixed penalty notices for driving-related offences last year.

Avanti Park School opened in November 2019. When its predecessor school, the Steiner Academy Frome, was last inspected by Ofsted, it was rated inadequate.

Plans to build 20 new homes have been refused on the grounds that they would cause "substantial harm" to the village and the surrounding countryside. Lochailort Investments Ltd., the firm behind the ...