Our food blogger and chef, Katy Harris extols the virtues of bread as part of our Your Money Matters this week and offers a great recipe too.

A TEAM of cyclists has raised £10,000 for The Nelson Trust, a charity specialising in supporting women who have experienced trauma or abuse

ACCESS to Cheddar Reservoir's car parks and permissive path will be suspended for five days because of the high temperatures forecast for Somerset.

A VILLAGE hall in Somerset has officially re-opened with a celebration event after a successful £282,400 refurbishment project.  

A FOUR-DAY amber warning for extreme heat has been issued for Somerset and the South West.

HINKLEY Point C has today (Tuesday, August 8) released video and images of its latest spectacular engineering achievement – the precision placement of a 5,000-tonne intake head on the seabed of the Bristol Channel.

THE Fire Service needed crews from seven different stations to deal with a straw baler on fire in North Petherton last night (August 8).

We are giving local charities the chance to take a share in a massive £16k giveaway.

CHILDREN can eat for free at Marco Pierre White's restaurant in Eastover, Bridgwater, during the summer holidays.

There was plenty of fun to be had at the Burtle Harvest Home event over the weekend.

A CAMPAIGN to encourage more people to hop on buses has been launched as households face mounting financial pressures.

TO try and help holiday hunger and fitness, Hamp Community Association (HCA) have teamed up with Bridgwater United Community Sports Trust (BUCST) to offer fre weekly football and food fun.

FASHIONS may come and go, but the draw of well made and designed items never lose their appeal.

A GROUP of medals won by war hero Sir Thomas 'Archie' Lamb are included in the Charterhouse September auction of medals, militaria, coins and stamps.

SPAXTON Village Show was back on Saturday afternoon (August 6) following a two-year enforced break due to Covid.

HERE'S a list of sites across Somerset where police will be operating mobile speed cameras during the week starting today (Monday, August 8).

TREES affected by ash dieback and traffic light refurbishment works are among the major roadworks being undertaken in Somerset this week.

Tools are being stolen every 45 minutes across the UK and Avon & Somerset is among the top 10 tool theft hotspots, according to police data.

DEVON and Somerset Fire Service has extinguished a fire in the rear of a combine harvester in Cannington.

A BUNGALOW conservatory has been damaged by a fire in Bridgwater, despite the efforts of neighbours before firefighters arrived.

Here's a selection of the items you'll find in the middle aisles of Aldi and Lidl from Sunday, August 7.

Test your Harry Potter knowledge with five different rounds, from spells and potions to Hogwarts and creatures.

DUNBALL Sluice, near Bridgwater is set to be refurbished in order to give the tidal defence asset an extra 25 years of use.

HERE'S a look at the stunning Camera Club pictures featured this week.

A universal household levy could offer a viable alternative to the BBC licence fee, a new report has suggested.

According to the Road Traffic Act 1988 in reference to careless and inconsiderate driving, the law is clear.

POLICE have appealed for the public's help to find a missing man who may have been injured during an “altercation” in Bridgwater this morning.

POLICE believe a convicted rapist and kidnapper may be in Somerset.

A RESIDENT living in a Bridgwater block of flats has been taken to hospital after bedbug bites became infected, a family member has said.

SOMERSET'S largest indoor axe throwing venue is opening last this month.

A GROUP of men who meet up in a 'shed' saved the day for a couple planning to marry in a local church.

MILLIONS of pounds could be invested in town centres, transport, and cultural projects in parts of Somerset if a bid for government funding is successful.

A BRIDGWATER man was given a suspended prison sentence for drinking alcohol.

THE former Bridgwater Hospital could be returned to public use as a training centre after a £20m bid submitted to the Government’s Levelling Up Fund by Sedgemoor District Council.

POLICE are asking people in Somerset to look out for a convicted drug offender.

FANCY moving into a brand new house - even if you haven't already sold your current home?

A MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST will play in Cossington to raise funds for a hospital later this month.

A FORMER Somerset newspaper reporter has become the first person to ever run the 299-mile Macmillan Way.

A SOMERSET man has died in a collision on the M5 today (Wednesday, August 3).

A former Somerset doctors’ surgery could reopen as a ‘health hub’, providing a range of NHS services before the end of the year.

A FORMER police officer who used confidential systems to look up information about people they knew would have been dismissed if they hadn’t already resigned, a misconduct hearing panel concluded yesterday (Tuesday, August 2).

THE 16-year-old boy who died from stab wounds following an incident in Somerset at the weekend has been officially named.

ST John Ambulance is aiming to recruit hundreds of volunteer vaccinators in Somerset and the West Country to boost the population's Covid and flu immunity.

MECCA Bingo has confirmed it will close its Bridgwater hall permanently later this month after nearly 50 years in the town.

THE two politicians vying to be our next Prime Minister were in Somerset this week looking to drum up support for their campaigns.

A YOUNG man supplied drugs from a Somerset home he took over while the tenant real was in hospital has been jailed.

A PICTURE taken by firefighters shows the extent of the damaged caused during a devastating blaze at a popular local pub.

A RESIDENT said the closure of a stretch of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal is a “huge inconvenience”.

RURAL crime in Somerset cost an estimated £930,000 in 2021, according to insurer NFU Mutual's 2022 Rural Crime Report.

THERE'S an unusual auction taking place this Friday (August 5).