MORE than 7,000 EU nationals have been granted permission to stay in Sedgemoor, figures show.

TRAVELODGE is hiring across the UK, and there are jobs available at its hotels in Wellington, Burnham-on-Sea, Glastonbury, Weston-super-Mare and Portishead.

A NUMBER of buses in Somerset will be CANCELLED today, amid ongoing staff shortages.

TESCO customers in Burnham-on-Sea have donated 3,310 meals this summer to families in need.

A NEW live music event started this weekend at St John’s Church in Highbridge.

A BURNHAM-on-Sea community pharmacist, Sally Farmer, who works at Day Lewis Pharmacy, will feature in a World Pharmacy Day campaign.

A RETIREMENT living development in Somerset is to be remarketed - providing more than 120 affordable homes.

A CARAVAN park near the M5 can expand and build a new fishing lake for tourists after Somerset councillors voted to grant permission.

VISITORS enjoyed a night out at the Here Comes The Sun evening on Friday (September 17), organised by The Friends of Burnham Hospital.

BUYING a house is said to be one of the most stressful events in a person’s life, but the daughter of a Somerset businessman went out to buy a house - and came back having offered to buy an estate agency.

UNION members at a Clarks distribution centre in Somerset have voted to go on strike over controversial 'fire and rehire' tactics at the world-famous shoemaker.

SOMERSET recycling centres will be reverting to winter opening hours next month.

UP to 110 new homes will be built on a beloved “green lung” within a Somerset town in the coming months.

YEO Valley Organic, the family-owned Somerset dairy company, has won an RHS Gold Medal at the first ever autumn Chelsea Flower Show.

A STUNNING Somerset 'castle' has gone up for sale for the first time in 30 YEARS.

BURNHAM Rugby Club defeated Wiveliscombe 23-6 at home on the weekend.

A SOMERSET estate agent has landed a prestigious honour - for the third year running.

A DRINK-driver has been banned from driving and given a suspended jail sentence - after the offence was captured on his OWN DASHCAM.

The Prime Minister conceded that supermarket shelves could be empty for months ahead of Christmas

TEN fire crews were sent to tackle a fire at the Hinkley Point C construction site this afternoon.

HOUSE prices remained steady in Somerset in July, new figures show, but who saw the biggest - and lowest - growth?

HAVE you entered the Little Angels competition yet?

AROUND one in nine adults in the Somerset West and Taunton are have yet to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, figures suggest – as the Government launches plans to offer booster shots in the autumn.

MORE than half of public buildings inspected in Devon and Somerset last year were found in breach of fire safety regulations, figures reveal.

AN adorable new arrival has been welcomed to a Somerset zoo park.

WORK from more than 300 artists will be on display across the county from this weekend.

THE following obituaries were published in the Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News on September 16, 2021.

ONLY Fools And Horses star John Challis has died from cancer at the age of 79, his family has said.

A BUNGALOW split into two separate dwellings (two bedrooms), plus a stable converted into a one-bedroom dwelling, with a garden stretching to a third of an acre.

A SINGLE case of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) – an infection commonly known as mad cow disease – has been confirmed on a farm in Somerset.

HEALTH and care services across Somerset are currently 'very busy'.

THE local politician expected to lead a new single council for the whole of Somerset has been accused of wanting to be paid the same as an MP.

FIVE hundred tonnes of hay, situated close to two barns, caught fire yesterday afternoon (September 16).

REVISED plans for nearly 100 new homes near the Mendip Hills could be approved before the end of the year.

A FORMER nurse from Somerset sadly passed away after a three month cancer diagnosis delay.

ENTRIES for the 2022 Somerset Business Awards open TODAY.

A HOUSING association has announced plans to build 1,750 affordable homes across Somerset over the next five years - equivalent to around a property a day.

POLICE have issued an appeal to find a missing teenager from Somerset.

TWO people and a dog were rescued from a bedroom window during a house fire this morning (September 15).

A NEW community choir launched this week.

VISITORS flocked to a vintage and classic car show in West Huntspill this weekend.

POLICE are investigating after a man sexually assaulted a woman in a store.

A £1MILLION bargain store is set to open in a Somerset village this weekend.

RIDERS took part in a lengthy cycle challenge - and stopped off at East Huntspill village hall this month.

REPORTS of a chimney and wood burning stove on fire saw crews sent to a Somerset property.

YOUR favourite local paper is giving local charities the chance to take a share of a whopping £125,000 cash giveaway.

A MAN needed "significant surgery to rebuild his jaw" following a disturbance involving a number of people.

THE world’s first T-pylon - the first new design for an electricity pylon in Britain for nearly a century - has been installed in Somerset.

THERE has been multiple roadworks planned in and around Somerset lately, and there are more set to start this week.

A NEW school year has only just begun, but parents and carers are already being urged to apply for their children's school places for September 2022.