TODAY marks 80 years since a plane crash that took the lives of 27 people on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. On November 22 1945, a plane took off from Merryfield, an RAF station near Ilminster, but ...

Sir Keir Starmer is meeting with allies of Ukraine at the Johannesburg G20 summit on Saturday to seek to “strengthen” a plan secretly drafted by the US to end the war with Russia.

HESTERCOMBE House and Gardens has confirmed that no Christmas events will be taking place this year. Hestercombe, near Taunton, is a historic estate featuring a 16th-century house and gardens spanning ...

In a bid to protect retail spaces in Somerset, eighteen people have been arrested by police after a retail crime operation.

US legislators have criticised Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor for what they describe as “silence” amid their probe into Jeffrey Epstein.

The publisher of the Daily Mail has agreed a £500 million deal to buy Telegraph Media Group. Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) agreed to purchase the Telegraph from Redbird IMI after an attempted ...

The Met Office has shared a weather update for the UK as snow and ice are to be replaced with unsettled, wet and windy conditions.

Never freeze canned foods in their original tins. As the contents freeze and expand, they can cause the cans to burst, potentially leading to food contamination and a messy cleanup. If you have tinned ...

Lots of Somerset businesses were recognised as award winners at the Bristol, Bath, Somerset & Gloucestershire Tourism Awards 2025.

The publisher of the Daily Mail has agreed a £500 million deal to buy Telegraph Media Group. Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) agreed to purchase the Telegraph from RedBird IMI after an attempted ...

Boris Johnson has dismissed the inquiry report that found chaos in his government, and that a failure to take Covid-19 seriously cost 23,000 lives in the pandemic’s first wave, as “muddled”. The Covid ...

Robert James Purkiss, 38, appeared in a London court earlier this month to declare he does not consent to his extradition to the African nation, after the Kenyan director of public prosecutions said ...