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Somerset

August 2024

  • Police crime scene tape

    Man charged with murder after woman dies in Somerset

  • Aerial view of derelict factories and grassland bordering a residential area

    Developer pulls out of Frome regeneration project after public outcry

July 2024

  • People in the water at Warleigh Weir near Bath

    Real-time water quality monitors installed at wild swimming spots in southern England

  • Close-up of ornate chandelier with person's hands in shot

    National Trust imposes chandelier ‘tax’ over Only Fools and Horses jokes

  • The family are standing outside a house. De Chair, Crook and two of the children are peering round the house at at something out of shot. Rees-Mogg is holding the youngest child on his hip.

    Jacob Rees-Mogg and family to star in fly-on-the-wall documentary

  • Two lesser black-backed gulls standing on a grassy patch facing opposite directions

    Birdwatch
    Birdwatch at the cricket: wagtails, falcons and gulls – but no ducks

  • UK police chief who declared her force ‘institutionally racist’ says culture is changing

  • Rees-Mogg tells young Tories he wants to ‘build a wall in the English Channel’

June 2024

  • Marina Abramović on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury festival.

    ‘Give unconditional love to each other’: artist Marina Abramović silences Glastonbury for seven minutes

    Serbian performance artist tells Pyramid stage crowd to confront cyclical violence in thousands-strong ‘collaboration’
  • Burna Boy, Little Simz and Camila Cabello, three of the major stars playing Glastonbury this year.

    From African stars to British stalwarts, Glastonbury 2024 opens gates to a truly diverse lineup

    With the BBC livestreaming globally for the first time, and an especially rich lineup of Black artists, 2024’s festival champions a broad remit – but plays it safe with Coldplay
    • Glastonbury weather: warm, dry and settled conditions forecast for festival

    • Country diary
      Country diary: A special delivery of mystery creatures – baby eels

    • Country diary
      Country diary: Kites and ticks, in ever-greater numbers

May 2024

  • Roger Stanbridge

    Other lives
    Roger Stanbridge obituary

  • A family cycling out of a tunnel

    The alternatives
    ‘It’s unbelievable the difference a path has made’: how volunteers are building a cycle network a yard at a time

  • Entrance to the Grand Pier, Marine Parade, Weston-super-Mare: it is seen on a bright sunny day under a clear blue sky

    Conservatives mark 200 constituencies as vulnerable in next general election

  • Henry Moore miniature sculptures on display

    Henry Moore’s miniature sculptures celebrated in Bath show

April 2024

  • Salesperson Tom Wyeth with a mask sculpture by Victoria Topping and an Elton John piano lid by Kirk Andrews.

    ‘A special bond between music and art’: Bath piano shop turns old parts into palette

    From an eagle to Elton John, the Played and Remade project enables artists to ‘make something magical’ from free materials
  • Palaeontologist Dr Dean Lomax (left) with Ruby and Justin Reynolds and Paul de la Salle (right)

    Fossils found in Somerset by girl, 11, ‘may be of largest-ever marine reptile’

    Experts believe remains belong to a type of ichthyosaur that roamed the seas about 202m years ago
  • Avon and Somerset police logo

    Family criticise police over possible discovery of body of sex offender linked to mother’s death

    Relatives of Kelly Faiers say police failed to properly inform them that a body had been found
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