Somerset

since 2025 › Jan › 18 (Sat) @ 08:17 UTC

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21 minutes ago

PICTURED: 'Bright and athletic' boy, 14, fighting for life and facing amputation of both feet after being electrocuted by overhead cables at £58,000-a-year private school

found 2025 › May › 09 (Fri) @ 23:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Talented athlete Chase Allen was rushed to hospital alongside two others after they were zapped by the high voltage cable at Millfield School in Somerset on May 3.

23 hours ago

'Deviant misogynist' who strangled his girlfriend to death on the night she planned to leave him is jailed for 35 years

found 2025 › May › 09 (Fri) @ 00:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Olivia Wood, 29, was subjected to a campaign of psychological and physical abuse before she was killed by 33-year-old Kieron Goodwin, Frome, Somerset.

39 hours ago

Rew replaces injured Cox for England Test with Zimbabwe

found 2025 › May › 08 (Thu) @ 08:40 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

Somerset batter James Rew replaces the injured Jordan Cox in the England squad for their Test against Zimbabwe later this month.

3 days ago

Horror as dog drowns after being thrown in river with weight tied around his neck

found 2025 › May › 06 (Tue) @ 13:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Buddy, a black and brown Jagdterrier, was discovered dead by a member of the public in the River Avon, in the Weston area of Bath, Somerset on March 7.

5 days ago

Moment Bank Holiday traffic is brought to a standstill on motorway... because of a goat

found 2025 › May › 04 (Sun) @ 16:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Motorists were left stunned this morning when the brown goat was seen darting across the lanes of the M5 between Taunton and Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.

8 days ago

Britain's answer to the 'leaning tower of Pisa' could turn seaside town into popular hotspot

found 2025 › May › 01 (Thu) @ 09:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The unassuming seaside town of Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset has a little-known tourist attraction up its sleeve - a tower that's wonkier than Pisa's.

12 days ago

The strange case of the writer landing A-lister interviews for local magazines

found 2025 › Apr › 27 (Sun) @ 05:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

From Johnny Depp in Somerset Life to Barack Obama in Dogs Today, Bernard Bale’s litany of starry interviews offers a rare insight into the engine room of celebrity journalism, and is every bit as int…

20 days ago

‘The Salt Path gave us back our life’: walking back to happiness on Cornwall’s South West Coast Path

found 2025 › Apr › 19 (Sat) @ 06:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

As a film of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path is released, we follow in her footsteps along the Cornish section

‘I want to tell you something. I have a stage 4 brain tumour, and I don’t …

22 days ago

Horrifying moment minibus ploughs head-on into car after veering onto the wrong side of the road - as its driver is jailed for four years

found 2025 › Apr › 17 (Thu) @ 15:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

the van is seen approaching the cars, but it then does not turn back into its lane on the A30 Sherborne Road, Yeovil, Somerset on September 7, 2023.

24 days ago

BBC wildlife expert, 28, left fighting for life with severe brain damage after plunging 30ft from cliff when climbing gear suddenly failed

found 2025 › Apr › 15 (Tue) @ 18:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Bruce Miller, 28, a researcher with the BBC's Natural History Unit, spent 17 days in a coma following the catastrophic fall at Avon Gorge, Somerset, in July last year.

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