Somerset County, England News

Campaigners calling for the speed limit to be reduced outside a Midsomer Norton school say their pleas are falling on deaf ears.

The way Bath and North East Somerset Council looks after elderly people in their own homes is about to be reviewed.

A ROAD rage investigation has begun after a bus driver and a Porsche driver clashed over the right of way in a Whitchurch street.

PLANS to open a hairdressing salon in Mudford have been given the go-ahead. Paul Skinner has received planning permission from South Somerset District Council for the "change of use" of an existing workshop at Brambles in East Lane to be used as a hair salon.

A MISTERTON couple have been awarded planning permission to go-ahead with work at their home.

WELSH rockers Kids In Glass Houses are playing the Orange Box in Yeovil on Saturday.

Police are appealing for help tracing a valuable set of titanium tools stolen from the boot of a car in Underleaf Way, Peasedown St John.

POLICE are appealing for help to trace a man who sexually assaulted a woman as she walked along a road in Ilchester.

The High Street and shop were very busy at the time. The man who was knocked down by the car suffered suspected neck and back injuries.

THE countdown is almost over! Bridgwater Carnival, Europe's best illuminated carnival, starts tomorrow and all the clubs are putting their finishing touches to this year's dazzling entries.

A DRAYTON man has applied to South Somerset District Council for planning permission to cut down a Beech tree at his home.

A COLONEL from Queen Camel has applied to South Somerset District Council for planning permission.

BRITAIN'S tallest bullock which stood higher than an average horse has died - from arthritis caused by his huge girth.

WORK will start later this month on a new A 8m congestion-busting road across Taunton.

An elderly driver from Box has been taken to hospital after a head-on crash on an A-road near Bradford on Avon.

A TOTTENHAM man who attacked and raped a young woman as she walked home from a Somerset nightclub has been locked up for six years.

Bosses who want to put a 400,000 volt overhead electricity line through North Somerset are being urged to consider putting the cables underground.

Concerned residents fighting proposals to put a new 400,000 volt power line through the countryside will be able to grill power bosses about their plans at a special meeting later this month.

A father-of-three found dying in the street suffered severe head injuries from one punch, a court has heard.

POLICE are warning that there could be disruption to traffic in the middle of a South Somerset town later this week.