UNBELIEVABLE: Somerset | History Defined

Tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2027 sell out in less than 45 minutes

After taking a break in 2026, the event will return next year on June 23-27 at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset.

Evening Standard · Oct 4

William to launch emergency preparedness initiative during Somerset visit

The Prince of Wales will join volunteers and young people taking part in a training exercise.

Evening Standard · Oct 3

Prince William to unveil national plan to ready UK communities for extreme weather

The Prince of Wales will join volunteers and young people taking part in a training exercise

The Independent UK · Oct 3

‘You can taste the land’: the Somerset farmer bringing wildflowers back to cheddar

Tom Calver has sacrificed milk yields to give his cows a more varied diet of plants and believes the result is better cheese and richer farmland

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28

Houses can be built on floodplains despite failing safety test, says high court

Decision to allow 190 controversial new homes in north Somerset sparks campaign for change in the law

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27

15 great cottages and cabins for an autumn escape in the UK

Get inspiration for your next short break with our pick of self-catering accommodation, from a sleek Highlands retreat to a cabin with a hot tub on a Somerset vineyard

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27

Warwickshire clinch the title, Bairstow the hero for Yorkshire: County Championship, third day – as it happened

Updates from the final round of county cricket games, with Tanya Aldred at the controls

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26

OPINION - I fled London for peace but found my inner slob — now I’m back, smarter and calmer

“Ok, but I’m not going to everybody’s bloody birthday and everybody’s bloody brunch,” I huffed, my begrudging condition on agreeing to move back to London after five years in the wilds of rural Somerset. “And it’s only for a year, while we figure out our next move.”

Evening Standard · Sep 26

‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project

Locals raised £1m for Mayday Saxonvale scheme involving homes and park but Somerset officials agreed deal with London-based real estate company

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25

Gerry Hunt obituary

Other lives: Headteacher who was a community champion in the village of Pill, in Somerset

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21