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Somerset Council Easter waste colection days
The Easter weekend means changes to recycling and rubbish collections across Somerset.
18 April 2025
The Easter weekend means changes to recycling and rubbish collections across Somerset.
More than 99% of Somerset children starting school for the first time were offered a primary school place at one of their top three choices.
Stroke care and research colleagues at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust have teamed up to test a pioneering new nerve stimulation therapy, in bid to improve hand and arm weakness in stroke survivors.
More than 700 people have already taken part in a dental survey being run by Gideon Amos, the MP for Taunton and Wellington.
RUMWELL Farm Shop is hosting an awareness and fundraising event for Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance this Thursday April 17 including team members making a donation to wear yellow clothing
Somerset Council has completed the sale of C Block of County Hall in Taunton to Prime plc.
Liberal Democrat MP for Glastonbury and Somerton, Sarah Dyke, is collaborating with her fellow Somerset MPs to launch a ‘buy Somerset, back Britain’ campaign, urging residents to support local businesses
On Monday 7 April 2025, Taunton Town Council held its first Grants allocation meeting of the 2025/26 financial year.
The League of Friends of Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton has given a grant of close to £90,000 to improve and expand eye treatments at the hospital.
Bridgwater is set to come alive with FREE music for everyone this spring, as the town hosts its first-ever Bridgwater Blues and Folk Festival on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 April.
Gideon Amos MP is calling on people to join a delegation to Parliament as part of his efforts to get the Wellington and Cullompton Stations project back on track.
With the Easter holidays fast approaching, NHS Somerset is sharing some handy tips to keep you and your family healthy over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.
The Somerset Corporate Parenting Board has unveiled its new strategy, co-written with children in care and care leavers.
This April the Fleet Air Arm Museum is combining chocolate, engineering and Concorde for a memorable Easter
Wellington’s MP, Gideon Amos, praised “the really engaged and happy atmosphere” at Wellesley Park Primary School after a visit, last Friday.
Somerset’s Pringles poppers can now recycle their empty tubes from the kerbside thanks to new style design that finally stacks up.
The MP for Taunton and Wellington, Gideon Amos, has joined calls for the scrapping of water regulator Ofwat after shocking new figures on the discharge of sewage were revealed.
NHS teams across Somerset have been thanked for their role in helping the county’s health service live within its means and achieve financial balance this year, 2024-25
Gideon Amos MP has hailed the roll out of a new fleet of pollution-free electric buses for Taunton and Wellington.
The buses, which come into operation this month, were showcased at Taunton’s Castle Green on Thursday
Two fire engines attended reports of a domestic fire in Wellington, this evening (28th March 2025)
Somerset Council’s highways contractor Keir has offered Somerset highways staff free prostate cancer tests.
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