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Gideon Amos MP holding public meeting on NHS
The MP for Taunton and Wellington, Gideon Amos, is hosting a “Rebuild our NHS” Public Meeting at the end of May with a panel of health experts to answer questions.
8 May 2025
The MP for Taunton and Wellington, Gideon Amos, is hosting a “Rebuild our NHS” Public Meeting at the end of May with a panel of health experts to answer questions.
The Somerset Libraries Winter Coat Exchange is celebrating even more success in providing essential support for those in need.
Somerset Council have shared the arrangements for rubbish and recycling collections for the bank holiday on Monday, the 5th of May
Somerset Council has issued a cross-party appeal to the Government following the findings of a report on local dentistry, by NHS 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.
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
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.
Somerset’s Pringles poppers can now recycle their empty tubes from the kerbside thanks to new style design that finally stacks up.
More than 50 tonnes of plastic bags and wrapping has so far been recycled in Somerset Council’s trial collections.
All 16 of Somerset Council’s recycling sites will soon revert to their spring/summer opening schedule.
Somerset Council is introducing wide-ranging support and improvements to bus services across the county following confirmation of a new £6 million tranche of Government funding for 2025/26
Somerset Council will be resurfacing one of the county’s key roads next week.
Work on the B3224 Church Hill in Exford will be done across 5 days from Monday 24 March to Friday 28 March inclusive.
Somerset County has published major new plans for safe cycling and walking routes in the county’s towns to help create greener, healthier and more active streets.
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has joined forces with the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) – the national charity that supports people who are deaf, have hearing loss, or tinnitus – to provide a hearing aid support service for residents, their families, friends and colleagues in care homes across Somerset.
More people in Somerset with ovarian cancer are surviving over 12 months from diagnosis than almost everywhere else in the country, according to a report published by NHS England.
On Wednesday 12 March, as part of National No Smoking Day, a five-year Smokefree Somerset campaign is being launched by NHS Somerset and Somerset Council’s Public Health Team to meet the ambitious national government target of reducing the numbers smoking, so only 5% of our population smokes by 2030.
A midwife at Musgrove Park Hospital has scooped a prestigious national Cavell Star Award for showing exceptional care to the families she’s cared for.
Taunton and Wellington’s MP Gideon Amos has visited two villages in his constituency which are blighted by flooding issues.
Somerset Council has launched an online consultation on proposed changes to its Post-16 Local Transport Policy Statement. This policy sets out transport arrangements for eligible
Mind in Somerset are delighted to announce a new project; the Speak Their Name Memorial Quilt led by the Somerset Suicide Bereavement Support Service The
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