Somerset

UFU urges Government to step up efforts to boost rural connectivity

Somerset grower blames weather app claiming heavy rain was not predicted

Nine cases of the virus have been detected outside the zone in Cheshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Cumbria, Anglesey, Gwynedd, Cornwall and North Yorkshire

"Sometimes we go without eating so our children can eat. Despite already working over 80 hours, seven days a week, I was told I would need to get another job. It is appalling"

"We now have land where we can no longer graze livestock due to dog attacks"

"He was a generous, thoughtful man who had a smile, a joke, a kind word and a helping hand for everyone"

Farmer ordered to pay £10,000 after pleading guilty to polluting Somerset watercourse

Glastonbury and Somerton MP Sarah Dyke has written a letter to the new Energy and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband calling on the Labour Government to ensure rural communities receive benefits from solar farms

The Food Standards Agency said the fine had reflected the serious nature of faking documents and jeopardising food safety

Silage effluent found to have polluted watercourse close to Taunton dairy farm