On a cold but sunny morning in November, I set off with my walking friend Suman across the Somerset Levels from Axbridge ...

Every budget statement there has ever been is met with a mixture of jeers, cheers and the doom and gloom merchants who roll ...

A packed town hall watched Taika Waititi’s 2016 New Zealand movie in the new community cinema’s first offering to gauge ...

The investigative website Somerset Confidential has published a report on water resilience, water companies and that age old ...

You only have to list the number of energy companies that have gone bust in recent years to know something is amiss with the ...

Welcome to our Autumn NewsletterThese are changed times compared to earlier this summer with a change of Government and Prime ...

A group of Axbridge film fans have set up a community cinema to screen movies in the town hall with the inaugural film on ...

Plans announced by Redrow Homes to build 70 new homes next to the Cheddar Car Boot site off the A371 near Draycott and the ...

Back in September 2025 councillors at Cheddar Parish Council made a number of objections to Lidl building a supermarket at the top of New Road. One which may not of caught the ...

Another huge change was the axing of the Axbridge Rural District Council based in the town in 1974 by the Conservative administration of Edward Heath with the Local Government Act of 1972. The old ...

There’s something very louche in Anthony Valentine’s voice as Basil Seal in the Beeb’s 1990 production of Put Out More Flags as he looks to make a few bob from posting evacuees to reluctant ...

There were nine vintages to sample with a sparkling wine, white wines, reds and finally dessert wines. Thankfully the glasses were small by pub standards so by the end of the evening I estimated we ...