Plans to provide a new off-road walking and cycling route between two growing Somerset town have received the backing of senior NHS figures.

Los Angeles and Anmaat will meet again in an eagerly anticipated renewal of the Prince of Wales’s Stakes on Wednesday – but White Birch is an absentee. The three classy older horses all met in the ...

Research indicates that almost 800 babies were buried in a sewerage system at the St Mary’s home in Tuam, Co Galway between 1925 and 1961.

Somerset MPs have pushed for more NHS funding across the south west following the conclusion of the government’s spending review.

The search for a person who fell overboard from a ferry in the Firth of Clyde has been suspended, the coastguard said. A major search was launched after the alarm was raised on Sunday afternoon, with ...

A sheriff has noted former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg’s “complete compliance” with a community payback order, as he said no further review would take place.

Air India said the New Delhi-bound plane landed in Hong Kong safely and was undergoing checks ‘as a matter of abundant precaution’.

Christopher Cox, from Langport, has been awarded a British Empire Medal. The medal celebrates his work alleviating loneliness in the community ...

Somerset Women’s Academy that was established at the start of this year have been in action and in their most recent game they played ...

Michaela Boor, 30, died in March 2018 after she was hit by the bricks that fell from a tower crane as she walked along a pavement in Bethnal Green.

The world is “on the brink” of extraordinary destabilisation in the Middle East, Ireland’s deputy premier has said. It comes as the EU Foreign Affairs Council has called an emergency meeting to ...

Israel’s military claimed on Monday to have achieved “aerial superiority” over Iran’s capital. The military says it has degraded Iranian air defences and missile systems to the point that its planes ...