Screwfix will be coming to a Minehead industrial estate after plans were approved. The hardware and tools specialist company ...

A new community swimming pool in Somerset is another step closer to reality, after the county received a government grant for projects which will improve inactivity. Around £230,000 will be spent ...

A house on Plover Close, Minehead, has been decorated with over 3000 Christmas lights to raise money for charity.

Nearly 90% of a county's new council homes have been let to local residents, the council says, despite speculation on social ...

A 10-year-old boy has died after a school coach carrying children and staff home from an end of term trip flipped onto its roof and slid down a 20ft bank in Somerset. The coach was travelling back to ...

Minehead locals remain in shock this morning after a coach carrying children to a secondary school "left the road" yesterday and crashed, flipping onto its roof and killing one child. Members of the ...

A child has died after a school coach carrying children and staff home from an end of term trip flipped onto its roof and slid down a 20ft bank in Somerset. The 70-seater vehicle was taking pupils ...

Together they will cover miles of winding Exmoor lanes and hill climbs, visiting each of the Federation's schools, starting ...

Police are allowing our reporters to slowly move up the road. Here's some more photos from the latest cordon. It is thought the children were returning from a trip to Exmoor Zoo when the bus crashed.

Police have confirmed that a child has tragically died after a school coach, which was carrying between 60-70 children and adults, crashed. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and local MP Rachel Gilmour ...

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