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June 2025

Somerset this week: 27 June 2025
In a busy week we have a Taunton farmer fined in court, a row over solar panels in Bridgwater, proposals for local government finance, unhappiness in…
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Yeovil paediatric problems revealed
The release of the full CQC report into Yeovil District Hospital's paediatric service is published today. It is truly shocking. Yet despite failings in…
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Race to the door
As the Life Factory saga continues, more information has come to light along with a new resignation. And two other projects in the Glastonbury Town Deal…
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Somerset this week: 20 June 2025
This week a new CEO for Taunton's UKHO, more Police on our streets, Somerset Council quietly exits FixMyStreet, we ask why, no questions on the accounts…
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More consultants at Somerset Council
Once again Somerset Council is preparing to fork out money that it keeps telling us it is short of, to pay for consultants to tell them what to do.
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Minehead Money Mess
How did a town council come to pay tens of thousands of pounds to a councillor? Now PKF report it should not have done. We look at the background and…
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Somerset this week: 13 June 2025
This week: a brief update on the Life Factory, an employment scam, how easy it is to speak at council meetings across Somerset, a warning letter for…
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Who is Prabhu Srinivasan?
As Yeovil Town welcome their fourth new owner since 2019, Somerset Confidential® wanted to find out a little more about the man who will have the future…
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Somerset this week: 6 June 2025
This week: no transport money for Somerset, Glastonbury Life Factory update, the analogue switch off, a resident is declared not a nuisance after all…
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Somerset Spotlight - No 2
Frome FM's Sam Saunders and Somerset Confidential editor Andrew Lee are joined by Somerset Cllr Helen Kay and Frome Town Cllr Steve Tanner to discuss…
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The museum that vanished
How the Bath Fashion Museum vanished and plans to bring it back. We look at the history, the exciting new plans for it and ask how much reviving the…
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