Somerset Confidential gives you news, investigations and good old fashioned journalism from God's county including Somerset, North Somerset and Bath & North East Somerset.
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Everyone agrees. Just who is everyone?
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Today’s piece looks into the issue of consulting the public. It may be a statutory necessity but is it just a token gesture before public bodies do what they want anyway?
This article is for all our readers.
If you’d like t...
Frome West - Somerset Council by-election
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One of the strengths of our publication is that we offer unrivalled coverage of local politics. Not just MP’s but councils and councillors too.
That means being close to the ground and having working relationships with politi...
A long interval
In March 2025 Somerset Council confirmed that the Octagon Theatre was not expected to reopen until “early 2027”. The latest estimate is 2028 or 2029. We take a look behind the scenes.
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Wanted: Dennis Howell
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Today’s article is for all our readers. As the first hosepipe ban is imposed on Somerset for 50 years we travel back and revisit the drought of 1976.
Somerset Confidential is a reader-supported publication. If you’d like to s...
And then there was one
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Today’s piece by James Garrett looks into the continuing problems swirling around a company that was set up to provide allotments as an alternative to those provided by local councils.
This piece is for all our readers.
If y...
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Somerset Confidential. Hard news, local politics, difficult questions. Brought to you by the team that created The Leveller®. Leading a revival in news publishing across the historic county of Somerset.
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