Somerset

The Somerset Bus Partnership, officially recognised by Somerset Council and key operators like Buses of Somerset and First West of England, represents bus users throughout Somerset.

Education seeAlso State schools in Somerset are provided by three local education authorities : Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, and the larger Somerset County Council.

The Somerset Levels (or Somerset Levels and Moors as they are less commonly but more correctly known) are a sparsely populated wetland area of central Somerset, between the Quantock and Mendip hills.

Both the Mendips and the Quantocks have been badly hit by ash dieback in the last few years, with Somerset County Council and its successor Somerset Council having to remove and replace large numbers of trees to prevent the disease from spreading.

BUSES of Somerset is launching Tap on Tap off (TOTO) technology across its routes in Somerset to provide customers with easy contactless payments.

ENTRIES are now open for the 20th annual Somerset Business Awards with judges, sponsors and local businesses helping to officially launch the awards at a reception held at The Mount Somerset, near Taunton.

Somerset County Cricket Club has Launched its first ‘Somerset Dreams’ initiative that gives a helping hand to those in need.

The Passion for Somerset website explains the organisation's values further: "At Passion for Somerset, our values aren't just statements on a page — they are the principles that guide us in every decision we make and action we take.

The Superior High School football team won its ninth straight season opener with a 42-6 win over the Somerset Spartans Friday, Aug. 23, in Somerset.

As part of EXPONAVAL 2018 and the celebration of the Chilean Navy’s 200th anniversary, Somerset and Wayne E. Meyer will participate in a parade of ships Dec. 2 and a reception hosted aboard Somerset.

The town of Skowhegan, Somerset Woods Trustees, the Somerset Trails Committee, and the Central Maine New England Mountain Bike Association have teamed up for a great morning of mountain biking.

Chard is the most southerly town in Somerset, and at an altitude of convert it is also the highest. citation Physical geography main Geology main Much of the landscape of Somerset falls into types determined by the underlying geology.

For top-tier authorities, North Somerset (closely followed by Bath & NE Somerset) has the lowest rate, with Cotswold having the lowest rate for council districts.

Somerset songs were collected by Cecil Sharp and incorporated into works such as Holst's A Somerset Rhapsody.

The present Diocese of Bath and Wells covers Somerset – with the exception of the Parish of Abbots Leigh with Leigh Woods in North Somerset – and a small area of Dorset.

The Somerset Rural Life Museum is a museum of the social and agricultural history of Somerset, housed in buildings surrounding a 14th-century barn once belonging to Glastonbury Abbey.

The South Western Ambulance Service covers the entire South West of England, including all of Somerset; prior to February 2013 the unitary districts of Somerset came under the Great Western Ambulance Service, which merged into South Western.

According to Military Airshows, the Red Arrows will depart from Exeter at 1.12pm on Saturday afternoon, passing over Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset in less than 20 minutes.

A COUPLE stranded on cliffs in West Somerset after being cut off by the rising tide were rescued by a coastguard team.

A Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service spokesperson said: “Fire crews from Bridgwater and Taunton attended a road traffic collision on the M5 involving a 4x4 vehicle towing a caravan which had rolled onto its side.