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The Chard Town Council have voiced their concerns over road safety and a lack of highway maintenance in Chard.
Members of Parliament from across Somerset cast their vote on the Welfare Reform bill yesterday (Tuesday, July 1).
Plans are being developed to save youth services in a Somerset town after it was announced that the youth centre is to close ...
A man has pleaded not guilty to murdering his one-month-old son. Tony Bartlett, 38, is accused of killing Atticus Bartlett in ...
A reserve sergeant who was paralysed from the chest down in a motorbike crash has said "everything happens for a reason". Sgt ...
A postman has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his one-month-old son. Tony Bartlett, 38, denies killing Atticus Bartlett ...
Firefighters rescued a casualty from a burning flat in Chard in the early hours of this morning (June 26).
Avon and Somerset Police said officers were called an address in Chard just before 11.30pm on Saturday 16 July, after reports a baby had fallen ill.
A terrifying blaze broke out at a battery factory in a town in Somerset this morning. Around 60 firefighters scrambled to the inferno at the PMBL factory in Leach Road, Chard, at around 5.48am.
Avon and Somerset Police were called by ambulance crews to Helliers Road in Chard after reports a baby had fallen ill. The incident happened just before 11.30pm on Saturday 16 July.
A postman charged with the murder of his one-month-old son has been released on bail. Tony Bartlett is accused of killing his son Atticus Bartlett in Chard, Somerset, on July 23 2022. Avon and ...
Michael Frison, 25, from Chard, in Somerset, has not been seen since leaving for a walk in rural Luras on July 13. Mr Frison, who grew up in Bristol, had been visiting family while volunteering in the ...