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A series of short films featuring Cornish speakers is now available on BBC iPlayer.
Voters will need to show an accepted form of photographic identification next time they go to the polling station.
Work is taking place on Charmouth Beach footbridge so it can remain safe and accessible for years to come.
Plans for a controversial housing estate on Farleigh Farm fields in Backwell, Bristol, have been submitted to North Somerset Council by Persimmon Homes Severn Valley.
National law firm Clarke Willmott LLP has strengthened its social housing sector team with the appointment of Matthew Wilson as a new partner and Head of its Asset Management team.
Developers need to be alive to the risks of issues arising from third-party land ownership, warns Taunton legal property specialist Caroline Mortimer.
Artists and businesses have taken over the former HSBC bank on the high street, and other businesses have moved to vacant premises in the town centre, as Redruth prepares for the multimillion-pound redevelopment of the historic Buttermarket site.
Dorset Council has recorded its highest number of barn owl chicks yet in its annual monitoring of barn owl boxes at council farms in Dorset.
A new exhibition at Durlston Country Park, ‘Hidden Perspectives – A Sense of Studland’, features work from three artists June Ridgway, Lizzy Short and Lin Walker, showcasing their different perspectives and interpretations of the Studland landscape through the seasons.
Dorset Council’s plans to increase the number of public charge points for electric vehicles (EVs) in Dorset are now underway, with the first new charging unit installed in Sherborne this month.
A five-day festival will be staged at locations across Dorset next month to showcase the county’s exciting digital future.
Bristol hoteliers have broadly welcomed news that the city’s Clean Air Zone will begin in November, providing a welcome boost to their businesses in an increasingly greener, cleaner world.
A planning Inspector has ruled that 125 houses can be built on farm fields in Backwell with the demolition of two houses on the A370 to provide access.
Landowners and local authorities are likely to welcome having an additional method of recourse, through criminal enforcement channels, when faced with unauthorised encampments
Bristol’s Deputy Mayor, Councillor Craig Cheney, has this week visited the new Chocolate Factory development in Bristol to understand how the scheme has transformed an iconic part of the city’s history and improved availability and affordability of homes in the area.
Dorset Council is reminding families feeling the financial squeeze to check if their child could receive a free daily lunch at school. This could save them up to £450 per year per child.
Around 150 people packed into the Backwell Parish Hall in North Somerset to question plans by North Somerset Council to build 1,120 new homes in the village by 2038.
A planning inquiry heard from people who live in Backwell that they see Farleigh Fields – a piece of agricultural land leading up to the village church -= as vital to the well-being of residents.
Dorset and BCP Council want people to suggest locally important buildings, sites, monuments, and features for the Local Heritage List.
A Town Planning expert has told a Public Inquiry in Weston-super-Mare how people living in Backwell have “been heavily involved in 40 years of resisting unpopular proposals on Farleigh Fields”.
