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  1. Dec Donnelly apologises for shoplifting after walking out of M&S without paying

    The star confessed to accidentally taking a bacon and egg sandwich without paying and then eating the evidence.…
    #NewsBeep #News #Entertainment #Bridgewater #DeclanDonnelly #GB #I'mACelebrityGetMeOutOfHere #Realityshows #shoplifting #Somerset #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/760228/

  2. St Aldelms Well, Doulting, Somerset. A spring that is the source of River Sheppey. Said to have curative properties - somewhat undermined by the fact that St Aldelm died, shortly after arriving here.
    #StAldelmsWell #Doulting #Somerset #spring #Sheppey

  3. surreal natural art

    Over thousands of years, water and minerals have worked hand in hand to create true works of art...

    August 2026 Gough’s Cave, Cheddar, Somerset

    #StalactiteCave #Stalagmites #Stalactites #GoughsCave #Cheddar #Somerset #England #UK #Cave #pool #water #minerals #reflection #mirror #Spiegelung

  4. It is not usual for one Mason to be Master of more than one Lodge consecutively, and many jurisdictions expressly forbid it. However, Victor Dover was Master of the oldest English Lodge - Royal Somerset and Inverness Lodge 4 - and the then youngest Lodge - Swakely Lodge 6634 - in 1948.

    #Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #England #Somerset #Inverness

  5. Mayors are the big winners in Burnham’s devolution drive. So what happens to areas without mayors? | John Harris
    By John Harris

    Labour has promised a ‘fundamental rewiring’ of power. But some areas are years into their devolution journey while others scramble to get started

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #Devolution #AndyBurnham #Labour #Politics #UKnews #Somerset #Wiltshire #TheGuardian #JohnHarris

  6. I see The Strawberry Line has just been voted Britain's favourite path for 2026. By coincidence, I cycled along it, from Cheddar to Yatton, only a couple of months ago.

    #Cycling #Somerset #Path

    Former railway line named Britain's favourite path:

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgyl2

  7. 27th August

    On this day in 1969, Doris Brabham Hatt passed away in Clevedon, where she had lived with her partner, Margery, for many years.

    Doris was born & raised in Bath. She studied at Bath High School and later the Bath School of Art. Doris became a talented artist, known for using bright colours and depicting energy in her work.

    There's a chapter on Doris and Margery in Unsung Women in Somerset and they feature in On This Day in Somerset.

    #Clevedon #Bath #history #art #Somerset

  8. Today is the feast day of Decuman, a Celtic saint who came from South Wales to #Somerset in the 7th century; he is said to have arrived on a raft with a cow for companion cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/gl #travel #England #history

  9. A stream winds through fields on the Holnicote estate, #Somerset. The rewilding projects help “store water during drought… and slow water during extreme rainfall“.

    “Nature is providing solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society today,” said Ben Eardley, the project manager at the Holnicote estate.

    “By reconnecting river systems with the surrounding area and creating natural sponges in the landscape, we’ve created a system that stores water during drought, keeping wetlands and the surrounding habitats healthy, and slows water during storms and periods of extreme rainfall, helping to protect villages from the risk of flooding downstream.”

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #adaptation #carbon #carbonSinks #restoration #rewilding #reforestation #water #river #wetland #rewetting #resistance #drought #droughts #heatwaves #landSink #floods #flood #flooding

  10. A stream winds through fields on the Holnicote estate, #Somerset. The rewilding projects help “store water during drought… and slow water during extreme rainfall“.

    “Nature is providing solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society today,” said Ben Eardley, the project manager at the Holnicote estate.

    “By reconnecting river systems with the surrounding area and creating natural sponges in the landscape, we’ve created a system that stores water during drought, keeping wetlands and the surrounding habitats healthy, and slows water during storms and periods of extreme rainfall, helping to protect villages from the risk of flooding downstream.”

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #adaptation #carbon #carbonSinks #restoration #rewilding #reforestation #water #river #wetland #rewetting #resistance #drought #droughts #heatwaves #landSink #floods #flood #flooding

  11. A stream winds through fields on the Holnicote estate, #Somerset. The rewilding projects help “store water during drought… and slow water during extreme rainfall“.

    “Nature is providing solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society today,” said Ben Eardley, the project manager at the Holnicote estate.

    “By reconnecting river systems with the surrounding area and creating natural sponges in the landscape, we’ve created a system that stores water during drought, keeping wetlands and the surrounding habitats healthy, and slows water during storms and periods of extreme rainfall, helping to protect villages from the risk of flooding downstream.”

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #adaptation #carbon #carbonSinks #restoration #rewilding #reforestation #water #river #wetland #rewetting #resistance #drought #droughts #heatwaves #landSink #floods #flood #flooding

  12. A stream winds through fields on the Holnicote estate, #Somerset. The rewilding projects help “store water during drought… and slow water during extreme rainfall“.

    “Nature is providing solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society today,” said Ben Eardley, the project manager at the Holnicote estate.

    “By reconnecting river systems with the surrounding area and creating natural sponges in the landscape, we’ve created a system that stores water during drought, keeping wetlands and the surrounding habitats healthy, and slows water during storms and periods of extreme rainfall, helping to protect villages from the risk of flooding downstream.”

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #adaptation #carbon #carbonSinks #restoration #rewilding #reforestation #water #river #wetland #rewetting #resistance #drought #droughts #heatwaves #landSink #floods #flood #flooding

  13. A stream winds through fields on the Holnicote estate, #Somerset. The rewilding projects help “store water during drought… and slow water during extreme rainfall“.

    “Nature is providing solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society today,” said Ben Eardley, the project manager at the Holnicote estate.

    “By reconnecting river systems with the surrounding area and creating natural sponges in the landscape, we’ve created a system that stores water during drought, keeping wetlands and the surrounding habitats healthy, and slows water during storms and periods of extreme rainfall, helping to protect villages from the risk of flooding downstream.”

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #adaptation #carbon #carbonSinks #restoration #rewilding #reforestation #water #river #wetland #rewetting #resistance #drought #droughts #heatwaves #landSink #floods #flood #flooding

  14. #WessexWater are FINALLY introducing a #HosepipeBan across #Bath, #Bristol, most of #Dorset, #Somerset, and #Wiltshire. The ban starts on Tuesday 18 August at 00:01hrs. Please do your bit to conserve water. 💦

    wessexwater.co.uk/hosepipe-ban

  15. CW: Alcohol

    Glider liqueur is fucking delicious. Shout out Rich's, shout out Somerset

    #cider #somerset

  16. The pulpit of St Mary's, Compton Dando, Somerset
    And one of the most powerful expression of devotion I have ever seen in any church.
    #photography #StMarys #ComptonDando #Somerset #ParishChurch #HolyWeek

  17. Larvae (or triungulins) of Violet Oil Beetle (Meloe violaceus) on the outskirts of #Bath #Somerset #UK. These hang about on flowers and grab hold of the hairs of visiting solitary bees, which carry them to their nests, where they feed on the bee larvae and the stashed pollen. Oil beetles do not seriously affect bee populations - the presence of parasites and parasitoids like oil beetles is indicative of a healthy, functioning ecosystem
    #Nature #Wildlife #Insects #Beetles #Parasitism