British adventurer becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a hydrogen gas balloon ⊖
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Alicia Hempleman-Adams, 36, from Bath, Somerset, took four days to make the unprecedented crossing in an open basket - with ice build-up on the balloon putting the team in real danger.
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Metal detectorist pays off his mortgage after unearthing rare Roman ring worth £75,000 in muddy field ⊕
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Former army soldier and lorry driver Kevin Minto and his friend Phil Costello unearthed the ring while they were searching for treasure close to the Somerset village of Ilminster.
How the ‘Picasso of ponds’ went from shaping golf courses to making freshwater homes for wildlife ⊕
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Shaun Hancox has created scores of ponds for rewilding projects across Britain – and he says there’s a lot more to it than digging a hole
He is known as “the Picasso of ponds” but the tableaux being c…
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Murdered, missing, unidentified … the tragic stories that inspire Britain’s cold case investigators ⊖⊖
When Dave Grimstead left the police after more than 30 years, he knew just what he wanted to do: solve some of its most intractable mysteries. The founder of Locate International explains why the cou…
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Aristocrat who advertised for 'good breeder' and 'castle-trained' wife loses £1.2million court battle with ex ⊖
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Sir Benjamin Slade has lost a High Court battle to stop his ex-wife, Lady Pauline Slade, selling a £585,000 Somerset home she was given in their 1994 divorce settlement.
Somerset detectorist strikes gold with ‘spectacular’ Roman ring find ⊕
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Kevin Minto’s discovery near Ilminster, showing goddess Victoria, has been acquired with coin hoard for £78,000
When Kevin Minto, a lorry driver, former soldier and keen metal detectorist, came upon s…
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‘Hold your nerve and trust nature’: birds, bats and butterflies rebound at Somerset rewilding farm ⊕⊕
Letting nature take over at a former dairy farm has resulted in a surge of species in just three years
Three years of rewilding on a former dairy farm in east Somerset have seen recorded bird species …
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Moment dog walker and her pet cockapoo miraculously miss being crushed to death by falling tree ⊖⊖
Yuan Zhang, 40, had been walking her dog near a cemetery in Bath, Somerset, when the frightening incident unfolded on May 26.
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Country diary: The mayhem and mystery of inland gulls | Derek Niemann ⊖
Frome, Somerset: Thirty miles from shore, they drift up the hill, dominate the church and fill the sky. But they still carry the whiff of salty air
As summer approaches, the pirates of the promenade w…
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Celebrity favourite eco-paradise famed for its £1,000-a-night cabins is criticised for spraying weedkiller over its farmland ⊖⊖
Hundreds of locals and campaigners have signed a petition calling for the management team of The Newt in Somerset to stop using glyphosate - a pesticide widely associated with cancer.