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The Latest Breaking News from Somerset

'Shy' Johnny Depp prefers 'quiet life' in Somerset mansion

"That's one of the great things about Britain, and especially Somerset. I can just be me — and that's nice."

Bristol Post

Johnny Depp raves about quiet life on 850-acre Somerset estate: ‘British people are cool’

The £13m property includes 12 bedrooms, eight bathrooms, walled gardens and a dairy farm

The Independent UK

Johnny Depp says he loves new life in UK countryside after Hollywood hellraising years

After the parties and bright lights of America, Johnny Depp now prefers to spend his time in the UK and has opened up about why Somerset is the place he loves to spend his life

Daily Mirror

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Johnny Depp raves about quiet life on 850-acre Somerset estate: ‘British people are cool’

The £13m property includes 12 bedrooms, eight bathrooms, walled gardens and a dairy farm

The Independent UK

Johnny Depp shuns LA for quieter life in Somerset at his £13m estate which allows him to ‘just be me’

The Pirates of the Caribbean actor, 59, bought the 850-acre West Country estate in 2014

Evening Standard

Police update after man in wheelchair 'punched to floor' near BSB bar in Bristol

Avon and Somerset Police are attempting to identify the victim

Bristol Post

Ex-soldier who murdered neighbours has minimum term cut by appeal judges

Afghan veteran Collin Reeves knifed Stephen and Jennifer Chapple six times each at their home in Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, Somerset.

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Gran to sell family home bought for just £200 - 102 years after moving in

Nancy Gifford moved into a three-bed house in Street, Somerset, when she was just two-years-old in 1921 when her parents bought it for £200 - but now she's looking to sell the home she's lived in for over a century

Daily Mirror

Screwfix grows with new UK and France stores - and confirms wholesale deal that saves 400 jobs

It comes as the Somerset DIY brand’s parent firm Kingfisher reported profits had dropped by a fifth, with a further dip expected

Birmingham Post

Family pay tribute to 'much-loved' James Bruce who died at home in Bristol

Avon and Somerset Police continue to investigate the 43-year-old's death earlier this month

Bristol Post

Escape to the Country buyer in tears by Nicki Chapman's choice

Martin and Sarah were on the hunt for a country home in Somerset

Liverpool Echo

Moment police officers on galloping horses chase driver spotted using mobile phone

Police spotted the man driving through East Reach in Taunton, Somerset and quickly turned their horses around before catching up with the motorist at traffic lights

Daily Mirror

UK mounted police chase down man holding mobile phone while driving

Officers on horseback deployed to reduce use of phones by motorist; driver faces £200 fine and six points on licence

The Guardian - UK

Mounted police chase down driver using phone at wheel

Officers from Avon and Somerset Police are seen pursuing a driver in a video shared to social media.

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Birmingham Post

Cheese producer Wyke Farms opens new £10m butter dairy

The Somerset-based business said the new facility would help it to produce products for its growing export markets

Bristol Post

Nearly half of Avon & Somerset Police officers are fresh out of college

Chief Constable says she understands public dissatisfaction but it will take years to get recruits up to speed

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a special place’: Somerset Levels star in new David Attenborough series

Wild Isles reveals places such as Ham Hall RSPB reserve are as rich and diverse an ecosystem as Serengeti, says BBC

Bristol Post

Twenty-six serving Avon & Somerset cops have committed misconduct or gross misconduct

Chief Constable revealed the figures during a grilling by the police & crime commissioner

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Autosport

Why Button is living out his Days of Thunder NASCAR dream

Who knew that Tom Cruise would have such an impact on a nine-year old Jenson Button? Little did we know that the kid from Frome in Somerset, who was just beginning to tear up the kart tracks of the UK and then onwards to Formula 1 stardom, was so in…

The Independent UK

Somerset charity to deliver 1,000 schoolbags to children in Syria and Turkey

School in a Bag delivers learning supplies to disadvantaged children across the globe.

Daily Mirror

Screaming mum fights off man who tried to drag her son, 8, into his car on way to school

Avon and Somerset Police are investigating after the man pulled up in a 'dirty white estate car' before jumping out and grabbing the child on a street in Yeovil on Monday

The Independent UK

Man charged with murdering great-great-grandfather

James O’Connor, from Hilltown in Dundee, Scotland is due before magistrates in Somerset on Thursday accused of killing 89-year-old Frederick Burge.

Daily Mirror

North Coast 500 in Scotland and Somerset's Cheddar Gorge named best UK roads to drive

UK motorists have shared some of their favourite roads around the country to drive - including Snake Pass in the Peak District National Park

The Guardian - UK

Stop giving daggers to retiring soldiers, says coroner after Somerset murders

Collin Reeves used ceremonial dagger he received upon leaving the army to kill couple in 2017

Bristol Post

Man stole two showers from Bristol B&Q before being confronted by staff and fleeing the store

Avon and Somerset Police has released a CCTV image of a man they would like to identify in connection with the theft

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