Somerset Council has voted through cuts to services totalling £35m, as well as an increase in people's council tax bills. The Liberal Democrat-run authority agreed its budget for 2024/25 at a ...

Somerset Council have declared a financial emergency as it voted through 'urgent' measures to close a £100m budget gap amid fears that it could go bust like Birmingham. The local authority was ...

A new Somerset Council will come into being, which the current Somerset County Council says will free up £18.5m a year. It will be one of the largest unitary councils in England, serving a ...

A council has confirmed that in a "worst case scenario", 450 of its staff will be made redundant, to avoid it effectively going bankrupt. Somerset Council has opened a formal 45-day consultation ...