A nature reserve is being created as part of a key walking and cycling route across rural Somerset. Volunteers working on ...
On the wide, open Somerset Levels it’s wonderfully sleepy. During a walk across the marshes from the village of Westonzoyland, there’s absolutely no one else around. A stone marker in a fenced-off ...
A Somerset Levels farmer says his land could become "unfarmable" if flooding continues. Alan Franks, 78, whose family has been in dairy farming since his farmer began working the land on Blakeway in ...
The Somerset Levels and Moors is a unique flat landscape that extends for about 170,000 acres (70,000 ha) across parts of the north and centre of the county of Somerset in the West of England. It ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
It has been three years since the Somerset Levels were hit by flooding and, in that time, much has changed. Farms have had to change the way they manage their land, both on the levels themselves and ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Dredging took place on the Somerset Levels along the rivers Tone and Parrett at a cost of £6m Dredging on the Somerset Levels has made a "real difference" in preventing flooding, a campaign group has ...