The North Somerset village of Banwell is proving particularly popular.

More people in Bristol want to move out to villages

North Somerset follows in the footsteps of Bristol and Bath to hire a private firm to fine people who litter.

On the spot litter fines coming to North Somerset

Dr Liam Fox, the Conservative MP for North Somerset and former International Trade Secretary has been selected as a candidate for the post of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation

North Somerset MP Liam Fox in running to be leader of World Trade Organisation

Polly Robertson fundraised more than £11,000 for Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm.

Girl reopens zoo after raising thousands for animals and staff

Marjorie Prescott, who now lives in a Clevedon nursing home, can't have visitors because of the lockdown.

Great-grandmother celebrates 100th birthday without her family due to lockdown

A group of teenage friends are campaigning for safer train crossings following the death of their friend Evie Wright in 2018.

Youth group meet with Network Rail to demand safer level crossing in Weston

Authority has agreed a 25-year lease for land at the rear of the boat house, subject to funding and planning permission.

Skate and wheels park given go-ahead by council for Portishead Lake Grounds

A third of pupils have been struck down with a flu-like illness at a school. Sixty pupils at Backwell Junior School have been affected.

Sixty students hit by flu-like virus at junior school

Police have received multiple reports of a man in a black rubber suit jumping out and making indecent gestures around Claverham and Yatton.

Man in 'gimp suit' scaring people in North Somerset village

The Grade 1 listed landmark is the only pier still accessible in the UK.

Clevedon Pier celebrates 150 years

Searches were continuing today following the discovery of a device near Appletree Court in the town

Two men released on bail following explosives incident in Worle

One of the baby rabbits at Animal Farm Adventure Park in Brean is missing. The attraction says it can't survive without its mother's milk

Three-week-old bunny stolen from North Somerset attraction

Bristol Airport has submitted a planning application which could see 12 million passengers travel through the port a year by mid 2020s. 

Bristol Airport submits plans to hold extra two million people a year

A man who murdered his wife and left their two young sons to find her body at their home in Nailsea has been jailed for life.

Husband jailed for life for stabbing wife to death

The money to pay for Lorraine Robinson's job in Clevedon had been cut by North Somerset Council due to 'funding pressures'.

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