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Category: Wildlife

Posted on February 15, 2019February 15, 2019

Come and have a hoot at the Yeovil Country Park Bird Trail

This February half term between Saturday 16th and Sunday 24th, South Somerset District Council’s Countryside Rangers are running their self-led bird trail that will test your bird identification skills as you follow the bird arrows into woods of Ninesprings. Full story: Read more

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Posted on February 14, 2019

Help Save this Year’s Little Tern Chicks on Chesil Beach

Photo: Thali Hamilton

The RSPB and partners launch an urgent Just Giving appeal to raise the money needed to run the annual Little Tern Recovery Project at Chesil Beach this summer, due to a shortfall in grant funding. Full story: Read more

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Posted on November 26, 2018

SOMERSET’S BIG GIVE CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE LAUNCHES TO PROTECT THE COUNTY’S HERONS

Grey Heron. Photo: Graham Hall

Somerset Wildlife Trust’s project ‘Homes for Herons’ has been selected to take part in The Big Give Christmas Challenge – the UK’s biggest online match funding campaign –  which helps charities raise funds for good causes during a week-long campaign. Full story: Read more

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  • Friday's One-Day Cup round-up July 24, 2026
    Middlesex, Durham and Leicestershire join Nottinghamshire with two wins from two in the One-Day Cup.
  • Dad who murdered four-week-old son jailed for 18 years July 24, 2026
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    Mike Bell said the iconic Victorian hotel has repeatedly been broken into since it closed in 2025.
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