Somerset Confidential

17/12/2025

Somerset Confidential® takes a look at the plight of the trade and asks if one of the biggest contributors to our economy is facing an existential crisis.
We speak to businesses in Taunton, Bath and Aller
https://somersetconfidential.substack.com/p/cakes-and-ale-but-for-how-much-longer

15/12/2025

As the proclaim that the state of 87% of England’s bathing sites is either good or excellent, analysis of the figures by Somerset Confidential® shows that they are anything but around . We take a look at why.
https://somersetconfidential.substack.com/p/dont-swim-here

12/12/2025

You may already have read that Cllr Michael , a councillor for has been found guilty after taking part if a protest. What you may not have read is that 2 trials on the same issue, reached very different conclusions.
We decided to take a closer look.
https://somersetconfidential.substack.com/p/is-the-law-an-ass

11/12/2025

As Council still fails to publish their Lessons Learned report on the Life Factory from the public, we have taken the decision to publish the majority of the text. We believe this is in the public interest.
https://somersetconfidential.substack.com/p/lessons-learned

11/12/2025

Why is Council hiding a “Lessons Learned” report from the public? We have seen a copy and are publishing some of the material in the public interest. We now know that 2 Town Deal projects have been terminated.
https://somersetconfidential.substack.com/p/somerset-council-terminates-2-glastonbury

09/12/2025

A new report from corroborates everything we have said about Council’s financial emergency over the past 12 months.
So this is both our apology in the modern sense and our apology, an explanation, in the classical sense.
https://somersetconfidential.substack.com/p/somerset-council-an-apology

08/12/2025

How did an estate agent known for selling a lot of listed buildings, end up in court for altering one of their prestigious (listed) offices in ? Seems planning enforcement in B&NES Council is taken a lot more seriously than it is at Council
https://somersetconfidential.substack.com/p/national-estate-agent-prosecuted

05/12/2025

Who gets the money from selling Christmas trees to shops in ? Why is B&NES Cllr Kevin Guy happy with the budget? And why are the effectively restarting their review of Council?

https://somersetconfidential.substack.com/p/boundary-bashing-chard-games-and

03/12/2025

Zombie Carnival Park
Just when you thought it was safe....an application for a Carnival Park, quashed by a High Court Judge in 2022, is returning to haunt residents of South Somerset. James Garrett investigates.
https://somersetconfidential.substack.com/p/zombie-carnival-park

03/12/2025

Congratulations to BBC Somerset, who late on 1 December published the same article on the Long Load illegal caravan park that we published on 28 November.
What was the point given the article was already out in the public domain? They added nothing to our piece and published it 3 days later.
No doubt they will now claim it was "their" piece.

02/12/2025

As a new report from Grant Thornton to Somerset Council’s Audit Committee raises serious questions around the Life Factory and the management of the Glastonbury Town Deal, it looks as if another project is in trouble.
https://somersetconfidential.substack.com/p/more-glastonbury-contagion

01/12/2025