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 ...

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As the UK government declares the extensive flooding of the Somerset Levels as a major incident, calling in the assistance of the army and red cross to reach some of the marooned villages, Horizon:51 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Somerset councillor has called on the government to protect the future of the Somerset Levels by designating it as the UK's newest national landscape. National landscapes were previously known as ...

The study has identified the Somerset Levels as an area that could be lost to rising sea levels Credit: Amy Whitewick Parts of Somerset and Cornwall are at risk of flooding from 'inevitable' rising ...

More than two months on from some of the worst flooding ever seen in Somerset, a draft 20-year flood action plan is being prepared to hand to environment secretary Owen Paterson. Mr Paterson has asked ...