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153 properties around Becket Road in Worle were evacuated after police found suspicious items in a fraud arrest. Bomb disposal destroyed them; the cordon stays.
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Remembrance
Remembrance Sunday in North Somerset: Parades on 8 November
Remembrance Sunday is 8 November. Parade times for Weston's Grove Park, Portishead High Street, Nailsea and Clevedon, and the road closures to plan around.
Christmas
Santa's Grotto in Weston-super-Mare 2026: Dates and Prices
Grand Pier grotto 5 to 24 December at £19.95 a child; Noah's Ark's Santa's Library from 28 November at £13.95. Grinch visits, dog grotto and booking rules.
Christmas
Weston Panto 2026: Aladdin at the Playhouse, 4 to 31 Dec
The Playhouse's 2026 panto is Aladdin with Michael Goble, 4 to 31 December. All 48 performance times, ticket prices from £25, and Christmas Eve shows.
Portishead
Portishead Missing Teenager: Body Found in Police Search
Police searching for George, 18, missing from Portishead since 17 September, say a body was recovered from water near Newport on Sunday 27 September.
North Somerset
North Somerset Planning: Call-In Powers End on 31 October
From 31 October your councillor can no longer call a planning application in to committee in North Somerset. Councillors vote on the new rules on Wednesday.
Business
Allegro Adds 25,000 sq ft in Clevedon and Portishead
Allegro opens a Portishead warehouse on 5 October and a second Clevedon unit on 1 November, adding 25,000 sq ft of fulfilment space in North Somerset.
North Somerset
North Somerset Parks Handed to Town Councils: Full List
Lake Grounds, Grove Park and 21 named play areas are lined up to leave North Somerset Council for town and parish councils. Every site, town by town.
Local Info
North Somerset house prices: £313,638 in July, up 3.8%
The average North Somerset home was £313,638 in July 2026, up 3.8% while England managed 1.1%. Growth has halved since June. Prices by type, town and buyer.
North Somerset
North Somerset House Prices Dip to £313,638 as Growth Halves
The average fell £1,362 in July to £313,638, the first monthly drop since February, and annual growth halved from 7.6% to 3.8%. Flats are still below 2023.
Council
North Somerset Council Budget Gap Doubles to £12m Next Year
North Somerset Council now faces a £12.1m gap next year, up from £5.5m in February, and forecasts an £8.7m overspend this year. Cabinet meets Wednesday.
Weston-super-Mare
Weston CIC Is a Double Female Business Awards Finalist
Blessings in Action CIC is a finalist in two Female Business Awards categories, and seeks Weston adults for free Street View Arts workshops and a museum show.
Hutton and Locking
Hutton and Locking By-Election Result: Reform UK Wins Seat
Reform UK won Hutton and Locking with 706 votes on 26.31% turnout. The Conservative vote in the ward fell from 834 in 2023 to 281, and the Lib Dems came second.
North Somerset runs from the Bristol Channel to the edge of the Mendips, and it holds two quite different sorts of place. Weston-super-Mare is the largest town, a seaside resort with the pier and the sands and the council’s offices. Portishead, Clevedon and Nailsea face Bristol and empty out towards it every morning. Yatton, Congresbury and Winscombe sit inland between them.
The North Somerset Post covers all of it. One thing worth stating plainly at the top: North Somerset Council is its own unitary authority and is not part of Somerset Council, so anything you read about Somerset’s bins or council tax almost certainly does not apply here. We report from this council’s own record, with a link to the document on every fact.
Nothing is published here that we cannot link to a source.