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Liberal Democrat-run Somerset Council wants to put up council tax bills this year by a staggering 11 per cent – more than double the rise allowed by the...

At a Somerset Council meeting on Wednesday 17th December, more than 100 members of the public came along to support my petition calling for Salmon Parade and...

Somerset Conservatives have warned that the Autumn Budget places further pressure on working families, small businesses and rural communities at a time when...

Cllr Diogo Rodrigues has warned that Bridgwater’s new one-way system is causing chaos for residents, after raising the issue on BBC Politics West last weekend...

The Liberal Democrats at Somerset Council have been unable to confirm whether its new £3 million Pay and Grading Review will help reduce the authority’s...

Bridgwater East and Bawdrip Councillor Diogo Rodrigues has said the traffic chaos seen across Bridgwater is the direct result of a series of poor decisions by...

A Planning Service Motion, presented by Councillor Diogo Rodrigues, Leader of the Opposition, has been unanimously backed, cross party, by Somerset Council’s...

Bridgwater East and Bawdrip Councillor Diogo Rodrigues has launched a petition calling on Somerset Council to reverse the recent one-way system introduced on...

When my family moved to the UK I was just a year old, a baby brought here by parents searching for opportunity. They came for what Britain stood for: good...