Live jazz comes to Frome this April with Bennett & Gaga: The Duets Songbook. One night only at Frome Memorial Theatre on 18 April. Tickets £27.

The Movement Growing Around the World Picture the scene. A group of teenagers sitting together on a bench in Victoria Park. They’re technically hanging out, but no one is talking. Every head is tilted downwards, thumbs flicking endlessly across glowing screens. For many parents, it’s become one of the defining images of modern childhood. But a fast-growing international movement is asking whether things have gone too far. And here in Somerset, one local campaigner believes Fr

Daisy chasing the sunset! If I’m honest, I didn’t book the flights just for the sunsets. Last year, a week after his 24th birthday, we lost our son Ben. There’s no easy way to write that. The world carries on at full volume and you learn, slowly, how to keep putting one foot in front of the other again. Ben & Daisy So part of me wanted to go somewhere far away. Somewhere hot and noisy and completely unfamiliar. Somewhere I wouldn’t turn a corner and half expect to see him. Fi

In a quiet room at Catherine House, something rather special happens. Children shuffle in, sometimes shy at first. Residents sit waiting, some curious, some quietly reserved. Then the music begins. A familiar melody fills the space, and everything shifts. This is The Kindness Connection , an inclusive intergenerational music group founded by Willow Harwood , created to bring people together through song, joy and shared humanity. Music That Connects The aim is simple, yet powe