A GRANT from West Somerset District Council has helped provide equipment for a children's play area beside the village hall in Bicknoller.

The £5,000 award came from the council's highly-successful Rural Initiatives Fund, which helps community projects in rural areas of the district.

It was presented to the village hall committee, which spent £7,746 in total, by the council's chairman, Councillor Barbara Child, who is also the ward councillor for West Quantock.

Full story in the West Somerset edition of Thursday's Somerset County Gazette.