The Liberal Democrats stormed to victory last Friday (6th May) to take control of the new Somerset Council, winning 61 seats out of 110 with the Conservatives the next best with 36. 

Taking on the government on sewage in our rivers, discounted bus travel for teenagers, more safe cycle routes and planting 150,000 trees every year have been announced as key Liberal Democrat proposals in their manifesto for the Somerset Council elections on being held on 5^th May to be published today.

Somerset Liberal Democrats are fielding their biggest ever team of council candidates for elections to the new unitary authority being held on 5th May.

On a visit to Somerset the Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has announced a flagship manifesto commitment from the Somerset Lib Dems to build 1,000 new low and zero carbon council and social rent houses per year.

As Somerset Council elections loom, the Liberal Democrats are pledging to save county farms, saying that "watching them sell off the family silver has been heartbreaking".