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The Met Office records the United Kingdom's highest temperature in June after a provisional high of 37.3 C is recorded in Santon Downham, Suffolk, breaking the previous record high set yesterday in Somerset, while wildfires spread in Derbyshire burning approximately 22 hectares across the High Peak moor.
2026-06-26

Three men, including the pilot, are killed when a light aircraft crashes into the ocean off Goolwa South, South Australia.
2026-02-6

Two people are killed after a light aircraft crashes in Fátima, Tocantins, Brazil.
2025-11-2

Two light aircraft, a Lancair 360 MK II and a Cessna 172S, collide midair at Marana Regional Airport near Tucson, Arizona, United States, killing two people.
2025-02-19

A light aircraft crashes in Nasrec, Johannesburg, South Africa, killing all three people on board.
2023-01-15

The English Environment Agency issues two severe flood warnings where there is a "danger to life" for Somerset in South West England.
2014-02-6

An inquest opens into the deaths of 7 people killed in last Friday's multiple vehicle pile-up on the M5 in the English county of Somerset.
2011-11-10

A 27-vehicle traffic collision on the M5 Motorway, near Taunton in the English county of Somerset, results in at least 7 deaths, 35 injuries and the closure of the motorway.
2011-11-4

Two people are killed after a hot air balloon crashes onto a bowling green in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, United Kingdom.
2011-01-1

A hoard of 52,503 Roman coins dating to the third century is found in Somerset, England.
2010-07-8