Somerset County Council's Highways team is continuing work to remove diseased and dangerous ash trees , with the latest safety scheme, on the Polden Hills section of the A39 Bath Road between the Crandon Bridge traffic signals at Bawdrip and the A361 Pipers Inn junction at Ashcott, will take place across two weeks.

Work starts on Monday 19 April, between 9am and 3.30pm each day, and is scheduled to end on Friday 30 April. The road will be reopened to traffic outside these times and during the weekend of April 24-25.

The operation will see a number of dead or diseased trees affected by ash dieback removed.

The disease was first recorded in nursery stock in Britain 2012, before being found affecting trees in the wider environment in Norfolk and Suffolk in 2013.

The disease has now spread throughout much of the country and is well established in Somerset, found across the county, with many trees in areas such as the Mendips already dead or dying.

Somerset has a high density of ash trees, meaning the impact from Ash Dieback will be a highly significant, with big changes to the landscape.