Somerset residents are at risk of being 'short-changed' for hosting a proposed new power station at Hinkley, according to local councils.

The County Council and two other authorities are seeking a Community Benefit Contribution scheme, because EDF Energy's twenty million pound fund is not a fair deal.

The plant would take nine years to build, operate for sixty, and could require radioactive waste to be stored there for a century - meaning the region would get less than a hundred and twenty thousand pounds a year.