EDF Energy, the firm behind plans to build a controversial new power station in Somerset, says residents welcome potential investment in the community.

A package of twenty million pounds is on the table for Hinkley and the wider Sedgemoor area, after local councils criticised the original offer of just one million.

EDF says it expects to spend three-hundred million pounds in total on mitigating the impact of the project, including a hundred million on benefiting the community.