EDF Energy has made a cash offer to Sedgemoor Council in an attempt to end a row over the cost of scrutinising their plans for a new nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point.

The 272-thousand pound sum falls short of the two-point-tow million EDF was originally asked to pay.

But the Council's expected to accept the money, and approve plans to pay a further quarter of a million themselves - to examine the controversial application.