A WOMAN has pleaded not guilty to murdering a man who died from stab wounds in a Somerset village.

Hayley Keating, 31, of Forts Orchard, Chilthorne Domer, near Yeovil, denied the charge when she appeared via videolink at Bristol Crown Court.

She is accused of killing Matthew Wormleighton, 45, at a property in Forts Orchard on May 14.

Mr Wormleighton died in hospital from a single stab wound.

Keating was remanded in custody at today's hearing and a provisional date for her trial, which is expected to last seven days, was set at December 13.