TWO politically-minded youngsters have been voted in as members of the UK Youth Parliament. Lydia Cheyne and Qita Iseley now represent Sedgemoor and Mendip and join a body of 300 to 400 young people elected to represent the views and priorities of 11
SEDGEMOOR District Council has stepped-up its fight against plans for a Somerset super-council by asking a Government minister to Burnham and Highbridge. Councillor Duncan McGinty has invited the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
CARE and education at Fair Start Nursery in Burnham has been scrutinised in an Ofsted report released this week. The Princess Street centre was told its quality and standards of its education was 'good' and its care of children was 'satisfactory'. Ofsted's
BURNHAM ambulance station has this week been handed a cheque for £2,972 following a successful fundraising event in the town. Martin Robinson, the station's paramedic supervisor, received the money from Tom Ashton and Carol Davies of the Burnham Community
THE third annual general meeting of Burnham RNLI is being held on Friday, March 2. The venue will be the town's Motor Boat and Sailing Club on South Esplanade. Interested members of the general public and invited VIP guests, who wish to attend the meeting
DISABILITY charity Scope is calling on people in Burnham and Highbridge to take part in 16-mile fundraising trek. The walk, mapped out from Burnham Jetty to Brean Down, is planned for Sunday, April 1, and should take between four and five hours. This
BURNHAM and Highbridge Choral Society and the University of the Third Age are to be the unlikely stars on a TV programme on marital aids. The town residents were being interview by BBC2 series Balderdash and Piffle, which is looking at the origins of
BURNHAM people took trip back in time on Saturday (February 10) as part of a special fundraising night. Moose International's Governor's New Year's party is one of the group's regular social events and was this year based on a Victorian theme and collected
SCHOOL opportunities for Somerset's dyslexic children have come under fire this week, with an MP vowing to petition Government for the county's dyslexia-friendly status to be revoked. In recent weeks, our sister paper the Bridgwater Mercury has highlighted
