IN your Maldon and Burnham Standard this week:
• Drunk teen who crashed car three times is spared jail
• Business rates rise ‘will kill our High Street’
• Delight as town’s carnival is saved from the axe
• Call for War of the Worlds statue to be built in Burnham
• Town will take in Syrian refugees is residents crowdfund for them
• Outrage over report on banning memorial bench flowers
• Mown moan: Stand-off over poor grass cutting
• Headteachers join fight to stop funding cutbacks
• Council tax hike is ‘excellent value for money’
• Ex-footballer gives talk on religion at Purleigh church
• Volunteers battle ‘lazy and selfish’ fly-tippers
• Is police station move best for town?
• Hamper campaign is helped by Dragon’s Den star Theo Paphitis
• Pubs win accolades for best district watering hole
• Doctor performs second parody song about NHS funding crisis
• Dog breeder Steve talks terries on TV
• Pictures – Youngsters get Lost in Space at library event
• Pictures – Half term nature workshop
Plus all your sport and entertainment news.
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