Page 8 - Highbridge News Today

Burnham and Highbridge Town Council has thanked Police and Somerset Council for their swift response in evicting a large group of travellers from the town this week.

Crowds of people enjoyed the Front Garden Music Festival in Highbridge at the weekend with free entertainment for all ages.

A team of dedicated volunteers has this week completed planting of all the flower beds along Burnham-On-Sea seafront.

A Burnham-On-Sea choir has announced the date of a concert raising funds for a local wildife charity.

More than 20 members, helpers and carers at a Burnham-On-Sea group which helps people with learning difficulties have headed off on a summer break this week.

Burnham-On-Sea Police have arrested two people after a burglary at a Highbridge petrol station.

Police are searching for 32-year-old Jalessa Richardson in the death of Ashley Smith, 37, outside an illegal club in the Highbridge section of the Bronx earlier this month.

Burnham-On-Sea & Highbridge Cadets have been making dozens of poppies out of knots and rope as part of their tribute for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Burnham-On-Sea Royal British Legion has confirmed its plans to hold a special event this summer to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-day landings.

Transit advocates and local electeds are again calling on Mayor Adams to raise the threshold for a city program offering half-off subway and bus rides to lower-income New Yorkers, demanding that the discount be available to those making less than twice the federal poverty line.