Burnham Jubilee bunting ban lifted by council

Bunting can be strung from the lamp-posts in the high street of a Somerset town, the county council has said. Burnham Chamber of Trade and Commerce said on Thursday the authority had refused permission for it to hang the decorations from lamp-posts. The council said on Thursday a lamp-post fell and killed a child in […]

Villagers go for bunting world record

Residents of Morchard Bishop, a village in mid Devon, are hoping to break the world record for the longest amount of bunting. The bunting will be put up around the village on Friday as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. But the villagers still need to make at least another 0.6 miles of red, white […]