I’ve just finished an OU English module (E301, The Art of English) which references a number of books I determined to read once the module was over. Listing them here in case you are in need of suggestions…and please feel Read more
Burton Community Association General Meeting Monday 12 May 7:30pm at the Old House at Home At the meeting the Chair of the BCA, Amanda Read, presented the Chair’s Report for Period March-May 2014. The report summarises BCA activities since its Read more
The book selected for June is Spare Brides by Adele Parks New Year’s Eve, 1920. The Great War is over and it’s a new decade of glamorous promise. But a generation of men and women who survived the extreme trauma Read more
White male, 40-50 years old, approx 6ft, short brown hair, spectacles, beige jacket, greyish trousers. Seen walking into multiple cul-de-sacs peering into ground floor windows and also into cars on driveways then leaving and repeated on opposite side of the road. Last Read more
Possibly a vagrant seen at 7am and again later on in the morning. Alistair Caie NHW Co-ordinator tel 218072
On 10th May at around 2145 hours a large vehicle, possibly a land rover, shone its lights into a detached property in Grittleton and then proceeded to drive very slowly up the road with the lights turned off before driving Read more
This year BCA is backing the village fete and stands to gain £300 or more from this one event. This income is essential if we are to realise much of the Beautiful Burton project, which includes a WW1 memorial bench Read more
This month we will be reading ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ by Tracy Chevalier. Girl With a Pearl Earring tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer. Read more
The Burton Book Club meets on the third Monday of every month, at 19:30 in the Old House @ Home. Books are picked at random out of a hat from members’ nominations. Each month the selected book will be posted on this Read more
At last night’s general meeting of the Community Association the Burton Bridge Group was born. Championed by David Staincliffe, the group already boasts eight members. As David said, ‘the group is open to players of all standards, including the complete Read more