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.