BBC presenter Clinton Rogers told Burnham-On-Sea.com: I am delighted and honoured to have been asked to turn on Burnham's lights. I have four children who spent many wonderful days here on the beach, so Burnham is a special place for me.
It's great to see so much effort being put into the switch-on here in Burnham and to see it so well supported.
A man was rushed to hospital during the afternoon after suffering a suspected heart attack. Burnham fire crewmembers who were taking part in the lights switch-on dashed along the High Street to help the middle-aged man in Adam Street before paramedics arrived a few minutes later in an ambulance.
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Gallery of photos from the 2007 lights switch-on
Source link: http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/2007/christmas-lights-switch-24-11-07.shtml
ONE AFTERNOON last year, at the height of Israel's month-long war in Lebanon, I was driving with my Lebanese translator through a neighbourhood that had just been hit by another Israeli air strike. All around us lay an eerie, apocalyptic landscape of rubble-strewn roads and ripped apartment buildings with their windows blown out, curtains billowing like distress flags on a storm-stricken ship.
'Can you smell it?' asked Mohammed Ajami, my translator, sniffing the humid air wafting through the open car window as we snaked our way through the bomb-blasted streets. 'It's that old-time Beirut war stench; cordite, smoke and garbage.'
This weekend, fears were growing that Beirut's old-time war stench might again be set to permeate the city as Lebanon plunged once more into political uncertainty and faced the possibility of civil strife
Source link: http://www.sundayherald.com/oped/opinion/display.var.1857694.0.dispelling_lebanons_stench_of_war.php
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