A Staffordshire town hall has come under fire from local residents who claim that wedding receptions at Burton Town Hall are accountable for severe traffic nuisances and unlawful parking.

The Town Hall is a frequent venue for wedding party’s, including spectacular Asian weddings which can draw anything up to 1,000 guests per event.

Staffordshire borough councillor Bill Ganley claims that the events are creating a public nuisance and confirmed his belief that the police and council are doing little to alleviate the problems.

He said: -

“You get between 500 and 1,000 people rolling through for these events during the course of the day. These include lads driving top-end cars which, understandably they like to parade around in.

It is causing an issue with traffic problems and vehicles parking on the pavement. A lot of businesses and residents are worried and concerned about this.”

I would like to see the police liaise with organisers to try and address these issues, and if that doesn’t work I’d like to see them do their job and make sure people are driving safely and not letting off fireworks in the street, which is illegal.

If the council know the dates of these weddings - and they do - they should have traffic enforcement officers out there.”

The local council are said to be currently investigating ways to address the issues raised by Councillor Ganely.

A young bride and groom were horrified when they realised that their 52 strong wedding party would be left to go hungry when the caterers that they had booked for their reception failed to materialise.

Chef James Kirkby, 24 and his new bride Hannah, 21 assumed that their big day was destined to end in shambles when they arrived at their local village hall in Martinstown, Weymouth for their reception to find it empty - not a morsel of food or a single caterer in sight.

The mortified Mother of the bride made a number of frantic calls to nearby pubs and restaurants without any success. Fortunately, after a number of failed attempts she managed to source a Fish & Chip Shop nearby willing to supply a whopping 52 portions of fish and chips.
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The SOS call was received at the Marlboro Restaurant & Fish and Chip Shop where owner Mike Johnson saved the day and delivered the meals to the wedding party within an hour.

Mother of the bride Katy Phillips said:-

“We had these giant gold charger plates so we had the fish and chips in their papers on those. Everyone really enjoyed it and got into the spirit of things, the ushers were there handing all the food out. We were nearly left with a lot of hungry guests but it was quite funny in the end. James and Hannah had a lovely day.”

The happy couple had to shell out £200 for the emergency order but have since deemed it worth every single penny for the most memorable fish supper that they’ll ever have!