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Shropshire Youth Worker Jo Cox – who came with us on the very first Bridgwater-Czech twinning trip back in 1992, recently achieved Leonardo Funding from the European union to take a group of Shropshire […]

Zdena Biggsova and a group of 30 teachers from the Kladno area have just completed a week long tour around Ireland and taken in a bit of England and Wales on the way. Flying to […]

As a result of a succesful bid to the EU Leonardo fund , a group of family centre workers from the Uherske Hradiste region of the Czech Republic have just been able to complete […]

For the past 2 years Bridgwater travellers have met representatives from the Italian town of Priverno at the Uherske Hradiste wine festival. Priverno -a medeaval mountain town situated just south of Rome and midway […]

This has not been the best summer here in the UK. However, for climate change enthusiasts it’s been perfect, clearly demonstrating that even world famous weatherman Michael Fish would be absolutely no use at […]

The Arabska Gymnasium in Prague 6 has been an annual visitor to Bridgwater since the link first started back in 1996 when Dr Jan Soucek met Mr Andrew Pole in the Bridgwater Embassy in […]

Bridgwater’s VOICE OF THE PEOPLE choir have just returned from a succesful 4 days tour of the Lazio region of Italy which included the town of Priverno – twinned with Uherske Hradiste , and […]

In 1957 Bridgwater set up it’s first ever twinning. In the style of the day this was with a French town in order to strengthen the ‘Entente Cordiale’. Whilst most Somerset towns picked up […]