A former St Peter’s High School pupil is set to breath life into a “tired” Burnham pub, starting with major facelift costing hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Justin Cracknell, who grew up in Burnham, and his business partner Jon McKee recently bought The Ship from the East Anglian brewery, Adnams, and now own the freehold.

Mr Cracknell, 39, said: “We want to turn The Ship into something good and make it somewhere that people in the town can be proud of."

The pub will close in late autumn for refurbishment and re-open before Christmas.