PoS(MRU)094 Sensitive high resolution radio imaging of supernova remnants in the M82 starburst D. Fenech ∗ , A. Pedlar, R. Beswick,T. W. B. Muxlow, M. K. Argo Jodrell Bank Observatory E-mail: Danielle.Fenech@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk High resolution radio observations of the nearby starburst galaxy M82 at both 1.6 GHz and 5 GHz are presented. The combination of simultaneous Global VLBI and MERLIN observations of M82, made on the 3rd Mar. 2005, have produced the ﬁrst detailed observations of the majority of the supernova remnants within the central starburst of M82 at a frequency of 1.6 GHz. These data also provide the ﬁfth epoch of milliarcsec resolution images of the four most compact sources, allowing monitoring of their evolution over a 19 year timeline. In addition, MERLIN 5 GHz observations over an 8 day period have been used to study the expansion of ten of the supernova remnants within the central starburst. From planets to dark energy: the modern radio universe October 1-5 2007 University of Manchester, Manchester, UK * Speaker. c  Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence. http://pos.sissa.it/