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Weekly Round Up. Ron Ronsson’s Ford Escort wins Easter bonnet competition

Some local news and notices you may have missed in the past week.

For the third year running, Ron Ronsson’s gleaming 1987 Ford Escort won the Easter bonnet competition. A delighted Mr Ronsson said ‘I’m pleased to say that my pride and joy is still in full working order. It gets a polish every single day.’

There was a strong interest in the Good Friday flagellation classes led by Brenda Ferguson. After the class, there was a whip around for village hall funds.

Come back Duck No. 9…

The Bank Holiday Duck Race on the River Gluggle was abandoned after half the ducks refused to allow villagers to attach numbers to them. The remainder of the ducks flew away to a neighbouring pond. ‘Next time,’ said Emilie Bourdain, who supplied the ducks, ‘I’m going to use geese. They’re far more reliable.’

PC Anita Flegg would like to remind people that dog fouling on Harold’s pavements will not be tolerated. “The police take a very dim view of anyone who hacks a spaniel down from behind, particularly when they’re not on the ball”, said Flegg.

The council will hold a public consultation on refuse collections this Wednesday, in the back of Cllr Commerbund’s camper van. Proposals include the reintroduction of stocks on the village green for anyone putting food waste in their recycling, and the compulsory use of winter tyres on wheelie bins.

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Drum stick shortage threatens village music festival

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Dr Evans warns ‘tip can go off if you rub it’

A world-wide shortage of drum sticks has led to the cancellation of the Harold Music festival just days before the event is set to get underway.

Josh Fenning, drummer with local thrash metal band ‘Methyl Bromide’, says he has been without a drumstick for over two weeks and has no idea when he will be able to play his drums again.

Josh reckons that on average he gets through around 20 drum sticks a night, mostly left-handed ones which he normally buys from a specialist dealer on eBay.

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Harold Easter egg hunt ends in cabbage carnage chaos

They don't grow on trees

They don’t grow on trees

The traditional Harold Easter Sunday egg hunt has been proclaimed a ‘resounding success’ this year after only three toddlers were hospitalised and just one marriage ended abruptly.

Villagers young and old gathered on the village green early to begin the annual hunt; each eager to take home the largest number of eggs, and despite the actions of the animal rights activists, the mood was excitingly competitive.
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Local musician discovers long-lost ninth note of the octave – ‘H’

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There it is! Look, there in the middle!

Reg Dwight, frequent uninvited pianist at Harold’s Squirrel Licker’s Arms, announced today a discovery which could change the face of music for ever.

Dwight, 43, has been on the fringes of stardom since his famous residency at “Sally’z Cut’z” hairdressers and grill. After deciding to go into showbusiness at the age of three, he changed his name from the original “Elton John” to improve his image. Talking to the Evening Harold this morning, he spoke of his amazing find.

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Local regrets shedding light on boy ‘raised by moths’

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Moth-erless Children

A nocturnal boy discovered in the woods outside Harold may have been ‘raised by moths’.

A group of naturalists had set out to record the night-time insects of Harold, but were shocked when their powerful lamps attracted a jittery youth with a face smeared in nectar.

“We’d set up nets, motion-sensing cameras and switched the big light on”, explained Gerladine Forster, who heads the local wildlife trust.

“There was a commotion behind us; snapping twigs, a rush of air, followed by what sounded eerily like a child muttering ‘flapflapflapflapflap’.
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Tensions rise over weapons between North and South village gangs

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The long running battle between gangs in North and South Harold saw a worrying development yesterday as the North declared a state of ‘we’re gonna knock you out, innit’ against their Southern counterparts.

The situation in Harold has been bubbling under the surface for a long time, but has escalated amid fears that the ‘People’s Democratic Rudeboys of Harold’ (PDRH) have tested long-range catapults.

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Security fears see Boat Race crews swap rowing boats for aircraft carriers

Residents have noticed Harold’s missing bridges

Oxbridge and Camford technical colleges are taking no risks with the 2013 boat race, after competitors were left traumatised last year by someone bobbing about in the river.

With the UK government accidentally ordering far too many aircraft carriers recently, organisers have found a neat solution that kills four birds with two millstones.

Councillor Ron Ronsson explained details of the plan, from an official time-keeper’s frigate.

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Protesters celebrate jailing of TV licence offender

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Group described crime as ‘sickening’

A local woman who persistently failed to set up the direct debit for her TV licence has finally been jailed for two months.

Campaigners against 83 year-old June Hammond celebrated long into the night, as they received news of her sentence from the courts.

“This validates our sustained, 2 year-long campaign against this monster”, claimed daughter Sarah Hammond. “Finally, it feels like justice has been done.”

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Priest denies forcibly washing young offender’s feet

Priest also obsessed with 'massive kites'

Priest also obsessed with ‘massive kites’

Local Priest Tansy Forster has issued a statement through her lawyer, in which she vehemently denies washing the feet of a young offender against their wishes.

Forster admitted that she did have a ‘thing’ for dirty feet of petty criminals, but rejected claims that it was a ‘full-blown fetish’.

Forster has claimed before that it’s perfectly normal to wash a vandal’s feet, if you don’t want to catch anything while you’re kissing them.
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Man granted restraining order against Button, McIlroy and Ennis

Button (left), Ennis (right), the other one (centre)

Button (left), Ennis (right), the other one (centre)

A judge has issued a restraining order banning sports stars Jenson Button, Rory McIlroy and Jessica Ennis from coming within 100 yards of Harold resident David Smith, after he complained of them following him around offering unsolicited financial advice.

Smith has reported a number of incidents over recent weeks ranging from Ennis following him while out jogging, to a more serious case where McIlroy broke into his house at night extolling the virtues of cash ISAs. Continue reading

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Children’s TV idol’s body found in pieces in local store

The decision to publish photo described as'tacky'

Decision to publish photo described as ‘tacky’

Police have been called in to investigate how one of the nations most loved children’s entertainers ended up with his body severed into several pieces and spread around an establishment in Harold.

Morph, the plasticine sidekick to the late Tony Hart, was discovered yesterday morning in ‘Cuts Both Ways’ being used to hold up 3 mirrors, 2 clocks and a calender of David Beckham. It has not been established what body parts are being used as each piece was rolled into little balls. Continue reading

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Council calls for curb on unlicenced Viking funerals

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It’s what he would have wanted

The council of Harold has reacted angrily to a wave of unofficial Viking funerals, describing them as ‘a health and safety nightmare’.

With some local families tracing their ancestral tree back to more pillage-friendly times, a proper warrior’s send-off has become fashionable in some of the less desirable postcodes.

But with Harold being over 2 hours’ drive to the coast, the traditional ceremony has been updated to take into account the local geography.
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Paris Hilton almost sighted in Harold Town Centre

imageCelebrity fever hit Harold yesterday as it emerged that Paris Hilton was almost sighted emerging from Harold shop Cuts Both Ways. News of the near miss spread quickly, and the excited crowd would have brought travel to a standstill if there had been any.

Melanie Delaney, 19, was thrilled to be mistaken for Paris Hilton. “It was a stroke of luck that my persistent body image problem and desire to self-harm meant I was out shopping for scissors in the first place. And that people thought I was Paris, even if only for a moment, shows that the bulimia is really paying off.”
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Children take shop to court over admission policy

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Three schoolchildren from Harold are taking the local Tesco Expess to the ‘Dunstable Court of Human Rights’ in a bid to overturn their ‘no more than 2 schoolchildren at a time’ policy.

The policy was instated in 2010 when the retail giant successfully had the courts impose an ASBO on a local youth for stealing a packet of Space Invaders, although the three year-old’s mother still claims it was a misunderstanding Continue reading

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High Street Telephone Box to be Reopened by Evening Harold columnist

Phone BoxAlmost six months to the day since the stomach-churning events of ‘29/9’, a grand ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held on Saturday to re-open the telephone box that stands outside the Tesco Extra on the High Street.

Businesswoman and Evening Harold agony aunt, Brenda Ferguson will perform the duties of ribbon-cutting with scissors kindly donated by Cuts Both Ways scissor shop, and will also stick her ceremonial business card advertising her services to the inside wall.

Opposition from residents that the new phone box will attract goths has been outweighed by traders who say that the phone box will bring a welcome boost to the local economy and be another step towards normality for the High Street after the horrors of last September.
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High price of village drugs blamed on ‘big farmer’

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Never read the label

The villagers of Harold are facing a squeeze, as the price of shallow gene-pool suppression drugs continues to climb.

With unwebbed toes and bald foreheads taken for granted these days, the soaring cost of Sameancestins is troubling locals.
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Bank of England regrets outsourcing printing of ‘Churchill’ £5 note (pic)

No, no, no, no, no

Is this the right Churchill? No, no, no, no, no

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Released Huhne doesn’t think ‘new image’ will prevent a return to public life

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by | February 1, 2013 · 12:15 am

Moyes makes first mistake as Man U manager after communication error with agent

The danger of auto-correct on a text message

The most awkward managerial unveiling since Rafa went to Chelsea 

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by | February 1, 2013 · 12:00 am