News From Bromham - Dateline Sunday 7th August 2016

Bulletin From Bromham: Dateline – Sunday 7^th August 2016

                                             

Here is our weekly round-up of events from Bromham:

                                                        

1.       The four-yearly sporting extravaganza that is the Bromham Games is now in full swing.  In a spectacular opening ceremony on Friday night, the leader of the Parish Council, Theresa Green, switched on the spectacular light display in the High Street, consisting of almost 100 LED bulbs in three different colours.  The Bromham flame was carried into the sports stadium by one of the local youth club, and used to set alight a grand bonfire of rubbish that we’ve been meaning to burn for a few weeks now.  The Games Committee then retired to the Saloon Bar of The Wounded Ferret for a slap-up meal of a pie and a pint.

2.       The leader of the Carrot-Rooters’ Action Party (CRAP) Jezzer “Cor” Bean denounced the Games as a complete waste of public money, and threatened, that if CRAP ever came to power, they would take the Games into Public Ownership.  He also threatened to re-open Bromham’s now-forgotten treacle mining industry, to begin building sub-standard cars again at the re-badged Bromham Leyland, and to provide subsidies to the village’s 19^th-century shipbuilding firms, provided that the Kennet & Avon canal can be widened and deepened.

3.       For details of these and all other Bromham stories, don’t forget to listen to local radio station Carrot FM.

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