This has all the tedium I associate with local newspapers.
Badger shot by St Ives locksmith
There was a photo finish in the Fathers' Egg-and-Spoon race at St Ives Primary School yesterday. To frantic cheering from his seventeen children and three wives Mr F.T. Foakes shot by Mr J.S. McCartney and pipped him at the post. Said Mr McCartney, a local tradesman, 'I was exhausted after a long day fitting seventy-six locks to the children's lockers. I feel I should have been awarded a handicap. I'm well gutted.' A delighted Mr Foakes who said he was 'over the moon' and 'I did it for my family' is well known to readers of this newspaper for his collection of four-hundred and seventy-seven cap badges, comprising one for every Primary School in Cornwall.
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