Beer festival 'chaos'

 Hundreds queue for hangover cures

At least 500 people didn't turn up for work today in the aftermath of yesterday's beer festival at the Halfway House. Landlord Mark Phillips, who says he only meant for it to be a 'coffee morning', had his breakfast up a tree this morning on Podimore Roundabout while several members of staff woke up at High Ham cemetery.

The food bank at The Angel on Bow Street had to bring in extra workers this morning as huge numbers of people, pictured above, turned up for berocca tablets.

 The beer festival was so well-attended that other pubs suffered as a result. The landlord of the White Lion, pictured above in bed this morning, wasn't impressed.

There are also calls for a condom machine to be installed on the fence up where the wheelie bins are kept at the top of the carpark at the Halfway House, after at least 14 local women conceived last night just after the band finished.

A hawthorn bush at the Halfway House this morning.

 For old footage (3 clips) of a Halfway House trip to the Newton Abbott beer festival some years ago, click on the links below to go to YouTube: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePfms_uxYVQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJDYM5QsIs0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlYE-99oig