Decorators called in at village hall
Pitney village elders called an emergency meeting of their Cobra committee this week after a Category 9 Level 10 food fight broke out at the village hall.
Reports are only just leaking out of the event which took place during 18th birthday celebrations at the building one weekend earlier this month.
The hall's had to have emergency paint work done and several Pitney teenagers have reportedly 'gone into hiding' with at least ten of them taking Ryanair flights out of the country.
(they're still in Pitney)
(they're still in Pitney)
It's believed the food fight broke out when one of the guests tried to put more cheese on his baps (pictured)
But not everyone's 'disgusted' by what happened.
"It's not like anyone was thrown into the buffet is it?" said local woman Vivien Winterburn, as she signed another copy of her book '101 ways to climb out of a bowl of coleslaw' at the Taunton branch of Waterstones.
In an exclusive for Carry On Langport, our reporters have managed to secure footage of part of the brawl.
Click on the screen to play the video, if it doesn't work - click on the link underneath to go to YouTube.
There are no further details.
In other news...
For those of you who don't know yet, the results of the parish poll on Wednesday are in.
The question was (paraphrased) whether Langporters should be consulted on any major future decisions on the Hanging Chapel.
The answer was a resounding yes. 101 people voted, 93 were for the motion...7 were against and there was one spoiled ballot paper.
Some critics are already pouring scorn on the result. The Langport Leveller's editor calls it "a damp quib" on his website this week.
Not at all...from where I'm standing that's 93 Langport voters telling just 7 former town councillors that a secret vote to offer to sell the Hanging Chapel to the Freemasons was not only highly irregular (the agenda that evening in June said 'Hanging Chapel Lease') but also not in the public interest and even a tad underhanded.
Supporters of 'the Chapel 7' are also calling on those members of the public who vented their feelings at the parish meeting some weeks later to "put their money where their mouth is" and stand for council.
Again...they seem to be missing the point by miles.
People who turned up at that meeting at the Wharf that evening didn't go because they wanted anybody to resign (the word was never uttered) neither did they go because they wanted to be councillors themselves.
Far from it - they went because what went on at that Town Trust meeting in June stank.
Local people got wind of it and so turned out to demand answers and protest. It's as simple as that.
Some critics are already pouring scorn on the result. The Langport Leveller's editor calls it "a damp quib" on his website this week.
Not at all...from where I'm standing that's 93 Langport voters telling just 7 former town councillors that a secret vote to offer to sell the Hanging Chapel to the Freemasons was not only highly irregular (the agenda that evening in June said 'Hanging Chapel Lease') but also not in the public interest and even a tad underhanded.
Supporters of 'the Chapel 7' are also calling on those members of the public who vented their feelings at the parish meeting some weeks later to "put their money where their mouth is" and stand for council.
Again...they seem to be missing the point by miles.
People who turned up at that meeting at the Wharf that evening didn't go because they wanted anybody to resign (the word was never uttered) neither did they go because they wanted to be councillors themselves.
Far from it - they went because what went on at that Town Trust meeting in June stank.
Local people got wind of it and so turned out to demand answers and protest. It's as simple as that.
So we now need people to think about standing for the town council - an election is expected to be held at some point in November.
This has appeared on the notice board next to Natwest in recent days:
Stick it in your diary.
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