NEW YEAR'S HONOURS:

 

OBEs, BCGs & CSEs handed out across Langport

 We're delighted to report that King Charles III has recognised a number of local people and businesses for their contribution to public life throughout 2023.

The new year's honours include:

For Services to ditches, streams and rhynes in the Somerton & Frome Constituency - Sarah Dyke 

For Services to Langport Town FC - The Black Swan

For Services to the Black Swan after a footy match up the rec - the Sports Club

For Services to Langport - the two or three town councillors who are ever seen to be doing anything useful

For Services to Curtain Twitching & Keeping Garden City folk in line for over 90 years - Joan Wybrow

For Services to over-subscribed schools, an overwhelmed GP surgery and congested local roads - the Somerset Councillors who have just voted through 100 new homes on land in Huish Episcopi 

 For Services to our fond primary school memories of the 1970s - Mrs Derham

For Services to not getting a doctor's appointment even though you've just been run over by a tractor and you're on fire - the receptionists at Langport Surgery

For Services to the Museum Industry - the empty shop opposite Fosters

For Services to discontinuing everything we ever found useful and cheap - Langport Tesco

For Services to the wonderful sight of a union flag flying over our town off the church tower roof - The Friendly Society

For Services to keeping us all up to scratch on what's going on in these 'ere parts - The Langport Where It's To facebook page

For Services to giving us all a good laugh - everyone on the 'Somerton Say What You Want' facebook group [it really is priceless] 

For Services to trying to understand why Langport has about 6 different markets instead of one dirty great big one all on the same day every month - the stallholders who keep the faith [excluding the one who thinks he owns the place and causes all the trouble]

 For services to a damned good carvery (even though they shut the front door too early) The Langport Arms

and

For Services to Ladies of the Night while Priest Lane remains closed - Cartgate Picnic Area

 

 

And those, dear readers, are our local recipients of the new year's honours.

Congratulations to all of them.

Thank you for reading this year and keep the contributions coming in 2024.

oh and

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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