Find Out Who’s The Daddy This Father’s Day

This coming weekend, in celebration of Father’s day, we are offering 20% off all paternity tests. Now is the ideal time to offer your “father” the opportunity to find out if the children he’s raised as his own are actually his cousin Dave’s as he’s reckoned for years… after all they’ve inherited Dave’s ginger hair and flatulence. Just think, it would make his day really special to know the truth! You and your “Dad” can visit our discreet “out of hours” health centre (now sited in an empty cupboard under the counter) where we can also offer crouch-down medical checks, enemas, instant (50% accurate) diagnosis of your sexual health and also passport photos. We can even do these procedures all at once to save you busy people time! Our newly joined resident clinician “Dr” Lesley* claims to be a qualified first aider and has even given mouth-to-mouth to a dying horse, so probably knows lots of doctor stuff, and she’s especially keen to spot to sex diseases and find out who’s been born to the “wrong” dad. So come on down. Dr Les will also offer our famed “alternative” treatments for lack of Testosterone (Jaffa Syndrome), obesity, “mr floppy” problems, and period-related irritability. Sperm donations can also be taken in our health centre (no appointment neccsessary and we have some newly-borrowed “specialist magazines” on site). As they say on Holby City “the doctor* will see you now…”

Abdul Ackworth, chemist. Abduls The Chemist, 17 Floyd Street, Beckworth.

* Lesley has never been, nor claims to be, a real doctor. It’s more a term of affection but she did train and fail to qualify as a vetenary nurse so knows a thing or two about faking prescriptions

Warren In My Sporran Back On Telly

Small screen news just in… The fourth series of the children’s docudrama Warren In My Sporran starts this evening at 6.00 on CBBC and then the “uncut” version is repeated at 11pm on Dave. The BAFTA award winning series is produced by local TV company Livingstone Productions for BBC Scotland and reprises Daniel Day Lewis role as Warren, a deminutive adult vagrant who lives on benefits in the sporran of young scotch boy Angus MacDonald. Originally Angus was played by the late Ronnie Corbett then by Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame and for this series by the BBC’s go to actor David Mitchell. Once again the series follows Warren’s slapstick adventures in and out of Angus’s kilt and was filmed around Beckworth and Birmingham’s BullRing Shopping Centre. The scripts have also been picked up by an American TV company who are doing a remake, likely to be called Dwarf In My Shorts, starring Danny DeVito and Johnnie Depp. Yours Christine Batley. Chief Television & Film Reporter. Beckworth Guardian

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(Above) Daniel Day Lewis reprises his BAFTA award winning role as Warren

Fan Convention This Weekend

Dear all. This weekend Beckworth is once again hosting the annual News At Ten fan convention and this year it’s moving to a new bijou venue. With the scout hut temporarily out of action local chef, and massive news fan, Huge Firmly-WittlingStick has offered the use of his garden shed. The one-day event will be opened by BBC newsreader Jane Hill who I am assured is well know to newsies (I’m told she’s the late-broadcaster Jimmy Hill’s daughter, though i can’t see the family resemblance myself). Organisers hope to host book signings and selfies with newsreaders of old if any turn up, which in past years they haven’t. Mr Firmly-WittlingStick will be providing light refreshments cocktail bar and and this years raffle prize is the chance to meet Fiona Bruce whilst she has her nails done. Sounds unmissable to anyone with a passing interest in the news. Yours Natalie Clifton, Tourist Information

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(Above) The late Jimmy Hill’s daughter Jane will be opening the News At Ten fan convention this weekend