Hello all. Don’t forget this Sunday, 12th April, the annual french Le Marche De Fromage Et Onion (Cheese And Onion Market) will be in town. It’s your once in a year opportunity to buy expensive french cheeses, breads, veg and onions directly from people who drive on the wrong side of the road, don’t wash and refuse to speak the English language.

Once again wine won’t be offered after the many drunken altercations in recent years. Nor will we tolerate urinating in the street, not even down opened-manhole covers.

As is tradition the march of the Emmental Fromagiers will set off from from Town Hall steps at 10am, parade along Floyd Street into the Square to declare the market open.

Weather permitting there will be events all day for the whole family, including morris dancing by The Beckworth Bothamers, a kite display by local celebrity Noel Edmunds and of course in the afternoon the crowning of Beckworth’s Miss Garlic 2015.

Not to be missed this year will be the life-size inflatable Eiffel Tower that will be set up near the scout hut, and a must see will be the Beckworth & Crewbury Historical Re-enactors staging a reburial of King Richard III beneath the MacDonalds car park. 

So Bonjour to one and all, Mayor Gary Grimsby

(Above) The french market featuring a life-size inflatable Eiffel Tower