Hello. Just a reminder that both our local footballl teams (the men’s Beckworth And Slocombe Academicals and the women’s Beckworth And Slocombe Laxadasicals) will be in “action” this weekend. Both teams are playing at home in their first new season matches in the Co-Operative FuneralCare League and in preparation the pitch has been drained and the molehills flattened. And after much fund-raising the supporters bench has at long-last been repainted. In orange. Good luck to both teams, let’s hope this season see’s a performance improvement for the men’s team, for the last 13 seasons they’ve had a 100% match defeat record. Thankfully we have a stronger women’s team to pin our cup hopes on and plans are afoot to put together a LGBT team this year, once we’ve thought of a snappy team name and got a non-offensive sponsor for the colourful strip i’ve designed. Good luck to all players. G. Grimsby. Mayor (and linesman)