World Record Almost Reached In Easter Egg Tower Attempt

Hello. The big news today is the attempt to build the World’s tallest Easter egg tower on the grassy knoll between the undertakers and the public toilets. Firstly, on behalf of The Beckworth Guardian (Official sponsors), may I send a big thank you to all the volunteers who gave up their Easter Monday to help build the chocolate structure. Secondly we are truly indebted to publicity shy Lily Allen who laid the foundation egg as a way of promoting her forthcoming album. And thirdly, we almost broke the record! Yes, our tower reached the giddy height of 1.7m (3ft 2in), as measured by an official from Guinness, before we ran out of eggs and daylight. The current world record stands at 10.39m (34ft 1in) so we were only a few meters (and feet) short. For those interested the sp”egg“tacular record breaking tower was built in Bangalore, India back in August 1947 to celebrate the country’s independence. It took over ten months to build the milk and plain chocolate structure (white chocolate is considered to be candy and therefore not allowed), with a team of 22,000 builders working in shifts 24 hours a day and 1,133,500 tonnes of Easter eggs… It then lasted 12 minutes before melting. So as we only had an afternoon, a dozen small chocolate eggs and 6 volunteers we didn’t do badly. We’re planning to try again next year and hope Cadbury‘s or Aldi will supply the eggs. I’ll keep you posted if I hear anything. Yours Christine Batley. Chief Egg Correspondent. Beckworth Guardian

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(Above) Camera shy Lily Allen brought along her own pictographed chocolate egg to be the foundation of the almost record-breaking tower