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Warren’s Back Tonight

a resident of Beckworth — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:53:28 +0000

Televisual news just in… A third series of the BAFTA award winning children’s docudrama Warren In My Sporran (produced by local TV company Livingstone Productions for BBC Scotland and repeated on Dave) starts this evening at 6.30. For those of you who’ve missed the previous series Daniel Day Lewis stars as Warren, a deminutive adult vagrant who lives in the sporran of young Highland’s boy Angus MacDonald. The latter character was originally played by Ronnie Corbett but for this series he is replaced by Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame. The episodes follow Warren’s hilarious adventures in and out of Angus’s kilt, with many scenes shot in and around Beckworth. I can’t wait to see it, i’m a big fan and have got series 1 and 2 on DVD! Christine Batley. Chief Television & Film Reporter. Beckworth Guardian

(Above) (Above) Method actor Daniel Day Lewis stars as the small tramp Warren who makes his home in young Angus MacDonald’s sporran

Web Site Back Up And Running

a resident of Beckworth — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:13:51 +0000

Hi, thanks to all the readers and contributors to this website for your patience and one message of support during our strike-imposed “radio silence” during August. Thanks to arbitration we have bowed to the outrageous demands of the council’s IT Department and will now allow them hourly fag breaks and an hour earlier finish on Fridays to allow them time to enjoy happy hour in The Bear & Pumpkin pub. So it’s now all systems go and we should be able to resume almost daily posts.

So what has happened in Beckworth in the last four weeks I hear you ask? Well, a lot of course but I have limited time so here are the highlights: The local archeological society put on a most enlightening exhibition in the library “Flushed With Success. The History of Toilets, From BC To WC” which included the display of a recently dug-up Roman commode and was opened by local celeb and sanitation fan Ronnie Corbett. The playing fields was the venue for the very first Beckworth Camping and Surfing show. This proved very popular given the hot weather with lots of tents, caravans, deckchairs and surfboards to sample and buy. The annual Follyfoot Farm’s gymkhana saw famous Les Dennis/Chas and Dave tribute act Les and Dayve play their set repeatedly day and night to rapturous applause until a mysterious fire put the generator out of action. The event also saw the Queen’s daughter Dame Zara Philips win the Shetland Pony Derby for the first time and local celeb Ben Fogle win the dressage on his shirehorse Spangles

Local supermarket Sainsco took over sponsorship and cleaning of the pop-up urinals in the market square and a new joke and magic shop “You’ll Like This… Not A Lot” opened on Floyd Street next to the undertakers. Run by father and daughter Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee it aims to cater for the over 60s Silver Surfers.

Beckworth came 52nd in the international Britain In Bloom competition and the local scooter club celebrated 50 years of being Mods with a run to Brighton over the bank holiday. They unfortunately suffered one fatality on the way there when Sam Bedford’s scooter broke down on the A23 and he was run over by the AA van coming to fix it. Still this was thankfully two less deaths than in 1963 when the club was was set upon by axe wielding rockers.

So that was August… Yours Mayor G Grimsby

(Above) Beckworth’s Scooter Club on their “1963 revisited” run to Brighton just before Sam Bedford’s life was tragically cut short by a breakdown truck

Warren In My Sporran

a resident of Beckworth — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:33:51 +0000

Hello all. Just thought I’d share the great news that local TV company Livingstone Productions has been commissioned to make a second installment of it’s BAFTA winning children’s series Warren In My Sporran for BBC Scotland. For those of you who missed the first series Daniel Day Lewis stars as Warren, a deminutive adult vagrant who lives in the sporran of young Highland’s boy Angus MacDonald (ably played by Ronnie Corbett). The episodes follow Warren’s hilarious adventures in and out of Angus’s kilt, with many scenes shot in and around Beckworth. Well done to all at Livingstones! Christine Batley. Chief Television & Film Reporter. Beckworth Guardian

(Above) Method actor Daniel Day Lewis stars as the small tramp Warren who makes his home in young Angus MacDonald’s sporran