Life in Beckworth » the Flying Pickets http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth Bringing you the (almost) everyday comings and goings of the residents of Beckworth, a typical English market town. Informing you about their lives through the mediums of words, images, an interactive map and stereophonic sound recordings Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:56:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Local Web Site Struck By Flying Pickets http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/mayor-gary-grimsby/local-web-site-struck-by-strike/ http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/mayor-gary-grimsby/local-web-site-struck-by-strike/#comments Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:22:45 +0000 a resident of Beckworth http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/?p=2183 Continue reading →]]> Hi, it is with regret that I have to inform all our readers and contributors that we are temporarily without a functioning “Visit Beckworth” website due to industrial action by the council’s IT Department. I have risked life and limb by crossing a hypothetical picket line just to put this message up…. Please bare with us whilst we deal with “the enemy within” who have been stirring up trouble by singing the Flying Pickets’ Christmas hit single “Only You” since downing tools. We are due to go to arbitration later this month in a bid to resume normal service. Yours Mayor G Grimsby

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(Above) 1980s hit makers The Flying Pickets,
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