Life in Beckworth » Torvill and Dean 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 Star Spot: Gok Wan http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/courtney-beccles/star-spot-gok-wan/ http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/courtney-beccles/star-spot-gok-wan/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:07:11 +0000 a resident of Beckworth http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/?p=4713 Continue reading →]]> I’ve just seen a Gok Wan and a TV crew filming his new series “Dieting On Ice”. One of the telly people who was hanging around told me it will be very successful as frozen water and watching people suffer are very popular. In the reality show unknown celebrities will be forced to live with Torvill and Dean in an abandoned ice rink for 3 months and viewers will vote off the lardiest person each week. The Z-listers will have to forage for food whilst skating round the rink and Mr Gok will skate on occasionally to give them advice on loosing weight and looking good on the ice. I can’t wait to watch it as I love Mr Wan and figure skating. LOL Courtney Beccles.

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(Above) Gok Wan and his wife take a break from rehearsals earlier today

]]> http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/courtney-beccles/star-spot-gok-wan/feed/ 0 AuRevoir To Our Heroic Son http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/nell-edmunds/aurevoir-to-our-heroic-son/ http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/nell-edmunds/aurevoir-to-our-heroic-son/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2014 10:59:55 +0000 a resident of Beckworth http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/?p=3745 Continue reading →]]> Dear Beckworth and the many millions of my husband Noel’s fans who will be reading this. This morning was a bittersweet day for the Edmunds clan as we waved goodbye to our youngest son Neil, the World famous ice skating champion and mime artist. We waved him off first thing this morning on the first leg of his circumnavigation of the globe on ice skates (following the route taken by the intrepid father and daughter team Torvill and Dean in the 1980s). To make the trip even more media savvy Neil has also taken a vow of dumbness and will only converse with foreign people and reporters he meets on route through the medium of mime. His brother Nial and sister Bury-Saint will accompany Neil to the Channel Ferry, which is comforting, but beyond that he will be totally on his own (His father Noel having so far failed to get Channel 4 to make a documentary of the expedition and follow Neil with a camera crew). On a brighter note, through sponsorship our son hopes to raise money for the Beckworth Ice Rink whilst raising awareness of mime, and not talking in general. You can sponsor Neil via his dad’s Deal Or No deal website or by giving us cash in person. Neil hopes to raise at least £5000 whilst on his epic 3 year journey which should be enough for the Rink to buy some new lockers and hand-dryers in the loos. I hope to keep everyone up to date on this epic adventure as Neil promises to ring me most days if his mobile phone has enough credits. Many thanks (Mrs) Nell Edmunds

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(Above) An emotional Noel Edmunds waves off his children earlier today

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