News in Atherstone

Joining in: Before the game ended abruptly, chief steward Noel Johnston had got the 'family feelgood factor back

Atherstone Ball Game secretary Janneen Bernard has spoken of the moment she took the heart-breaking decision to call time on an event that has beaten the weather, world wars and government lawmakers over ten centuries.

The hair salon owner stared at a stricken match steward and went back outside the event headquarters in Long Street to order the immediate halting of an ancient sporting spectacle which had gone unchallenged for 821 years.

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End game: 999 crews outside the Atherstone Ball Game

Community spirit was judged the undisputed winner of the abandoned 2020 Atherstone Ball Game after the town rallied to the aid of a 38-year-old steward thought to have had a heart attack in the latter stages of the event.

Paramedics fought to revive the stricken official, named locally as Martyn Burton, inside the event headquarters of Atherstone Conservative Club.

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Sparkler or damp squib?: But fireworks clearly bring 'fear and distress' to domestic and farm animals

Atherstone and district has found itself in the front seat of a civic drive to erase "fear and distress" by making back garden and organised firework activities much quieter affairs and more animal-friendly in future.

Tomorrow night in Atherstone, councillors are expected to light the blue touchpaper on a campaign piling pressure on Westminster to bring in new laws affecting private and public pyrotechnic displays nationwide.

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