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Musical impresario releases ode to chief officer of Cheshire local councils after ‘operatic’ meeting
There are many things Americans struggle to understand about the English: our love of a cup of tea on a hot summer day, the rules of cricket, the concept of universal healthcare free at the point of delivery. To this list we can now add: a national obsession with a tiny parish council meeting gone wrong.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has said his friends in the US think he is “mad” after he created a song about Jackie Weaver, the heroine of the Handforth parish council meeting, which went viral last week. Continue reading...