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Date: 25 April 2008 12:36:36
There has been a news story in the last few days regarding a village that wants to become Welsh.
The village of Audlem is 9 miles inside Cheshire but they have held an online poll to see if the villagers want to become part of Wales. This started as an April Fool prank but has taken on a life of its own. So far 80 people have voted in favour and 44 against.
Judy Evans, who works in a newsagents, said her Welsh-speaking husband Brian, from Llanbrynmair in Powys, was delighted.
She added: "I'm all for it too. My husband is really keen because he can wear his Grand Slam T-shirt and feel safe.
We're so close to Wales, we get more response from Wales, we get a lot of tourists from Wales and we feel we should be part of Wales
Ralph Warburton, Audlem resident
"He's also hoping the pubs will start showing the important matches from now on. And he's offered to help out with Welsh lessons in the school which of course would become a legal requirement."
Opinion was divided.
Janet Sumner, who runs the local chip shop, said: "We're too far away from Wales to be in Wales.
"This is the first time I've heard about this. I think it's just a few people who want free prescriptions - it's probably some Welsh people who started it."
In the local chemist - on aptly named Cheshire Street - one woman said: "Wales? Oh God, no. Why would we want to do that? I wouldn't want to be part of Wales but I do think we should get free prescriptions."
Another resident said: "People have been complaining about the hospital parking charges and the cost of prescriptions.
"It certainly doesn't pay to be ill here, so Wales have got that right but I definitely wouldn't want to be part of Wales."
Personally I'd be happy to extend our borders back into the "Lost Lands" but we'd have to get rid of the immigrants who live there first.....
History Today:
1915 : Allied troops begin the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign. We land at the wrong beaches and our gallant generals command the campaign from ship's off-shore. This was not one of Winston Churchill's greatest ideas.
1920 : Britain is awarded mandates to control Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Palestine.
1953 : Geneticists James Watson and Francis Crick publish their discovery of the structure of DNA. They now enable scientists further research to do what the Nazis couldn't do anyother way. Just think how superior we'll be when they manage to discover how to manipulate DNA to weed out the "undesirable" genes.