Down in the Hood - Melksham Town Criers Competition

Saturday afternoon in the Market Place in Melksham, and there are lots of people in very loud clothing taking turns to shout at the top of their lungs about how wonderful it is to live where they do. Places like Ilfracombe, Warminster, Bromyard and Wootton Bassett. Are these the Gangsta Rappers of rural England?

Later they were due to shout about the benefits of healthy eating, in an initiative sponsored by the NHS and something called "change4life" If you call it a name that looks like a text message, the kids will surely come, right?
The irony of having 16 walking Toby jugs shout about the benefits of regular mealtimes, low sugar cereals and "2 snax max" seems to be lost on the geniuses who thought of that one.