Ste Aurélie
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England's victory over France is not being celebrated in the Dordogne today. There are glum faces all over France after their humiliating defeat by the English.
No, not the Rugby World Cup, sacré bleu, as if that wasn't bad enough but no, this time it was Ady Hurrell's victory in the World Conker Championships.
Mr Hurrell beat the French representative Mr John Ingram at Ashton in .......
Wait. Hang on bit there...... Mr JOHN INGRAM??????? That doesn't sound very French now, does it?
Let's investigate a bit further.....
Ah. It says here that Mr Ingram is a Dordogne antiquesdealer..... Read on, read on....
He admits that he comes from Leighton Buzzard. Now as I recall Leighton Buzzard doesn't have a French postcode..... Oh, but that's OK because he says that he does a lot of business in France.
Now, in my book I don't think that 'doing business in France' would qualify someone for representing France in a world championship anything. Imagine if Jonny Wilkinson suddenly decided that, since he buys copious amounts of beer at Cité Europ once a year (this is purely hypothetical, you understand, I am in no way suggesting that he would) he therefore does lots of business in France and that qualfies him to represent France in the Rugby World Cup.
Now, that would be an interesting prospect.
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Leighton Buzzard is however twinned with Coulommiers which is near Paris. Maybe that's where the link comes in?
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