Reluctant bride
ffi.Z. Press Attn.—Copyright) GREAT AYTON (Yorkshire), Dec. 6. More than 200 car-loads of protesters set off today from this Yorkshire village of Great Ayton, the childhood home of Captain James Cook, to oppose the British Government.
For under new local government plans, Great Ayton will be swallowed up in the new Teeside County borough complex, and the prospect of such a link with the industrial Teeside has angered the villagers.
At Northallerton, a protest petition bearing 4000 signatures, was handed to a Conservative M.P., Mr Timothy Ikitson.
The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr Peter Walker) has described his plan for the link-up as "a marriage between town and country.” Tomorrow, he will receive a telegram from the villagers saying: "You have published the banns of marriage between Teeside and Great Ayton, but there is cause and just impediment why these two should not join together in matrimony. "The bride is already married to Yorkshire, and has no wish to be divorced.”
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32783, 7 December 1971, Page 17
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