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Council overrides Henry VIII on market

A branch of the Women's Institute has been told it cannot organise a market in a town square - despite a charter from Henry VIII granting permission to hold one there "forever".

Jacky Roberts-Wake, the president of Colyton WI, in east Devon, said they had been told by Devon county highways that there was no legal mechanism for closing the road.

The WI went ahead yesterday with its "buzzing" farmers' market in the local churchyard. Customers signed a petition backing their call for the event to be held in the market square four times a year.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)