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Petersfield’s August festivities have been hailed as a huge success by organisers and spectators who enjoyed the two-day feast of entertainment in the Square which was closed off to traffic for the weekend.

See this week’s Petersfield Proust for an update on this angle…

Petersfield’s August festivities were a “waste of time” and a “commercial disaster” according to a town-centre jeweller who has made it his life’s work to ensure the Square is snarled up with traffic.

See this week’s Petersfield Proust for an update on this angle… possibly in the same story as the other one.

Pull the other one

Rugger buggers out on the pull

Two of Petersfield’s major sports clubs will battle it out on the streets of Petersfield next weekend.

Petersfield RFC and Petersfield Town FC face a battle of strength along the High Street when they take part in a charity vehicle pull competition on Sunday, August 29.

The town’s biggest club, the golf club, declined to join in, with a representative saying that many of their members were unable to carry their own golf bag, so an event like this was completely out of the question.

The rugby club put on a tremendously successful field gun display at last year's festivities, and this seemed the next logical step.

Petersfield FC will pull any illegally parked cars to Chapel Street and Petersfield RFC will pull vehicles to College Street. The winning team will be the one that has moved the greatest number of vehicles at the end of the day.

Mark Etstall speaking on behalf of Petersfield Festivities told us: “We always have a huge problem with vehicles being parked where they shouldn’t be and in the knowledge that we have no traffic warden, everyone will be out to take the piss.

“The police are supposed to be concentrating some of their efforts on parking controls, but I understand they dedicated a few hours to traffic control back at the beginning of August, so we won’t see them again until September.”