Similar Town Sues St Neots
Wantage Town Council today issued a writ against St Neots, claiming that it breached copyright law by becoming a small market town outside a major university city.
Wantage is around the same distance from Oxford as St Neots is from Cambridge, and as well as being a similar size both towns feature the presence of ducks, a Market Square and some of the south’s most “impressive” modified Novas.
“The next thing we know St Neots will go and get themselves a hill, and then we’ll know for sure they’ve been ripping us off,” gnarled Wantage local Fred Hurst, 82, commented.
St Neots town council leader Derek Miles said “Well, I don’t think this is going to stand up in court. Everyone knows St Neots is older – as well as better.”
This claim was rubbished by Wantage council who pointed out that theirs is a Saxon town, whereas St Neots was only founded in the 12th century, after thieving Eynesbury villagers stole the bones of the Saint from Cornwall.
Tempers flared when Patrick O’Feely, mayor of the Oxfordshire town, claimed that “King Alfred could well have Saint Neot in a fight – he was just some poofy monk wasn’t he?” residents of Little Paxton stood behind SNTC spokesman Dean Dexter trying to look threatening, but rubbish suburb Grove did the same for Wantage – and threatened to file suit for “becoming an overgrown housing estate attached to a small market town twenty minutes from a large university city” and thereby breaching the same copyright law.
Council leader Cllr Miles pointed out that “at least the X5 stops in St Neots – unlucky.”
It is thought that St Neots will merely settle out of court and a sum of approximately half a Rowley Million has been suggested as appropriate.
to be fair Wantage has been on Police Camera Action three times, which is three more than St Neots. So is that a good or bad thing?