I prefer to put it down to a vibrant democratic system and strongly suspect as usual that most derogatory labels doing the rounds have been stuck on the outcome by those who didn’t even bother to make a mark at all.

Just to give them something else to groan and moan about I can exclusively reveal Nelson’s County is now stirring to the thrilling possibility of turning a blind eye to history and becoming seriously stylish.

Yes, a corner so often the butt of metropolitan witticisms about flat vowels, awful roads, red-faced farmers noisy turkeys, truculent tractors and inbreeding is ready to embrace a brand new image worthy of a “rainbow region” status.

It all begins with at least four households just outside the Burnhams cancelling The Land Worker and Methodist Recorder from their newsagents and asking instead for introductory offers for The Field, Vogue, Tattler and Westminster Gazette .

Sixteen former wherrymen from the Dilham area have pooled their redundancy monies to invest in a yacht marina, restaurant and floating nightclub venture in Old Hunstanton.

A dozen ex-trappers formed a consortium to organise coypu-hunting safaris across grazing land at Brisley. A lottery grant and big-game........

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