frazorth@feddit.uk to

United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 29 days ago

World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating | UK News

cross-posted to:
andfinally@feddit.uk

51

World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating | UK News

frazorth@feddit.uk to

United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 29 days ago

cross-posted to:
andfinally@feddit.uk

World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating

David Jakins, 82, known as "King Conker", said he kept a steel chestnut in his pocket for "humour value".

Good news! Following up from this https://feddit.uk/post/18671151

The men’s World Conker Championships winner has been cleared of cheating after a steel chestnut was found in his pocket.

Chat

finishsneezing@discuss.tchncs.de
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
3·
29 days ago
Hasn’t he competed every year since 1977?
- SSJ3Marx@hexbear.net
  link
  fedilink
  English
  arrow-up
  5·
  edit-2
  7 days ago
  deleted by creator
- Skua@kbin.earth
  link
  fedilink
  arrow-up
  4·
  29 days ago
  He didn’t win the overall final, only the men’s one. He lost to the women’s winner, who moved to the UK from the US last year

United Kingdom@feddit.uk

unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

General community for news/discussion in the UK.

Less serious posts should go in !casualuk@feddit.uk or !andfinally@feddit.uk
More serious politics should go in !uk_politics@feddit.uk.

Try not to spam the same link to multiple feddit.uk communities.
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric news, and should be either a link to a reputable source, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think “reputable news source” needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread.

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

119 users / day
548 users / week
2.28K users / month
5.88K users / 6 months
13 local subscribers
4.09K subscribers
2.08K Posts
20.6K Comments
Modlog