Chipping Warden pancake races are a flipping success

Organised for the past 35 or more years by villager Barbara Bartlett – awarded the BEM in the New Years Honours List for services to the community – the event on Tuesday raised £220 for St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church.

Pupils from the village primary school’s classes one and two joined mums, dads and other residents for the races and to enjoy pancakes.

“The winning adults received a frying pan – and winner of the men’s race was our vicar, Rev Brian Fairbank,” said Mrs Bartlett. The children were given Easter eggs.

Mrs Bartlett fried 150 pancakes and those that fell while being flipped by competitors were fed to the birds.