If you’ve been perusing the popular press of late you will probably have seen that the world was supposed to end firstly on the 28th September, and then when that didn’t happen, the 7th October.

But surprise, surprise, we’re all still here so I guess no one should be astonished to learn that whilst no new date has actually been definitively confirmed, we are now advised that it will happen before the end of the year.

According to theorists, a full sized planet, known as NIBURU will collide with the Earth before December, destroying life forever! But before you go out and splurge every last atom of your savings it might be worth wondering quite why with all the probes we’ve sent into space, the Hubble Telescope etc, no one seems to have spotted this rogue planet – unless, of course, it’s all a huge NASA cover up.

The subject of today’s contribution from Margaret Mills, concerned a riot back in 1861 by the lads of the village of Steeple Bumpstead – over football. What else? Listen again to what Margaret had to say on this subject by clicking on the link below: –

We’re not here next week so our next Bygones feature will be in two weeks time on November 17th.

See you then,
Scott