North West MP Andy Burnham has been appointed Culture Secretary. Part of his new job will be to oversee the 2012 Olympics.
Perhaps now we will finally see Black Pudding Throwing elevated to an Olympic sport.
The World Black Pudding Throwing Championship is held at the Royal Oak Pub in Ramsbottom each year.
The object is to throw Black Puddings at Yorkshire puddings placed on a 20ft high platform to try to knock them down. The person who knocks the most Yorkshire puds down is declared the winner.
It is thought the tradition represents the hostilities between Lancashire and Yorkshire during the Wars of the Roses when it is said that the rival armies ran out of ammunition so engaged in a giant food fight, pegging their respective puddings at each other.
Watch footage at the Manchester Evening News website.
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