http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10459159/Morris-dancing-troop-Britannia-Coconutters-banned-from-hometown-over-safety-concerns.html
The off duty town planners and rights of way officers are up to more mischief in their spare time again as their countryside high jinx reveal in this article:
A Morris dancing tradition that dates back 156 years has been barred from its Lancashire hometown because of safety concerns.
Members of Britannia Coconutters, dressed in turbans, red and white kilts, clogs and blackened faces, perform 12 hours of dances at 20 pubs in Bacup, every Easter Saturday.
But council bosses say the tradition must end, after photographs taken covertly at the last event show spectators standing on the highway.
The group – affectionately known as the Nutters – traces its origins back to 1857 and has held an Easter Boundary Dance parade in its current form for 110 years.
Their treasurer Neville Earnshaw said: “We are the envy of the folk-dancing world. We can dance in Dublin on St Patrick’s Day or Yorkshire – but we can’t dance in our own town.”