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"But simple as the tale is there is hardly better historic training for a man than to set him frankly in the streets of a quiet little town like Bury St. Edmunds, and bid him work out the history of the men who lived and died there. In the quiet, quaintly-named streets, in the town-mead and the market-place, in the Lord’s mill beside the stream, in the ruffed and future brasses of its burghers in the church, lies the real life of England and Englishmen, this life of their home and their trade, their ceaseless, sober struggle with oppression, their steady, unwearied battle for self-government. It is just in the pettiness of its details, in its common place incidents, in the want of marked features and striking events, that the real lesson of the whole story lies. For two centuries this little town of Bury St. Edmunds was winning Liberty to itself, and yet we hardly note as we pass from one little step to another little step how surely that Liberty was being won."

John Richard Green (1837-1883), grandfather of British social and cultural history.

Green, J. R., (1876), Stray studies from England and Italy, Macmillan & Co., London p.218-9

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Some People Never Learn: Cllr. John Griffiths Takes the Poisoned Cup *

In contrast to the normal press fanfare and media spin which has accompanied every other council announcement, the news that Council Leader John Griffiths has taken over the chairmanship of the Cattle Market Re-development working party was buried away in a tiny item in the December 9th edition of the Bury Free Press.

New Chief (BFP 09/12)
New Chief (BFP 09/12)
It appears that volunteers for the role of new chairman were conspicuous by their absence. This possibly represents the first sensible decision many councillors have made in the whole sorry episode that is the Cattle Market development.

Given that Cllr Griffiths has admitted that he has not read the £80 million agreement that the Borough has made with Centros Miller, we wonder what else he may now fail to read and what else will be withheld from him?

Finally, as Cllr. Griffiths represents Ixworth not Bury St Edmunds, he will not have to look at the eye-sore or deal with the wave of anti-social behaviour that will accompany it.

* The word cup has been selected in preference to the euphemism of "poisoned chalice". A chalice is a holy vessel and its contents blessed in celebration of Christ at the Last Supper. We cannot use the term "chalice" with reference to a cursed Cattle Market site.
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