Queen Liz of Aberdare
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Her Majesty the Queen formally opened Parliament yesterday and gave the customary Queen’s Speech outlining the government’s proposed policies for the new session.Aberdare once had its own Queen Liz… an excellent local journalist called Liz Makin. She wrote for the Aberdare Leader newspaper, as it was then called, for a number of years.
Here’s a typical Liz Makin piece from Aberdare Leader, page 1, 21/7/77 :
Title : Traders’ noses twitch over curry and chips
The possibility of curry and chips being on sale in the town centre has been given a hot reception by Aberdare traders and residents.
They fear late-night rowdyism and vandalism and say vermin will be attracted. The pungent smell of spicy curry will affect trade especially at the clothes’ shop nearby, they claim.
It’s such an evocative title line and the audacity of rhyming “twitch” with “chips”.
No photo accompanied this story, because none was needed.
Queen Liz’s quip about noses twitching had done the job for the Leader!
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