Joker Rewrites History Of Pennine Village Online

AN ONLINE joker has rewritten the past of a tiny Pennine village online saying it was devastated by a tapeworm outbreak a decade ago.

To add to the lies, it was posted on Wikipedia that the village of Denshaw gets just four hours of sunlight a day and locals relax by throwing sheep.

Denshaw’s Wikipedia entry mainly comprised a discussion of the bus services connecting it to nearby Oldham and Ashton-under-Lyne.

But it now claims the village “attracts people from many different locations mainly due to the competitive sports held in the village including rock rolling, cow shooting and sheep hurling.”

It continues: “Due to the complex hill formations surrounding the village, sunlight is only visible for four hours a day ...”

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It says that until recently, the village “consisted mainly of small holding farms and a few timid brothels such as the Golden Fleece pub.”

A further snippet claimed that the village football pitch slopes at an angle of 35 degrees.

And detailing the extraordinary disease outbreak of 10 years ago it revealed: “There has not been much tourism in Denshaw since the Ascariasis epedemic (sic) in 1998 which left most of the village seriously ill.”

Locals seem to have taken the joke in good spirit. Rick Rainey, landlord of the 400-year-old Golden Fleece, said: “It was once frequented by highwaymen so I’m sure it has hosted ladies of the night in its past. But I can reassure customers that’s not the case now.”

And local Malcolm McLintock, 68, added: “I’ve lived here since 1948. It’s a lovely place. If I won millions on the Lottery I wouldn’t move away.”