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Four candles stolen from magistrates court — or was it fork handles?

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By Thomas Connelly on

Lawyer makes Two Ronnies quip following candle theft.

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Lovely stuff from the Grimsby Telegraph

“There were shades of The Two Ronnies when Grimsby magistrates were told about the worrying loss of ‘four candles’.

“A prosecutor assumed the guise of Ronnie Barker to tell the court about “the theft of four candles”. Or should that have been ‘fork handles’?”

The famous Two Ronnies ‘Fork Handles’ sketch is below:

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