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WI ladies too raucous for councillors

Members of a Women’s Institute have denied being raucous in their rendition of Jerusalem after councillors meeting in the same hall complained about the noise.

The Beaminster WI was said to make such a racket, singing, laughing and talking over tea and cakes that members of Beaminster Town Council struggled to concentrate.

The two groups meet every third Monday evening in different rooms at Beaminster Town Hall in Dorset.

It came to light in a church newsletter which said a councillor had complained about the WI’s “raucous” behaviour.

Councillors are now being seated in the bottom half of their room to escape the noise.

Angela Seckington, 71, WI Beaminster president, played down the complaints and said: “Two of our members are married to local council members. It’s really a teasing thing that they said they would complain about all the noise we make singing Jerusalem.

“We don’t think we sing in a raucous way. We suspect that is what Cherry Armstrong’s husband had probably said - you raucous old ladies - but we aren’t particularly old actually, or raucous.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .