The festival was stopped by the local constabulary in 1909, which forbid Straw Bears as a form of cadging, but it was revived in 1980 by the Whittlesea Society.
Bill McGillivray was named Senior Citizen of the Year, Young Citizen of the Year went to Zachary Melvaine, Zoe Brown was honoured as Access and Inclusion Citizen of the year, and Jim Bannan received ...