Conker world championships face being axed after summer's extreme weather
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Conker world championships face being axed after summer's extreme weather
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The Independent conducts on-the-ground reporting across topics including reproductive rights, climate change and Big Tech, funded by donations that keep its journalism free of paywalls. Donations enable continued investigative work, documentaries and balanced reporting. The World Conker Championship in Southwick, Northamptonshire, may be cancelled after an unusually hot, dry summer produced smaller conkers that risk splitting when holes are drilled for shoelace attachments. The event, scheduled for 12 October, expects around 2,500 fans and 256 players and has raised more than £420,000 for the visually impaired since October 1965. Organiser Charles Whalley blamed extreme weather and premature shedding of conkers by trees.
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