{"id":1001,"date":"2024-10-16T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justnews24.info\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2024-10-16T20:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T20:36:46","slug":"winnie-the-pooh-village-naming-mystery-is-spoohf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justnews24.info\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Winnie-the-Pooh village naming mystery is ‘spoohf’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A riverside village has been left bewildered after letters setting out plans to rebrand it as a Winnie-the-Pooh inspired theme park were sent to residents.<\/p>\n

Under the plans, laid out in the letters posted through people’s doors, an anonymous campaigner said they wished to change the name of Dorchester on Thames in Oxfordshire to “Pooh Village”.<\/p>\n

The letters also warned that a “secret night-time guerrilla rebranding” of the village would take place at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n

Dorchester on Thames Parish Council said it was aware of the apparent hoax, adding that it was a “great ‘spoohf'”.<\/p>\n

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South Oxfordshire District Council said it did not want to “Pooh-Pooh” the “unique and surprising” proposition without “giving it full consideration”.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the authority added: “We would not condone a \u2018guerrilla Pooh rebranding of the village\u2019 and the letter-writer must bear in mind that their proposals would need to laid out in full and may ‘Tigger’ the need for consents first.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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