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Villages go to war in annual 'bottle kicking' battle as hundreds turn out for Easter Monday tradition where locals 'fight to move barrels to streams'

Villages go to war in annual 'bottle kicking' battle as hundreds turn out for Easter Monday tradition where locals 'fight to move barrels to streams'

The annual sporting contest between neighbouring rivals Hallaton and Medbourne sees participants compete to bring a wooden beer barrel across a boundary stream within their village.

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