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THE past year has been blighted by the big, black cloud of Covid, but Zoom has shone a glimmer of light.

The video, taken from the council’s December 2020 planning and environment committee meeting went viral on social media overnight.

For anyone who missed the viral sensation, footage from a virtual Parish Council meeting held over videoconferencing tool Zoom on December 10 was published on Twitter this week where it quickly gained millions of views. An edited version of the planning and environment meeting, which saw chairman Brian Tolver accuse Jackie Weaver, who works as the Chief Officer of the Cheshire Association of Local Councils, of having “no authority here”. Councillor Aled Brewerton tries to take charge of the meeting after Tolver is relegated to the virtual waiting room, shouting: “Read the standing order...

There was shouting, lewd language and more boisterous behaviour than a rugby club on a Saturday night: a scene of such squabbling it was like the Bash Street Kids rather than a meeting of upstanding members of a local community. We may think of parish councillors as benign folk concerned with little more than the sprawling wisteria on the village church. Worlds apart, in other words, from the vicious bear pit of Westminster politics. How wrong we were. This week, that gentle image of parochial life was spectacularly torpedoed after a video emerged of an extraordinary — in every sense — me...

Parish council meeting: Who's who in Handforth's internet viral hit Chris Riches Replay Video UP NEXT But she found herself the target of screaming abuse and procedural rants, prompting a resident of the Cheshire village of Handforth to post the video online. It has been viewed more than three million times. Yesterday Ms Weaver, chief executive of the Cheshire Association of Local Councils, admitted she was "surprised" by her newfound fame. She said: "Ninety-nine per cent of council meetings are not like that. They're often less exciting than we might hope they were." She adm...