Perhaps all the hair braiders and buskers are here in Weymouth then? There is no shortage of them here.

Perhaps also some perspective should be placed before we move on.

Whether you accept live and let live, this is a free country (just) and as it stands - it is a fact that one does not need a ticket to enter a holiday resort like Sidmouth - at any time. It is hardly helpful to describe or think of all the non-festival attendees in this week, including the many holiday makers that a lot of people in the town depend on, as 'hangers on' and 'freeloaders'.

There is hardly a week goes by when there is not a festival of some sort going on in here Weymouth - life does try to go in holiday towns without folkies, kite fliers, WWII veterans, and beach volley ballers etc.

Perhaps Sidmouth can stage the first hair braiders festival at other times of the year and Mrs Casey can organise it?