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Thread #120285   Message #2646182
Posted By: GUEST,Allan
02-Jun-09 - 02:32 AM
Thread Name: What should Susan Boyle sing next?
Subject: RE: What should Susan Boyle sing next?
I know Susan said in her first audition that she lived in a village and that has been picked up on elsewhere, and I know that what constitutes a village may depend on where you come from yourself, but I don't think many Scots would recognise a town like Blackurn as a village. In sheer size it is comparable with most of the market towns in for instance the Scottish Borders. For example the town of Jedburgh has a smaller population than Blackburn and is itself surrounded by much smaller villages like Ancrum, Oxnam etc. To me a village is a small community with maybe only a couple of shops, a pub and small school if they are lucky. In other words it is more rural in character.