Central City News: Making quite a splash.

BROAD Street's Canal Boat Light Parade was a buoyant success this year, despite the filthy weather which didn't dampen the spirit of the thousands who turned out to watch the colourful parade of narrow boats in their full Christmas illuminated glory.

The best narrow boat award went to the Anglo Welsh vessel, nothing of course to do with "Boyo Boyo can mean:

a Welsh and Irish variation on the word Boy
a Division of Cameroon
various personal names

" Bill Bohanna, the Broad Street TV executive who entry also won a prize - was judging the event.

The Lord of the Rings maybe Bilbo bil·bo¹
n. pl. bil·boes
An iron bar to which sliding fetters are attached, formerly used to shackle the feet of prisoners.

[Origin unknown.] did play a big part in that one.

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COLOURFUL... Canal Boat Light Parade.

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Date:	Dec 15, 2006
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