THE annual Christmas panto season kicked off at last Monday's Bramshott and Liphook Parish Council meeting, with councillors and the public entering into heated discussions over recent events.

With parish clerk Tony Groves on paid leave for more than a month, and no foreseeable end to the saga in sight – following false claims that he stalked former vice-chairman Nikki Young – and assistant clerk Diane Hart having resigned her post since, frustrations and tempers boiled over.

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