The Ballad of Your Home Town

The BBC's GetWriting Competition is inviting people to write a ballad about their home town with the following criteria:

In under 250 words, write The Ballad of Your Home Town. Okay, what does this
mean?

• 'under 250 words' - use a word count programme
• 'write' - create an original, unpublished piece
• 'ballad' - a narrative poem (it tells a story)
• 'your home town' - you really should have lived there at some point,
  maybe even now
• Entries must be received by noon on 31st December 2004. We will
  shortlist in regional blocks to put together our lyrical map of the UK.
• Final judging will be based solely on quality, and not on region.

So there you go - perfect opportunity for us to big up the 'ton yeah?