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Sir John Betjeman, CBE, has been dropped from the village poetry festival for calling for the bombing of Slough.

Organisers said that his appearance would have required a massive police operation.

Betjeman is due to appear in Windsor Magistrates Court in July on terrorism-related offences.

https://www.best-poems.net/john_betjeman/slough.html

Slough poem - John Betjeman

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death! Come, bombs and blow to smithereens Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,