Britain’s hot and dry summer has put this year’s World Conker Championships in jeopardy with a series of heatwaves leading to smaller than normal conkers, organisers say.
The event began in 1965, raising thousands of pounds for charity, and since 2013 conkerers from around the world have descended on the Shuckburgh Arms pub in the Northamptonshire village of Southwick.
This year, however, Britain’s horse chestnut trees, on which grow the
