| Eleven criers from as far afield as Stafford, Colchester, Swindon and even Hastings came to compete for the Barnoldswick Bellman trophy. |
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| As well as taking part in the official contest, the criers spent both days helping guide visitors around Haworth. |
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| Only the top three criers were announced at the weekend and Mr Collier now has a nervous wait for his final positioning. |
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| His latest triumph came at Blackpool's annual town crier competition where he beat 20 other criers. |
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| The criers will be judged on volume, clarity, diction, inflection and dignity. |
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| Sometime between 1 and 2pm on April 24, we would come along and one of the criers would do a cry about that person's business in rhyme. |
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| The congregation included town councillors, criers and representatives of several local organisations. |
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| A feature of the competition saw Peterborough City Council's environmental control department measuring criers ' voices with a decimeter. |
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| Plans for the competition are going well, but more volunteers are needed to put up visiting criers in their homes for a couple of nights. |
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| Also in the town will be a town criers' competition, when ten criers from across the North will also be advertising local businesses, street collections and song and music. |
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| Telemachus wakes at dawn and has criers call the citizens to assembly. |
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| Mr Ferris said criers were ambassadors of goodwill for their communities. |
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| During the weekend, there will also be the chance for budding town criers to audition on the square as the town council looks to appoint a new crier for the town. |
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| Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the criers in hell. |
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