FUN and games aren’t words I’d normally mention in the same breath as Trowbridge.

But a meeting of Wiltshire Council on Tuesday could be entertaining.

On the agenda is a boundary review.

And these things do get some people hot under the collar.

Take unitary councillors Richard Clewer and Mary Douglas.

They support Salisbury city council’s desire to annexe the reluctant parish of Laverstock & Ford.

And they’re pretty miffed that Wiltshire’s not going along with it.

They’ve tabled a protest motion calling for a rethink.

Salisbury wants the extra council tax income.

And there is a certain logic to the argument that people who use its facilities ought to share the running costs.

Mr Clewer wants city residents to be consulted about that.

But council tax bills are lower in Laverstock & Ford. Folk who live there don’t want to pay more, and who can blame them?

Neither do they want to swap the civilised atmosphere of their parish’s meetings for the childish, party-obsessed bickering at the Guildhall.

They don’t see the city council supporting them on things that matter deeply to them, such as their opposition to the scale of the proposed airfield development.

I’m with them on that one.

And Wiltshire seems to be backing them. Or at least, not forcing them into an arranged marriage.

Call Me Jane says she’ll give members a free vote on the issue.

Is this an outbreak of democracy I see before me?