article_snippet: The World Worm Charming Championships have been held once a year in Cheshire since 1980 .
article_snippet: The World Worm Charming Championships .
article_snippet: Competitors gather in an attempt to charm as many worms from the ground as possible in a set time.
article_snippet: The sport was officially born on 5 July 1980 when a local Willaston farmer’s son, Tom Shufflebotham, charmed 511 worms out of the ground in half an hour.
article_snippet: The event has a history of people cheating by hiding worms up worms trousers and sprinkling their trousers on  grass .
article_snippet: There’s even such a thing as the International Federations of Charming Worms and Allied Pastimes.
article_snippet: Quite necessary, as it turns out, as The event has a history of people hiding worms up their trouser legs then sprinkling their onto the grass and even chopping worms in half to boost their final worm-count.
highlights_snippet: Cheshire hosts the World's Worm Charming Championships every year .
  