Stroud has cancelled their annual brick and rolling pin throwing event for 2022

With the event not being held since 2019, Stroud Brick and Rolling Pin secretary Maree Hart said they had been "beaten by COVID, beaten by floods and now beaten by the weather again".

"It's a major event along with the show and rodeo that brings a huge influx of people to the town," Ms Hart said.

"It's something quirky and different and so the cancellation has put a dampener on the whole community."

The brick throwing event was originally meant to go ahead on July 9 but, due to flooding, it was postponed to August 20. On Wednesday the committee found the showground would be too wet by that date and rather than postponing again decided to cancel the event for this year.

The festival has its origins in 1960 when Strouds in England and the US, both brick-making towns, starting hurling the building material for sport.