Slough election won on roll of a dice

BBC NEWS reports that: "Two candidates in Slough were forced to roll a dice to decide the outcome of the election after two recounts failed to split them. The Tory beat the independent." I've never heard of such a way to decide a democratic election!
This, for my sins, was my town of birth and, fittingly, the setting for Ricky Gervais' "The Office". A village originally known as Upton-cum-Chalvey as it first grew organically from a a muddy puddle (a slough) with a coaching inn, then faster with the advent of rail and the telegraph (the high tech of the day which enabled a criminal escaping from London to be nabbed by the rozzers at Slough railway station). Growth then artificially accelerated between the world wars by an influx of migrants from Wales , Ireland and the north of England together with a massive building program of council housing. While Slough was very successful in terms of employment, housing, social welfare etc, my memories are of a rather bleak and characterless place. When I first ventured away in my teens and discovered historic and wealthy places nearby like Datchet, Eton & Windsor on one side and Ivor Heath (when Pinewood Studios was still in full swing) on the other side, I could not help but see my home town in a poorer light. Mind you, that was in the '70's and I was drawn to the bohemian tribal lifestyle of collective living and pretty well anti-everything-that-was-straight. God, I was so immature! Now I understand why parents worry so much about their children.