WEINSTEIN BURNS FOR HIS SINS
A BRITISH town burned an 11m effigy of US movie producer Harvey Weinstein at its annual Bonfire Night celebrations at the weekend.
Each year the Edenbridge Bonfire Society chooses a well-known figure to go up in flames alongside an effigy of 17th-century militant Guy Fawkes. The society said the disgraced mogul was the obvious choice after many women made allegations of sexual harassment and assault against him.
The effigy featured Weinstein in a bathrobe, holding a Hollywood star and a clapperboard with “final cut” on it.
The society in the southern England town stressed that while the event was lighthearted, there was “nothing funny” about the allegations.
Towns across Britain light bonfires and fireworks to commemorate Guy Fawkes’s failed November 5 Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament in 1605.