Backlash as poppy poster is torn down
Health and safety cited for removal of montage Service of light
A moving tribute to the war dead was banished by a council oaf who claimed it broke health and safety laws.
The bizarre action at a sheltered housing complex has led to a bitter backlash and calls for an official apology.
This week South Ayrshire Council was still not saying sorry - and refusing to say precisely why the tribute by two students was taken down.
Two posters had been displayed on the front window of Bradan Sheltered Housing in Troon.
In an official statement this week the Council said they “do not normally allow” posters on the glass.
Yet their position was undermined by a Google street image from last year which SHOWS posters on the same window.
And furious resident Ian Troon Friends of the Ayrshire Hospice are holding their annual Light Up a Life service in Our Lady of the Assumption and St Meddan, Troon on Wednesday, November 21 at 7.30pm.
The service will be conducted by Canon Archie Brown.
The service reminds us of those we loved who are no longer with us.
It is a good time to remember and to light a candle to celebrate the lives of those we have loved and lost.
Troon Friends invite you to join us in lighting our candles ( if you wish) at this service and afterwards in the Church Hall for tea/ coffee and good company Wilson, who uncovered the gaff, said: “South Ayrshire Council removed it saying there is a health and safety issue with it.
“This strikes me as a bid odd when we always have posters in our windows for Easter, Hallowe’en and Christmas with no such issues.”
Two girls created the montage, featuring the sun going down on Arran, as part of Duke of Edinburgh work.
They’d spent four months helping out at the complex and each created a hand- made tribute.
Ian said: “What a lovely example the Council is setting to young people, especially in 2018 the Year of Young People.
“I am disgusted at the appalling behaviour of SAC. I intend to ask for an apology on behalf of the girls whose work was so badly disrespected.”
After a barrage of criticism from around the world and a visit to the complex by three mandarins, one of the posters