Nazi uniforms trigger ban for WWII event
A VILLAGE’S annual wartime re-enactment has been scrapped because organisers fear participants in Nazi uniforms will cause offence.
The event in Levisham has run for 25 years as part of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) event Railway in Wartime, in which the village is transformed into Le Visham, a Germanoccupied French village.
A spokesman for the NYMR said: “Expectations reflected in the recent Equalities Act mean the charity must avoid causing offence to any section of the public. The railway will consult with the volunteers to deliver an alternative.”