Morrismen ditch blackface for green

IT’S a tradition which dates back more than 500 years. But the Silurian Border Morrismen have voted to stop dancing with blacked up faces – and switch to green paint instead.

Last year the Joint Morris Organisation, which represents the country’s 800 groups, ruled members must stop using black paint in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Yesterday Silurian Morris, from Ledbury in Herefordshire, said it ‘wanted to be on the right side of things’ and is trying to settle on a shade of green which ‘doesn’t make us look like the Incredible Hulk’.