'˜Unrest' as residents demand collage be reinstated at village hall
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For 15 years a textile picture celebrated life in a busy village, with scenes of the annual festival and carnival, families enjoying the seaside and cultural and sporting pastimes.
The collage adorned a wall of the Miller Barn, part of East Preston and Kingston Village Hall.
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Hide AdBut when it did not reappear after being taken down last year while the hall was decorated, deep unrest was sparked in the coastal community.
Now parish councillors are set to hold talks with trustees of the village hall foundation, which runs the premises on behalf of the community, in a bid to resolve the rift.
Almost 200 people have signed two separate petitions calling for the collage to be reinstated in its original setting, and all three Women’s Institutes in East Preston have lent their support to the campaign.