Roy the Redeemer
- 8 June 2012 14:40177089we should all bow our heads for a minutes silence to remember roy.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/june/7/roy_the_redeemer_statue_appear.aspx - 8 June 2012 14:54177092"Sorry Martin #28 I did not mean to offend.
The Queen was the first person to spring to mind because of the Jubilee, how about Andy Murray instead.
Is the monstrosity still standing, I was woken up by next door's wheelie bins crashing around."
No offence taken Jan, Andy Murray he is a Scot isn't he
perhaps a step too far 
Audere est facere. - 8 June 2012 15:01177093You just couldn't make this up, like Alec I thought for a milli second it was April 1st and I was ahead of the calendar year
Personally I think it ruins our beautiful White Cliffs of Dover and shouldn't be allowed in the first place. Surely one needs permission for this sort of thing 
- 8 June 2012 15:05177095watty said yesterday that planning was on the case but i am not sure that permission is required and the comment made by a parish councillor seems to bear that out.
- 17 June 2012 15:20178548Is the statue still there atm? If so I might take a walk thids afternoon..."In this world there are 10 sorts of people - those that understand binary and those that don't."
- Brian Dixon
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17 June 2012 17:43178558matt,it might have blown away by now,with all this wind we have had. - Jan Higgins
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17 June 2012 18:16178562I was told at the beginning of the week it was no longer there and looked like it had been taken down rather than blown.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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