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UPDATE: Bristol’s Union Jack netting is reinstated

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Union Jack Scaffold Netting
Image courtesy of Caters News Agency

We reported last week scaffolders from Pocock Safety Netting and Advanced Scaffolding was forced to take down the patriotic safety netting by bosses.

But after a massive public outcry on the street and online Colstons Tower’s owners have made a u-turn on the decision and has now been re-erected.

The scaffolders working on a well known Bristol city centre building originally erected the netting as a gesture of support to Team GB during the Olympics and Paralympics. No sooner finishing fixing the red, white and blue safety netting they was ordered to take it down by the contractor CW Duke as no permission was granted.

After we posted the story last week their was a huge interest with us even trending on the social platform Linkedin with the opinion overwhelmingly being in favour for the scaffolders and why was it taken down.

CW Duke’s Managing Director Paul Evens told Bristol’s local paper that he was delighted to reinstate the flag in response to public opinion and said:  “We would like to reiterate that this was never intended as an unpatriotic gesture.”

Written By Daniel Norton

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