Those perennial drama queens at town hall towers are all-a-fluster about some graffiti on the skate park. Apparently the walls of the structure were so "covered" with graffiti that the council administration has closed the skate park pending sanitization.
How's your Old Testament? King Belshazzar, despotic ruler of the hateful and repressive kingdom of Babylon, was troubled by writing that appeared on his wall, and he commissioned a report on the matter from Daniel (him of lions' den fame). Daniel told the tyrannical king that the writing was a warning of the fall of Babylon. Just saying.
Anyhoo, the council are saying that it's going to cost them (by which they mean us) just shy of £1,000 to clean up the graffiti. That sounds rubbish to me, even for the town council. Here's a can of graffiti remover, and the stuff is very effective. A couple of cans of that and a bit of a scrub and for £20 the job's a good 'un, all for less time than it would take for the council to phone the story in to the local paper.
Here's the skate parky thing.
I agree that the "no scooters" could be a bit hurtful.
I see some nasty cracking in that concrete - though wasn't the skate park built a year after the Costain's dewatering?
The article says that the skate park was closed because of the graffiti, but I would suggest that with all those fallen leaves and muck in the bottom that the skate park has been unusable for quite some time. Don't we pay for a grounds-keeper already? Perhaps the council could buy a broom with the graffiti remover.