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South Ayrshire Council to launch public consultation on "appropriateness" of some monuments and street names

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Council chiefs say they will hold a public consultation on the "appropriateness of some monuments and street names in South Ayrshire".It follows calls to remove the statue in Wellington Square of General James George Smith Neill.An online petition has already gathered almost 600 signatures.And the monument has been included in a 'Topple The Racists' website targeting more than 70 sites around the UK.It comes after the removal of a Bristol monument to Edward Colston on Sunday which was then thrown into the city's harbour.A number of other monuments around the country are now coming under scrutiny.And campaigners say the bust to General Neill in Ayr is an "insult to the town".He was a Scottish military officer of the East India Company who.

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