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Heavy rains wash away Jon Egging tributes (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Heavy rains wash away Jon Egging tributes
5:00pm Saturday 13th October 2012 in News
THE recent heavy rains and floods have been blamed for washing away most of the tributes to Flt Lt Jon Egging at the Bournemouth crash site.
Residents built a small stone cairn and placed flags, flowers and photos at the spot on the banks of the River Stour where the Red Arrows pilot died during last year’s Bournemouth Air Festival.
However, all the tributes have disappeared from the cairn, on a footpath leading from Throop Mill.
Some residents had contacted the Daily Echo in the belief it had been vandalised.
Paul Tory, the agent for the land managers Fowler Fortescue, said: “The only thing I can think is that when the river burst its banks over the last month or so the water has washed it away.”
Bournemouth council also said it believed the floods had washed the tributes away.
Rachael Lloyd, 22, from Throop, a retail assistant who walks her dogs in the area, said: “The weather and flooding was horrendous here. It would have been washed away.”
Comments(6)
muscliffman
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8:02pm Sat 13 Oct 12
RageAgainstTheMachine
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9:35pm Sat 13 Oct 12
muscliffman wrote:I totally agree with you Muscliffman
With the greatest of respect is it not now appropriate to allow this man the dignity of resting in peace. Instead of being a continuing source of Echo headlines - sometimes supported by little of substance.
Morrigan
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8:01am Sun 14 Oct 12
muscliffman wrote:I agree. If it goes on and on, it will become cheap and tacky. His grave is the place for tributes and flowers.
With the greatest of respect is it not now appropriate to allow this man the dignity of resting in peace. Instead of being a continuing source of Echo headlines - sometimes supported by little of substance.
Besides which, most of the flowers were wrapped in cellophane or paper - which will now be littering our beautiful countryside, and I am sure Jon would not have wanted that associated with his name .....
Phixer
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6:33am Mon 15 Oct 12
hadvar
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2:38pm Mon 15 Oct 12
ILOVEBOURNEMOUTH says...
6:09pm Sat 13 Oct 12