Enough Royal tributes already
The name of the town is ‘Royal’ Leamington Spa, for goodness sake. Why, oh why do we now need a pointless nine-metre high phallic symbol, the only effect of which will be to give the pigeons something new to dive-bomb.
If there are a group of people in the town who are really determined to visibly celebrate our servility to an unelected ‘Royal’ House then perhaps a far more positive and useful thing to do might be to create a Jubilee Garden in an appropriate place.
That would at least have the benefit of giving people somewhere to sit and relax in rather than getting neck ache gawping at a pointless plinth! - R Grenville, via email.