11 October 2017

Market trader banned for selling Knights Templar mugs - because of who they killed 700 years ago

.... The Loughborough Echo reported in August that the council had intended to write to the trader, who has been selling predominately vintage books and history books for almost three years, following several complaints about Second World War items “which could be deemed offensive to some”.

At the time, Ms Gayle said the items aid many of her customers who take part in WWII re-enactments and help them accurately portray characters.

Ms Gayle contacted the Echo to say that she had been “told not to sell mugs or badges with Nazi symbols, CDs, and items with German generals” and that she had complied.

But last Friday she was told she could no longer trade at any Loughborough market, as concerns had been raised about her selling Knights Templar coffee mugs. [The Leicester Mercury] Read more