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Old 02-11-2010, 07:17   #437
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Re: The value of public funded art

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss View Post
I don't know whether it would be classed as 'art' but I'm also looking at the cost of Christmas switch-ons across the borough. We've got the Mayor to do ours but some other wards are rumoured to have celebrities and I'd like to know how much they're being paid if that's true.
It was posted a Glee tribute act were turning on the lights in Accrington. I don't yet know of any other celebrities, turning them on in other towns in the borough.

It makes you long for those nice Victorian Christmases, when these sort of things would have been done by a local big nob, watched by the poor, huddled masses.

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