The seaside town of Skegness, Lincolnshire has long used the Jolly Fisherman as an iconic image to help attract visitors to the town. Now, Skegness local, Bernard Kentford, believes it's time for a change.
"Fish stocks and miserly EU quotas have resulted in the dwindling of small, independent fishing fleets, so it's high time this prancing symbol of the olden times be constrained to the history books, or even better, purged from human memory altogether.", Mr Kentford was heard to ramble through his letterbox when we called on him for an interview.
He intends to hold a town meeting to discuss the issue on the beach today, but says that if anyone turns up dressed as a fisherman in protest, he'll flip his lid.
Skegness council have so far not commented on Mr Kentford's suggested replacement; a picture of a family eating ice-creams, but with prawns' heads badly photoshopped over their faces.
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