Emotional rally staged to protest at roadside memorial removal
4:45pm Sunday 31st January 2010 in Your Town By Gaynor Clarke
BEREAVED families marched through Bolton town centre yesterday to protest against the removal of roadside memorials.
Many people wore t-shirts bearing photographs of their loved ones and carried flowers to lay in their honour.
Shoppers lined the streets to watch as 80 people set off from Newport Street at 1pm and walked towards Victoria Square.
Once there, they gathered outside Bolton Town Hall, where white ribbons had been tied to railings at the top of the steps.
Flowers, photographs, teddies and other mementoes were placed next to the railings in memory of people killed on the streets of Bolton.
Protestor Trinity Serkis gave a short speech about the campaign, which opposes a new council policy to remove memorials placed at the scene of road accidents after 30 days.
In their place, a tree at Queens Park will become the centrepiece of a permanent memorial site.
