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Digital advertising screen vandalised with paint
Paint has been thrown over a digital advertising screen in the city centre.
Red and white paint has been splattered across the 11-metre-high screen, while the word BADASS (Bristol Against Digital Advertising Screens) has been scrawled across its base.
The structure, on the pavement outside Cabot Circus on Bond Street South, was erected in June by global advertising giant, JCDucaux, who said it will “complement local character”.
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But the screen, which is allowed to show static digital adverts 24 hours a day but is not yet in use, was met with almost universal criticism.
A digital ad screen has been vandalised less than a month after it first appeared – photo: Mia Vines Booth
Plans for the screen first surfaced in 2018 and, despite being refused by elected councillors at a planning committee meeting, were allowed after an appeal by JCDecaux to the Planning Inspectorate.
JCDecaux declined to comment on the matter.
Main photo: Mia Vines Booth
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