A council has dropped ‘Winterfest’ and brought back Christmas this year,
following a barrage of complaints.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has decided to call its celebrations “Love
Christmas” and will pay for Christmas trees in its six
towns.
Last night saw the Christmas lights switched on in the city centre, after
twelve school choirs performed during the day.
‘Christian country’
Abi Brown, the council’s Deputy Leader, said they have “very much
listened” to what residents said about last year’s festivities, and have tried
to put a “greater emphasis on what they do like”.
And Janet Bellis, Chairman of the Christmas Events Board for the
Stoke-on-Trent suburb of Meir, said the celebrations should never have been
called ‘Winterfest’.
It’s a victory for common senseSimon Calvert,
The Christian Institute
“As a Christian country, we should include the word Christmas in any
celebrations we have. Nobody is excluded”,
she said.
