Council deletes post on lighting up Inverness for coronation due to 'overwhelming level of comments'
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Highland Council has deleted its Tweets about lighting up Inverness Town House in the colours of the Union flag to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III.
There was a sharp backlash against the move with many people objecting to the use of the common good funds to pay for the illuminations – the common good fund is cash generated from publicly owned property.
Usually that is used for investment in areas that are seen to benefit the wider public but increasingly, under the management of Highland Council, it has come under attack from critics who feel money is being wasted.
When asked today the local authority was unable to say precisely how much the lights cost but earlier said that as they were already in place "the cost of lighting them is fairly minimal."
A spokeswoman for the local authority told the Courier that the wave of responses to the post was too great for them to moderate those comments which may breach their social media policy.
She said: “We have removed posts on our social media about the lighting of the Ness Bridge and Inverness Town House supported by the Inverness Common Good Fund for the Coronation, from 1 – 9 May as we don’t have the resources to moderate the overwhelming level of comments that were breaching our social media policy.”
