A banner advertising a community group that had been stolen from its position near Locks Heath Shopping Centre has been returned thanks to publicity in the Western Wards Gazette.
The banner for the Locks Heath Tennis Club’s enrolment evening – which is due to be held next Monday – had been pulled down and taken away from its location on a fence close to the Locks Road entrance to the shopping centre.
But after the theft was reported to the police and an appeal for its return made in The Gazette earlier this week the banner, which cost the club £110 when it was bought three years ago, was returned.
Club Chairman Trevor Spence said he was grateful for the publicity about the missing six foot long banner because that had directly led to its return.
He said the person who returned the banner said they had taken it down because they felt it was obscuring another sign and “in a moment of madness” they removed it.
They were, said Mr Spence, full of remorse when they saw the article in the Gazette and phoned to arrange to return the banner and apologise for their actions.
He added the police had also been told that the banner had been returned intact.
- The tennis club’s enrolment evening is next Monday, March 25, at St John’s Church in Church Road, from 7.30pm to 9pm.