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So, when the Tartan Army descended on Boston, and saw the city’s statues coneless, nature took its course.<\/p>\n
The people of Boston seemed to love it<\/a>, so much so that a proposed twinning of the two cities has been marked by the gifting of a signed cone from Glasgow to the city where that birthed the American revolution.<\/p>\n Back home, however, the reaction from some has been less than positive.<\/p>\n Edinburgh’s own Duke of Wellington statue, outside Register House in the city centre, was spotted sporting fetching, orange headwear earlier this week.<\/p>\n Monuments to Adam Smith and David Hume on the Royal Mile have also been anointed with plastic crowns.<\/p>\n While the image is more closely associated with Glasgow, some capital locals say this is nothing new.<\/p>\n Edinburgh city centre councillor Jo Mowatt told BBC Radio Scotland’s Mornings<\/a> programme that the practice made statues look “undignified”.<\/p>\n “I think I would much rather it stayed the other side of the M8,” she said.<\/p>\n “I wouldn’t tell Glasgow what they should and shouldn’t do, that’s up to them, but in the middle of where it’s happening, in Edinburgh, it’s just totally inappropriate.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n