Builder erects sculpture of council leader as Wiltshire planning row turns ugly

Developer in long-running spat with Trowbridge town council erects gargoyle-like sculpture of council leader on roof of building

Most leaders have to wait until after they've died for the statues and monuments of them to go up. But all the Trowbridge town council leader, Stewart Palmen, needed to see his likeness in stone was a planning dispute.

An angry builder in the middle of a three-year spat with local authorities has erected a stone gargoyle-like carving of Palmen on a roof in Trowbridge.