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Work to remove a stretch of hated seafront hoardings will begin next month. The enormous barriers at the Princes Parade site in Hythe will be taken down and transferred to Otterpool Park in March, Folkestone and Hythe District Council (FHDC) bosses say. The bright-white hoardings – previously covered in graffiti calling it a “Tory crime scene” referring to now-scrapped plans to develop the land and slated as looking like Belfast’s “peace walls” \- require £30,000 worth of annual maintenance, and the previous Conservative-led council received a quote of £100,000 to remove them. But the proposal…

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