A pub has just re-opened its doors to the public but only after being accused of having a racist name by a neighbour.
Lucy and Mark Barron-Reid were shocked to pick up a telephone message from a disgruntled local complaining that the name they had picked for their Kent pub – the Black Pig – was a racial slur.
The complainer even raised the matter with the local council.
Lucy said: “We got the message on the phone and we just thought it was ridiculous. It never even occurred to us that people could think it was racist.
“Obviously we intend to keep the name. We had to change it from the previous one – the Kent Cricketer – because its reputation had suffered and it needed a new image.
“Obviously the name isn’t racist, it was just picked because we saw a pub with the same name years ago and Mark really liked it.
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