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Ellie Forbes & Gemma Ryder

Gin firm's fury after being ordered by Scots council to get rid of purple shopfront

A gin company has been ordered to repaint its bright purple shop by 'bureaucratic' council chiefs - after just a single complaint about the colour.

Andrew Richardson, 60, has been at loggerheads with the council since last October over the colour of his shop House of Boë.

He painted the shop on South Queensferry High Street, near Edinburgh, purple last June. But he was issued with an enforcement notice after the council received a complaint about the colour.

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