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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
National
Tristan Cork

Local councillor quits because everyone in his town thinks he's Banksy

A local councillor in a town in West Wales has resigned his position, because he said everyone thinks he's Bristol street artist Banksy.

William Gannon, known as Bill, has been a street artist for 40 years, and has painted walls all over the country, but he is so adamant he's not the Bristol street artist that he's even had a badge made saying 'I'm not Banksy'.

But he said the talk in his local town of Pembroke Dock got so bad that it made his position as a town councillor untenable and he was quitting because of it.

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