While indulging in fish and chips in the Magpie in the middle of folk week, I was told that there had been a straw effigy of "Sam Smith" somewhere on the harbour front with a noose around its neck and various messages pinned to it - anyone know anything about this, as I never actually chanced to see it, if it existed? (The person who told me was actually a worker for another Sam Smith's pub outside Whitby, who seemed to be overjoyed at having seen it, and commented that the staff at her pub were more than fed up with the situation, and with not having enough to do as the number of punters visiting the pub had dropped considerably since the music ban was instituted)