"it is not always what is intended but how it makes people feel"

Les, I appreciate your earlier comment, but this sort of hypersensitivity is never-ending. I suppose ANY cross could possibly remind someone, somewhere of the KKK. And I suppose the crescent could possibly remind someone, somewhere of Muslim involvement in the slave trade. How far do you want to go with this?

There is no right not to be offended.

Plenty of things offend me - so what?

The residents of Padstow shouldn't have to explain themselves to busybodies who neither understand nor attempt to understand this expression of their local culture.