I have been over this thread many times. I am confused. It seems to be that whenever anyone puts anything factual in or describes what is happening now, rather than in the past, people are coming back with hearsay . It is almost as though people do not want to believe the occasion has changed. It seems that very few people contributing to this thread have ever been there or have any intention of going there to see what it is really like. It seems people keep going back to very out of date information and I wonder why. If both the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Commission for Racial Equality have both made in depth studies into this and have both found over many years, that it is not racist, then I can accept that. They would have prosecuted by now if it was. It is almost as if people have latched onto something and because it no longer complies with their stereotype of it, they try to rewrite what is going on. It seems to me that the only person on this thread that has seen this or is concerned enough to explain what really happens now, rather than many years ago is Cats. He obviously cares about our heritage but it seems that some people are having a go at him beacause he is putting in pure facts which do not comply with what they want it to be. I also do not understand where the idea that the people of Padstow would not teach children about it or want it seen anywhere but there has come from. It has been presumed but why and by whom? It is almost as if people want this event to be racist and are upset that it isn't.