LEDBURY people gave a sigh of relief last Saturday, as a threatened right wing march through the centre of town failed to materialise.

Plans for the march, on May 21, were announced on a Facebook site last month, called 'Hereford Patriots'.

At the time of going to press this week, the site was unavailable to be viewed.

But various right wing groups had said, in postings on the site, that they would arrive in Ledbury to call for the resignation of Cllr Liz Harvey.

This was after she made a "plea" at a recent town council meeting for no red white and blue bunting to mark the Queen's official birthday and Armed Forces Day.

Cllr Harvey, who has been reported by Ledbury Town Council to Herefordshire Council's monitoring officer, "for bringing the town into disrepute", said that patriotic bunting in Ledbury during 2012, the year of the London Olympics, had "unsettled" Irish visitors to the town.

Cllr Harvey said at the meeting: " Well I had a number of people during the Poetry Festival after the torch, when we had the bunting still up all through the town; that particular Poetry Festival year there quite a few poets who came from Ireland who were on the programme; they were really quite unnerved by the red white and blue and actually wondered whether they’d walked into a sort of National Front or a Republican area because they were used to that in Ireland; they were quite unsettled by the, as they saw it, the hegemony of red white and blue."

Cllr Harvey's controversial comments led to reports in national newspapers and some comments, on online sites, which were highly abusive towards her.

Hereford CID and Ledbury police were aware of the threatened march from the outset.

At the time, Ledbury police "informed the relevant departments at Hereford Police Station that there may be quite a gathering".