I'm not sure it's fair to criticise Councillor Barber in this instance. It seems that no laws are being broken, or rules for which he is responsible, in which case it isn't really a matter for him or the Council. And in a personal capacity he has said he is uncomfortable about interfering with these displays. What more can/should he do? I also think that grief takes many forms. Not everyone feels it in such a public way, I agree, but I'm not sure it's a question of right or wrong. Just different. I can't begin to imagine how I would feel if I saw a child die, much less cope with that happening to my own. I'd like to think that people would give me the space to express my grief in whatever way I needed. And if I felt the need to make a shrine I think I'd find it unbelievably painful to be told to remove it before I was ready. And I'd like to think that that would count ahead of what other people, who weren't in the pain I was in, might privately feel about it. A tatty display has no value other than that accorded to it by those who put it there. And if it helps them, in even the tiniest way, to cope with their pain, then I'm for leaving it where it is.