A British attempt to honour frontline health workers has backfired, after some special commemorative sculptures were removed because they were mistaken for garbage.
The items were created by army veteran Martin Feeney, and placed on a roundabout in Radstock, Somerset after gaining permission from local authorities, the BBC reports.
Feeney, who teaches welding and metalwork at the Army Engineering College in Lyneham, said he spent several weeks creating the silhouettes of a nurse holding a red heart as well as a rainbow-coloured "thank you" message (pictured).
"Everyone loved them," his wife said, adding "but at the weekend a council worker put them on a flatbed trailer and removed them".
However after an outpouring of public outrage, the missing items have been reinstated.
Radstock Mayor Rupert Bevan said a council worker tasked with removing items that had been dumped on the roundabout believed the sculptures were rubbish too.
"He thought they had been abandoned...he took them home for safekeeping," the Mayor said, confirming the sculptures were back in place after a "thorough cleansing".
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