The Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival saw Bourne Borderers Morris Dancers and other groups opting to paint their faces dark green and blue, just over a year after blackface tradition was scrapped.
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Silurian Border Morrismen performed their English folk dance routine to crowds of onlookers in Ledbury, Herefordshire, with their faces painted dark green instead.
The Silurian Border Morrismen have voted to stop dancing with blacked up faces - and switch to green paint instead, ditching a tradition which dates back more than 500 years.