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07-10-2005, 15:32
Animated favourites Wallace and Gromit have become suprise victims of local superstition.
Posters for the new film The Curse of The Were Rabbit have been banned from the Isle of Portland Dorset.
For more than 100 years the word "Rabbit" has been considered bad luck in the area because burrowing caused by rabbits has caused land slips in the area's famous quarries.
Authorities on Portland,warned that the advertisements should not appear there because they could offend local people.
The only poster for the film is on the road out of Portland and it says "something bunny is going on".
Portland resdents wanting to see the film will have to travel to nearby Weymouth.
Source Sky news
Posters for the new film The Curse of The Were Rabbit have been banned from the Isle of Portland Dorset.
For more than 100 years the word "Rabbit" has been considered bad luck in the area because burrowing caused by rabbits has caused land slips in the area's famous quarries.
Authorities on Portland,warned that the advertisements should not appear there because they could offend local people.
The only poster for the film is on the road out of Portland and it says "something bunny is going on".
Portland resdents wanting to see the film will have to travel to nearby Weymouth.
Source Sky news