I'd have liked to see comments from local people but none are attached to the articles. As for it being "a mystery woman" who carried this out, she must have had at the very least a large trailer to take away all of the items she removed from the site and somewhere to dispose of them. It was not a quick 10 minute job done with a pair of scissors and a couple of carrier bags.
There are ways to "tidy" any site but for someone or a group of someones to take it upon themselves to carry out this cowardly action, deliberately causing desecration of everything there including peoples' beliefs isn't the best way to go about it.
The local community have now come up with a plan to have a much more environmentally friendly practise of hanging clooties at the site which is to be commended, and hopefully their plans will be embraced at every site where clooties are left.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road