It added shoppers avoided coming to the town as they feared encountering protesters.<\/p>\n
Epsom BID said one of the town’s heritage buildings had suffered criminal damage costing \u00a315,000.<\/p>\n
“Bulk incidents of theft have been carried out, huge volumes of eggs were stolen to pelt police,” they said.<\/p>\n
“And floral displays around the town were destroyed.”<\/p>\n
The statement added: “For Epsom’s economy and business community, it has been nothing short of disastrous.”<\/p>\n
Karen Pengelly, Epsom’s BID manager, said they would be working with Surrey Police to identify the offenders.<\/p>\n
She hoped the town could “focus on the positives”, especially with Surrey Day approaching on 9 May.<\/p>\n
“There is much to celebrate about Epsom,” she added. “We will continue our long established tradition of welcoming all.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It added shoppers avoided coming to the town as they feared encountering protesters. Epsom BID said one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-549430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}