‘I’ll be reading a book’: Nottingham public indifferent to King Charles coronation

Council’s preparations are under way but excitement is muted and some say they are unlikely to watch

Chris Booth spent much of Tuesday morning supervising the installation of a crown 4.2 metres wide on the stone columns at the front of Nottingham’s Council House.

The crown had been brought out of a council depot (where it is stored alongside a vast goose that appears annually for the Nottingham goose fair), repainted and had had its plastic pearls retrofitted with LED bulbs so they can be lit up at night.