A Banksy has appeared overnight on the wall of one of the garages round Ash Grove. The mural, by anonymous graffiti artist Banksy, aka Kevin Snelling, 42, from Sarratt Bottom, depicts a mother sending her anarchist son off to school. 

The garage is adjacent to the site of the proposed Youth Centre which has caused much controversy. The painting is thought to be a protest against providing leisure facilities for bored teenagers in a decaying society. 

Unspoilt original Banksys have often been sold for five figure sums and it appears the ownership of the garage wall is in dispute. The Harefield Rural District Council claim to own the garage, whilst Mrs. Wanton, who lives next door to the park claims the painting belongs to her by rights of finders keepers. 

A council spokesman informed us that as a treasured work of art the council would probably dismantle the garage and re-erect it in the council art gallery by the library. 

Mrs. Wanton told the Scandal “That’s my husband’s garage. He might rent it from the council but who painted the wall first before Banksy eh? My old man that’s who! They can take their wall down but they can’t take the paint off the wall. We own that. My husband works ever so hard and I’m on my own most of the day. I’m so alone. I leave a box of Omo in the window”. 

Omo. Old Man Out. 

Art lovers from all over Middlesex have flocked to Harefield to view the Banksy before it is removed or painted over. Ash Grove residents have placed barriers across all three entrances to the estate and are charging £10 per person to visit the display with free parking. 

“There’s ample parking here round Ash Grove” Mr. Smudger, 65, retired,  told our reporter. “Most of us have concreted over our front gardens to park our white vans and caravans so you can always get parked when you drive home pissed”. 

A neighbour, Mrs. Sally Fudgecakes, 53 , widowed, corrected him “You can’t get parked round here you silly arse. That’s why we don’t want a youth centre. That and the noise and the drugs and the goings-on. Anyway the last time you drove home pissed you parked in my goldfish pond!”  

  

Mr. Smudger’s car in Mrs. Fudgecake’s goldfish pond. Possibly.