Nottingham Post commented Ilkeston's Gnome Island: 'Why I'm not laughing'

THIS past week has been like a bad dream, with my beloved home town reduced to a laughing stock over a garden ornament.The saga of Gnome Island has generated pun-ridden headlines around the world.It all began six months ago when a local resident decided to decorate a new traffic island in Ilkeston with a few garden gnomes. The ornaments came and went – clearly a gnomadic bunch, as one newspaper put it – and a little local joke caught on. The Ilson Gnome got his own...