Parents' disgust as Labour council hires actor in rainbow coloured monkey costume with fake pen is and nipples to appear at library event encouraging children to readThe Redbridge Libraries Summer Reading Challenge run by Redbridge Council in east London set up the event but the library has since apologised for the 'inappropriate' costume. A full investigation has also been launched by the council to get to the bottom of how taxpayers' money was used to hire the actors. Labour councillor Jas Athwal has apologised and tweeted: 'I was appalled by the incident in Redbridge Libraries on Saturday. Completely inappropriate and deeply offensive performers were hired by independent contractor Vision who manage Redbridge libraries and leisure centres. As soon as I was made aware of the performers, I immediately contacted Vision and the event was stopped. I have launched a full and thorough investigation into how these performers were hired by Vision and will put stringent measures in place to ensure something like this can't happen again.'
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