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A lifelong Labour voter has been told a 30ft graffiti mural of David Cameron throttling a nurse on the side of his house will have to go.

Retired Tony Davis, 73, is so passionate about politics he commissioned a local street artist to create the giant work on his end-of-terrace property.

The mural, 30ft long and 10ft high, shows the Prime Minister with his hand around a nurse's throat, with the backdrop of Westminster and Clifton Suspension Bridge.

A caption on the Bristol home reads: "Safe in his hands?" before urging people to vote Labour.

But self-employed builder Tony has received a letter telling him to remove the mural or face legal action for breaching advertising rules.

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If he refuses to remove it, he could eventually be fined up to £20,000 under the Town and Country Planning Act.

Tony said: "I've had a notice of prosecution. If you are a commercial premises you can advertise anything but if you are a private premises you are restricted to a size of 2ft by 3ft.

"But this applies to hoardings - not something that is painted on the wall like mine is.

"Also my question is, what exactly am I meant to be advertising?"

Tony has seven days to reply with the notice but claims his attempts to speak to the council's enforcement department by phone have so far been unsuccessful.

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He had intended to keep the mural after the election, even though Labour lost, because he claims it has "brightened up" the area".

He added: "As far as I'm concerned it's not going anywhere soon."

A South Gloucestershire Council spokesperson said: "On April 21 it was brought to our enforcement team's attention that a mural had been displayed on the side of Mr Davis' house.

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"On assessment, the planning enforcement team considered the mural to be an advertisement without the necessary prior advertisement consent and, as such, a standard letter was sent on April 28, requiring the removal of the advertisement in 14 days.

"Whilst the letter does identify that advertisements without the necessary consents are illegal and includes a caution, it is not a formal enforcement notice.

"The letter requests a response from the recipient within seven days to confirm if they believe the advertisement not to be illegal, confirm their intentions to apply for consent, or to confirm removal."