Spotted: Welshpool page causing outrage

A ‘Spotted’ social media page launched last week in the wake of the now closed unofficial High School page has caused outrage in Welshpool.

Spotted: Welshpool, which allows followers to post remarks about other people anonymously, has attracted over 500 subscribers but its content has enraged many.

Expletives and derogatory statements about women litter the newsfeed and, while police say they are monitoring the page, it continues to attract followers by spreading controversy and gossip.

“I have called the police because the remarks on there are hugely offensive and just not right,” one reader told us on email. “It has to be taken down as everyone is talking about how sad and wrong it is.”

But as the controversy increases, the number of posts also becomes more frequent with over a dozen this morning alone. Some of them spark huge rows between followers read by all.

The Spotted craze has taken Britain by storm since Christmas, but most have been taken down long before it finally got to Welshpool.

The Spotted: Welshpool High School page closed down last week after just 24 hours while the Spotted: Coleg Powys page also suffered the same fate shortly after.