Councillor resigns claiming repeated rumours he is Banksy are ‘undermining his work’

A local councillor in Wales has resigned just weeks into the job because people repeatedly accused him of being the famous street artist Banksy.

William Gannon won the race to serve the people of Pembroke Dock in Pembrokeshire, a rural area in southwest Wales, at the local elections earlier this month.

Mr Gannon, known as "Bill", has worked as a community artist for 40 years and used to operate in the same locations and do similar work to Banksy, whose iconic work can be found in several cities across the UK.