Impossible to remove shortcuts

[Louiss97]

Use mobile or fixed line phone with 4g router internal sim card
Have tried a huge number of times to remove homescreen shortcuts as follows - press lightly on shortcut until it becomes moveable and a flag flies out of the shorcut with two options - either "select item" or "remove from home screen" . The latter also shows a trash can logo. Dragging the shortcut to either has no effect whether I do it instantly or pause slightly first. The shortcut just becomes firm again. Despite what it says in the manual there is no other trash can on the screen to drag it to.
This is driving me nuts, can anybody advise please?

[sculptedstylus]

Hm-m-m, that certainly should work! Have you tried tapping and dragging it to the top of the tablet? If that doesn't work you could try employing a 3rd party launcher, I use Nova on mine.