‘This hate and desecration has no place in our city’: Mayor responds after Martin Luther King Jr statue is vandalized with swastika and SS bolts in Long Beach Police responded to call on Friday and are investigating graffiti as a hate crime A photo on social media showed the statue of civil rights icon Martin … Read more
Hundreds have flocked to Kensington Palace in west London today to get a glimpse of the new statue to Princess Diana. But members of the public gave it a mixed reaction, with some saying she ‘looks beautiful’ while others think ‘it doesn’t look like her’. The eight-foot sculpture showing her with three ethnically diverse children … Read more
Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square is defaced with pro-Chelsea graffiti after club’s Champions League win Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square has been scrawled in graffiti Graffiti read ‘Chelsea’, ‘CFC’ and ‘1905’ – the year the London club was founded The Metropolitan Police are investigating the vandalism following UEFA final By Jack Wright For Mailonline … Read more
Prince Harry and William are said to have signed off on a final design for the statue of Princess Diana, which is set to be revealed at Kensington Palace in London on July 1.
A wooden statue discovered in Russia in 1890 is more ancient than previously thought, making it twice as old as Stonehenge, researchers claim. The Shigir Idol was first discovered by Russian gold miners who stumbled upon the large object in the Shigir peat bog 62 miles north of Yekaterinburg. Radiocarbon dating from the 1990s placed … Read more
Statue of politician Henry Dundas in Edinburgh will have a plaque added detailing his role in delaying the abolition of slavery after it was targeted during BLM protests Statue of Henry Dundas sits atop the Melville Monument in St Andrews Square BLM activists left signs at the monument saying ‘Bring down Dundas’ in June Scotland’s … Read more
Police have launched an investigation into suspected criminal damage after a local artist erected a statue of Margaret Thatcher’s severed head on a pike in the former Prime Minister’s home town at the weekend. Welshman Mark Roberts, who uses the pseudonym Markrobla, hoisted his carved plaster version of the Iron Lady on a plinth in … Read more
Sadiq Khan’s review of London’s statues and street names linked to Britain’s colonial past received a major blow today after a hard-left crusader he appointed to his ‘diversity’ taskforce quit due to allegations of racism and anti-Semitism. Toyin Agbetu has admitted he jumped before being pushed, accusing critics of ‘Afriphobia’ and conspiring with Priti Patel’s … Read more
Dolly Parton politely declines Tennessee legislators’ bill to erect a statue of her on Capitol grounds Dolly Parton, 75, has pushed back on a bill aiming to erect a monument of her on the Capitol grounds in her home state of Tennessee State representative John Mark Windle introduced legislation last month to create and design … Read more
PAUL THOMAS on… a statue for Captain Tom By Paul Thomas For The Daily Mail Published: 02:04 GMT, 4 February 2021 | Updated: 02:04 GMT, 4 February 2021 Advertisement To order a print of this Paul Thomas cartoon or one by Pugh, visit Mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk or call 0191 6030 178. Share or comment on this article: