PA Media A black car overturned after crashing in Piccadilly Circus Two people have been injured in a car crash in Piccadilly Circus, central London. Pictures show a heavily damaged vehicle lying on its roof near the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, popularly known as Eros. The emergency services were called at about 05:30 BST to reports...
The All England Club is set to recognise Sir Andy Murray’s contribution to tennis with a statue of him at Wimbledon. Murray ended Britain’s 77-year wait for a men’s singles champion at Wimbledon with a memorable victory over Novak Djokovic in 2013, and triumphed again at SW19 in 2016 when he beat Milos Raonic. Former...
Legendary Pakistan fast bowler Wasim Akram praised the “effort” that went into his newly unveiled statue, despite it being mocked on social media. The statue is situated outside the Niaz Stadium in Hyderabad and depicts Akram in Pakistan’s 1999 World Cup kit, where they were runners-up. It captures Akram in his slingy bowling action but...
Kyrgyzstan has taken down a huge statue of the revolutionary Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, which was thought to be the tallest in Central Asia. First erected when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet Union, the 23m-tall monument towered over the city of Osh for 50 years before it was quietly removed this week. Photos emerged...
A brand new statue of of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow. Meanwhile, an adviser to President Putin recently argued that the Soviet Union in fact still exists, because of a procedural error in the process of dissolving it. More than three years on from Russia’s full-scale...
“Melania” appeared on the banks of the River Sava in July 2020, four months before her human inspiration left the White House. Now, four months after the erstwhile Melanija Knavs resumed residence at Washington’s most famous address, her larger-than-life-size avatar has apparently made an undignified exit from her Slovenian hometown, Sevnica. All that remains of...
Alex McIntyre BBC News, West Midlands Lee Blakeman BBC Radio Stoke BBC A statue of Motörhead frontman Lemmy has been unveiled in his hometown A statue of legendary heavy metal frontman Lemmy Kilmister has been unveiled in the late singer’s hometown. Hundreds of music fans flocked into Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, throughout Friday before the black-coloured 2.25m...
The government will make it a crime to climb on Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square, it will be announced today. Offenders could face up to three months in prison and a £1,000 fine for desecrating the monument to Britain’s wartime leader. The Churchill statue is not officially classified as one of the UK’s war...
A new statue of crime writer Agatha Christie has been unveiled in her home town of Torquay. The statue, by local artist Elisabeth Hadley, will be the focal point of the Devon seaside town’s new £4m harbourside plaza. It depicts the author, who was born in Torquay in 1890, and her favourite dog, Peter. The...
Paul Glynn Culture reporter BBC The statue was seen being unveiled with a new protective covering on Wednesday morning A controversial statue carved by the sculptor Eric Gill has been restored and is being unveiled outside the BBC’s London headquarters. The Grade II-listed statue was damaged in 2022 and 2023, when it was attacked by...
CCTV captured the moment the two men damaged the Paddington Bear statue A Paddington statue that was ripped from a bench by two RAF engineers is to be reinstalled. The homage to the famous bear has been repaired and repainted and will be unveiled during a ceremony in Newbury, Berkshire, on Wednesday. Part of the...
Getty Images The council said it received complaints about members of the public and particularly tourists touching the Molly Malone statue Stewards are to be stationed next to a statue of Molly Malone in Dublin to discourage people from touching it. Dublin City Council is running a pilot scheme for a week in May after...
Two RAF engineers have admitted they broke a newly-installed Paddington Bear statue in half and stole it from a bench. Daniel Heath, 22, of Oakhall Park, Thornton, West Yorkshire, and William Lawrence, 22, of John Street, Enderby, Leicestershire, both admitted an offence of criminal damage at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. The statue on Northbrook...
