Tunnel division! Row as 143-year-old Queensbury Tunnel is threatened by Highways England ‘cultural vandals’ who want to block the historic structure Queensbury Tunnel is threatened by ‘cultural vandals’ at Highways England Campaigners who want to turn it into Britain’s longest underground cycle path Some 7,700 objections lodged against controversial proposal in West Yorkshire By Richard … Read more
Heartless vandals trash flowers at a Captain Tom Covid memorial and destroy a plaque to victims of the pandemic: Locals slam ‘thoughtless’ yobs behind ‘disgusting’ attack Vandals have ripped out flowers from a wreath placed at a coronavirus memorial A plaque honouring Captain Sir Tom Moore was also damaged in Stoke-on-Trent Local residents have hit … Read more
Two teenagers are arrested after vandals torched three of Britain’s most expensive beach huts worth up to £300,000 each at Dorset beauty spot Two men, aged 15 and 19 , have been arrested in connection with the blazes Three beach huts in Hengistbury Head, Dorset, set alight on Saturday morning Thirty of the huts were … Read more
Treasure hunters target Welsh beach where girl, four, discovered 215million-year-old dinosaur footprint as vandals armed with sledgehammers and crowbars try to remove rocks Lily Wilder found the dinosaur footprint on a beach at Bendricks Bay near Barry Armed vandals have since descended on the beach to get a glimpse of her find Environmentalists said ‘several people’ … Read more
Arsonists torch 5G mast to leave 2,700 without phone or broadband as Covid conspiracy theorists are blamed for third Chelmsford attack in a year Arson attack took place in early hours of Sunday morning in Chelmsford, Essex Damage meant thousands working and learning from home did not have internet Engineers are still on site and … Read more
Vandals paint Covid mask on the Long Man of Wilmington as police launch hunt to track down the anonymous artists who decorated mysterious 235ft chalk figure Modern PPE mask appeared on the historic Long Man in East Sussex on Tuesday Police are investigating “criminal damage” at the protected archaeological site The owners are “saddened” but revealed … Read more
Oxford Circus tube station is left covered in graffiti by ‘Diabolical Dubstars’ vandals who ran amok while London’s biggest shopping street was closed due to Tier 4 restrictions The artwork was found on Boxing Day and features a tribute to Grenfell Tower It is alleged the graffiti artist group Diabolical Dubstars tagged the tube station … Read more
Vandals decapitate statue commemorating all the soldiers killed in First World War as police launch investigation Statue, which was standing in Watford, Hertfordshire, was discovered yesterday Resident Paul Johnson was shocked when he came across decapitated statue He said: ‘It’s disgraceful. I just could not believe what I saw to be honest’ By Harry Howard … Read more
His most famous creation was James Bond, but even 007’s global fame has proved unable to protect Ian Fleming’s grave from vandalism. The grave, at St James’ Church, Sevenhampton, in Wiltshire, is the final resting place not just of Fleming, who died from a heart attack in 1964 aged 56, but also of his wife, … Read more
Elvis Presley’s iconic Graceland estate in Memphis was defaced by vandals overnight with ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Defund the Police’ graffiti. The protest slogans were painted in thick black and orange lettering on the stone wall that surrounds the King’s mansion along Elvis Presley Boulevard, the Commercial Appeal first reported. Graceland, where Elvis lived for … Read more