A protester has pleaded not guilty to attacking a statue by Eric Gill outside the BBC headquarters - said to have caused more than £150,000 worth of damage. David Chick, 58, of Bozeat ...

Above its main entrance, Prospero and Ariel, Eric Gill’s 1931 sculpture, has now been encased in a transparent box, meaning that it looks like something you put 20p in to see some puppets dancing.

The BBC has come under scrutiny for restoring a statue by Eric Gill despite public calls for its removal due to the artist’s history of abuse. In 2022, a protester attempted to damage the statue ...

This is because Gill – an artist feted in his day for his public works and influential typography, notably Gill Sans – was revealed in a 1989 biography to have sexually abused his two ...