A man has pleaded not guilty to attacking a statue outside the BBC headquarters, causing more than £150,000 worth of damage.

David Chick, 58, of Bozeat, Northamptonshire, is accused of damaging the Grade-II listed statue in Portland Place, central ...

The Ariel and Prospero sculpture was hand-carved in 1932 by the artist, designer and sculptor Eric Gill, whose diaries – first published by biographer Fiona MacCarthy in 1989, after being ignored by ...