Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Artwork by Banksy in central London will be removed

Westminster City Council has ordered a 23ft-high (7m) mural, entitled One Nation Under CCTV, to be removed from a building on Newman Street. The artist's sketches have sold for thousands of pounds at auctions but deputy leader of the council Robert Davis said keeping the mural would mean "condoning" graffiti.
The mural has the words "One Nation Under CCTV" stencilled above two painted people. One appears to be a child in a red hooded top apparently painting the words, while a police officer holding a camera and a brown dog look on. The mural is painted on the wall of a building shared by Royal Mail and another business.

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