A business owner is heartbroken after the council demanded the removal of a 30ft gold nude statue from outside his shop - after one 'killjoy' bloke complained it was 'obscene'. Grant Adamson, 57, said it was a 'sad day' when the eye-popping icon of a Roman gladiator, used to promote the Russell Crowe blockbuster in 2000, was driven away on Tuesday.
The vintage store owner claims passersby love the lurid landmark in Ince, Greater Manchester, but believes the statue was given the boot by council chiefs after the bloke complained about the nudity, prompting a 'planning permission dispute'.
Grant, who runs Grant's Bulldog Forge, defends the statue as not being 'well hung' and that 'if it was put there by Michelangelo I'd have everybody in the world coming round looking at him'.
