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The Independent UK
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Josh Payne

University condemns ‘defacement’ as employee accused of egging Thatcher statue

PA Wire

A university has said it “does not condone defacement” after one of its staff members was accused of egging a statue of Margaret Thatcher.

Jeremy Webster, who is deputy director at the University of Leicester’s Attenborough Arts Centre, is alleged to have been responsible for the incident which happened shortly after the memorial’s installation in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on Sunday morning.

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