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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 22/10/2018. Bristol, UK. Modern Slavery. Avon & Somerset police today launch a new campaign that aims to increase the amount of intelligence they receive on Modern Day Slavery and raise awareness of this form of exploitative crime. The campaign, called #TellUsWhatYouSee, aims to educate the public on the signs and indicators of various forms of modern day slavery, as well as details of how and where to report this information, in order to help police tackle this crime. File picture dated 21/10/2018 of an unofficial guerilla art exhibit that appeared last week in front of a city centre statue of Edward Colston to link Bristol’s slave-trading history with modern-day slavery, and to mark Anti-Slavery Day to raise awareness of and campaign to end modern slavery in the UK. (There is no suggestion that the police are responsible for the art exhibit). The artwork depicts around 100 human figures lying in front of the statue of slave-trader merchant Edward Colston. The figures have been placed in a similar formation to the way millions of people from West Africa were forced to lie on board slave ships sent from Bristol and other English ports to be transported to Bristol business-owned slave plantations in the Caribbean and North America. The outline of the ship was made up of blocks with the kind of professions and jobs now done by modern-day slaves, living and forced to work in Britain in 2018, such as ‘nail bar workers’, ‘sex worker’, ‘car wash attendant’, ‘domestic servant’, ‘fruit picker’, ‘kitchen worker’ and ‘farm worker’. The blocks are all chained together and the ones at the bow of the ship show the words ‘here and now’, with Edward Colston standing as if the ship's captain, gazing down on the bodies lying in rows on deck before him. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_MODERN_SLAVERY_181022_SCH_15.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 22/10/2018. Bristol, UK. Modern Slavery. Avon & Somerset police today launch a new campaign that aims to increase the amount of intelligence they receive on Modern Day Slavery and raise awareness of this form of exploitative crime. The campaign, called #TellUsWhatYouSee, aims to educate the public on the signs and indicators of various forms of modern day slavery, as well as details of how and where to report this information, in order to help police tackle this crime. File picture dated 21/10/2018 of an unofficial guerilla art exhibit that appeared last week in front of a city centre statue of Edward Colston to link Bristol’s slave-trading history with modern-day slavery, and to mark Anti-Slavery Day to raise awareness of and campaign to end modern slavery in the UK. (There is no suggestion that the police are responsible for the art exhibit). The artwork depicts around 100 human figures lying in front of the statue of slave-trader merchant Edward Colston. The figures have been placed in a similar formation to the way millions of people from West Africa were forced to lie on board slave ships sent from Bristol and other English ports to be transported to Bristol business-owned slave plantations in the Caribbean and North America. The outline of the ship was made up of blocks with the kind of professions and jobs now done by modern-day slaves, living and forced to work in Britain in 2018, such as ‘nail bar workers’, ‘sex worker’, ‘car wash attendant’, ‘domestic servant’, ‘fruit picker’, ‘kitchen worker’ and ‘farm worker’. The blocks are all chained together and the ones at the bow of the ship show the words ‘here and now’, with Edward Colston standing as if the ship's captain, gazing down on the bodies lying in rows on deck before him. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_MODERN_SLAVERY_181022_SCH_10.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 22/10/2018. Bristol, UK. Modern Slavery. Avon & Somerset police today launch a new campaign that aims to increase the amount of intelligence they receive on Modern Day Slavery and raise awareness of this form of exploitative crime. The campaign, called #TellUsWhatYouSee, aims to educate the public on the signs and indicators of various forms of modern day slavery, as well as details of how and where to report this information, in order to help police tackle this crime. File picture dated 21/10/2018 of an unofficial guerilla art exhibit that appeared last week in front of a city centre statue of Edward Colston to link Bristol’s slave-trading history with modern-day slavery, and to mark Anti-Slavery Day to raise awareness of and campaign to end modern slavery in the UK. (There is no suggestion that the police are responsible for the art exhibit). The artwork depicts around 100 human figures lying in front of the statue of slave-trader merchant Edward Colston. The figures have been placed in a similar formation to the way millions of people from West Africa were forced to lie on board slave ships sent from Bristol and other English ports to be transported to Bristol business-owned slave plantations in the Caribbean and North America. The outline of the ship was made up of blocks with the kind of professions and jobs now done by modern-day slaves, living and forced to work in Britain in 2018, such as ‘nail bar workers’, ‘sex worker’, ‘car wash attendant’, ‘domestic servant’, ‘fruit picker’, ‘kitchen worker’ and ‘farm worker’. The blocks are all chained together and the ones at the bow of the ship show the words ‘here and now’, with Edward Colston standing as if the ship's captain, gazing down on the bodies lying in rows on deck before him. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_MODERN_SLAVERY_181022_SCH_13.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 22/10/2018. Bristol, UK. Modern Slavery. Avon & Somerset police today launch a new campaign that aims to increase the amount of intelligence they receive on Modern Day Slavery and raise awareness of this form of exploitative crime. The campaign, called #TellUsWhatYouSee, aims to educate the public on the signs and indicators of various forms of modern day slavery, as well as details of how and where to report this information, in order to help police tackle this crime. File picture dated 21/10/2018 of an unofficial guerilla art exhibit that appeared last week in front of a city centre statue of Edward Colston to link Bristol’s slave-trading history with modern-day slavery, and to mark Anti-Slavery Day to raise awareness of and campaign to end modern slavery in the UK. (There is no suggestion that the police are responsible for the art exhibit). The artwork depicts around 100 human figures lying in front of the statue of slave-trader merchant Edward Colston. The figures have been placed in a similar formation to the way millions of people from West Africa were forced to lie on board slave ships sent from Bristol and other English ports to be transported to Bristol business-owned slave plantations in the Caribbean and North America. The outline of the ship was made up of blocks with the kind of professions and jobs now done by modern-day slaves, living and forced to work in Britain in 2018, such as ‘nail bar workers’, ‘sex worker’, ‘car wash attendant’, ‘domestic servant’, ‘fruit picker’, ‘kitchen worker’ and ‘farm worker’. The blocks are all chained together and the ones at the bow of the ship show the words ‘here and now’, with Edward Colston standing as if the ship's captain, gazing down on the bodies lying in rows on deck before him. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_MODERN_SLAVERY_181022_SCH_09.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 22/10/2018. Bristol, UK. Modern Slavery. Avon & Somerset police today launch a new campaign that aims to increase the amount of intelligence they receive on Modern Day Slavery and raise awareness of this form of exploitative crime. The campaign, called #TellUsWhatYouSee, aims to educate the public on the signs and indicators of various forms of modern day slavery, as well as details of how and where to report this information, in order to help police tackle this crime. File picture dated 21/10/2018 of an unofficial guerilla art exhibit that appeared last week in front of a city centre statue of Edward Colston to link Bristol’s slave-trading history with modern-day slavery, and to mark Anti-Slavery Day to raise awareness of and campaign to end modern slavery in the UK. (There is no suggestion that the police are responsible for the art exhibit). The artwork depicts around 100 human figures lying in front of the statue of slave-trader merchant Edward Colston. The figures have been placed in a similar formation to the way millions of people from West Africa were forced to lie on board slave ships sent from Bristol and other English ports to be transported to Bristol business-owned slave plantations in the Caribbean and North America. The outline of the ship was made up of blocks with the kind of professions and jobs now done by modern-day slaves, living and forced to work in Britain in 2018, such as ‘nail bar workers’, ‘sex worker’, ‘car wash attendant’, ‘domestic servant’, ‘fruit picker’, ‘kitchen worker’ and ‘farm worker’. The blocks are all chained together and the ones at the bow of the ship show the words ‘here and now’, with Edward Colston standing as if the ship's captain, gazing down on the bodies lying in rows on deck before him. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_MODERN_SLAVERY_181022_SCH_05.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 22/10/2018. Bristol, UK. Modern Slavery. Avon & Somerset police today launch a new campaign that aims to increase the amount of intelligence they receive on Modern Day Slavery and raise awareness of this form of exploitative crime. The campaign, called #TellUsWhatYouSee, aims to educate the public on the signs and indicators of various forms of modern day slavery, as well as details of how and where to report this information, in order to help police tackle this crime. File picture dated 21/10/2018 of an unofficial guerilla art exhibit that appeared last week in front of a city centre statue of Edward Colston to link Bristol’s slave-trading history with modern-day slavery, and to mark Anti-Slavery Day to raise awareness of and campaign to end modern slavery in the UK. (There is no suggestion that the police are responsible for the art exhibit). The artwork depicts around 100 human figures lying in front of the statue of slave-trader merchant Edward Colston. The figures have been placed in a similar formation to the way millions of people from West Africa were forced to lie on board slave ships sent from Bristol and other English ports to be transported to Bristol business-owned slave plantations in the Caribbean and North America. The outline of the ship was made up of blocks with the kind of professions and jobs now done by modern-day slaves, living and forced to work in Britain in 2018, such as ‘nail bar workers’, ‘sex worker’, ‘car wash attendant’, ‘domestic servant’, ‘fruit picker’, ‘kitchen worker’ and ‘farm worker’. The blocks are all chained together and the ones at the bow of the ship show the words ‘here and now’, with Edward Colston standing as if the ship's captain, gazing down on the bodies lying in rows on deck before him. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_MODERN_SLAVERY_181022_SCH_03.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 22/10/2018. Bristol, UK. Modern Slavery. Avon & Somerset police today launch a new campaign that aims to increase the amount of intelligence they receive on Modern Day Slavery and raise awareness of this form of exploitative crime. The campaign, called #TellUsWhatYouSee, aims to educate the public on the signs and indicators of various forms of modern day slavery, as well as details of how and where to report this information, in order to help police tackle this crime. File picture dated 21/10/2018 of an unofficial guerilla art exhibit that appeared last week in front of a city centre statue of Edward Colston to link Bristol’s slave-trading history with modern-day slavery, and to mark Anti-Slavery Day to raise awareness of and campaign to end modern slavery in the UK. (There is no suggestion that the police are responsible for the art exhibit). The artwork depicts around 100 human figures lying in front of the statue of slave-trader merchant Edward Colston. The figures have been placed in a similar formation to the way millions of people from West Africa were forced to lie on board slave ships sent from Bristol and other English ports to be transported to Bristol business-owned slave plantations in the Caribbean and North America. The outline of the ship was made up of blocks with the kind of professions and jobs now done by modern-day slaves, living and forced to work in Britain in 2018, such as ‘nail bar workers’, ‘sex worker’, ‘car wash attendant’, ‘domestic servant’, ‘fruit picker’, ‘kitchen worker’ and ‘farm worker’. The blocks are all chained together and the ones at the bow of the ship show the words ‘here and now’, with Edward Colston standing as if the ship's captain, gazing down on the bodies lying in rows on deck before him. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_MODERN_SLAVERY_181022_SCH_20.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 22/10/2018. Bristol, UK. Modern Slavery. Avon & Somerset police today launch a new campaign that aims to increase the amount of intelligence they receive on Modern Day Slavery and raise awareness of this form of exploitative crime. The campaign, called #TellUsWhatYouSee, aims to educate the public on the signs and indicators of various forms of modern day slavery, as well as details of how and where to report this information, in order to help police tackle this crime. File picture dated 21/10/2018 of an unofficial guerilla art exhibit that appeared last week in front of a city centre statue of Edward Colston to link Bristol’s slave-trading history with modern-day slavery, and to mark Anti-Slavery Day to raise awareness of and campaign to end modern slavery in the UK. (There is no suggestion that the police are responsible for the art exhibit). The artwork depicts around 100 human figures lying in front of the statue of slave-trader merchant Edward Colston. The figures have been placed in a similar formation to the way millions of people from West Africa were forced to lie on board slave ships sent from Bristol and other English ports to be transported to Bristol business-owned slave plantations in the Caribbean and North America. The outline of the ship was made up of blocks with the kind of professions and jobs now done by modern-day slaves, living and forced to work in Britain in 2018, such as ‘nail bar workers’, ‘sex worker’, ‘car wash attendant’, ‘domestic servant’, ‘fruit picker’, ‘kitchen worker’ and ‘farm worker’. The blocks are all chained together and the ones at the bow of the ship show the words ‘here and now’, with Edward Colston standing as if the ship's captain, gazing down on the bodies lying in rows on deck before him. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_MODERN_SLAVERY_181022_SCH_06.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 22/10/2018. Bristol, UK. Modern Slavery. Avon & Somerset police today launch a new campaign that aims to increase the amount of intelligence they receive on Modern Day Slavery and raise awareness of this form of exploitative crime. The campaign, called #TellUsWhatYouSee, aims to educate the public on the signs and indicators of various forms of modern day slavery, as well as details of how and where to report this information, in order to help police tackle this crime. File picture dated 21/10/2018 of an unofficial guerilla art exhibit that appeared last week in front of a city centre statue of Edward Colston to link Bristol’s slave-trading history with modern-day slavery, and to mark Anti-Slavery Day to raise awareness of and campaign to end modern slavery in the UK. (There is no suggestion that the police are responsible for the art exhibit). The artwork depicts around 100 human figures lying in front of the statue of slave-trader merchant Edward Colston. The figures have been placed in a similar formation to the way millions of people from West Africa were forced to lie on board slave ships sent from Bristol and other English ports to be transported to Bristol business-owned slave plantations in the Caribbean and North America. The outline of the ship was made up of blocks with the kind of professions and jobs now done by modern-day slaves, living and forced to work in Britain in 2018, such as ‘nail bar workers’, ‘sex worker’, ‘car wash attendant’, ‘domestic servant’, ‘fruit picker’, ‘kitchen worker’ and ‘farm worker’. The blocks are all chained together and the ones at the bow of the ship show the words ‘here and now’, with Edward Colston standing as if the ship's captain, gazing down on the bodies lying in rows on deck before him. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_MODERN_SLAVERY_181022_SCH_01.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 22/10/2018. Bristol, UK. Modern Slavery. Avon & Somerset police today launch a new campaign that aims to increase the amount of intelligence they receive on Modern Day Slavery and raise awareness of this form of exploitative crime. The campaign, called #TellUsWhatYouSee, aims to educate the public on the signs and indicators of various forms of modern day slavery, as well as details of how and where to report this information, in order to help police tackle this crime. File picture dated 21/10/2018 of an unofficial guerilla art exhibit that appeared last week in front of a city centre statue of Edward Colston to link Bristol’s slave-trading history with modern-day slavery, and to mark Anti-Slavery Day to raise awareness of and campaign to end modern slavery in the UK. (There is no suggestion that the police are responsible for the art exhibit). The artwork depicts around 100 human figures lying in front of the statue of slave-trader merchant Edward Colston. The figures have been placed in a similar formation to the way millions of people from West Africa were forced to lie on board slave ships sent from Bristol and other English ports to be transported to Bristol business-owned slave plantations in the Caribbean and North America. The outline of the ship was made up of blocks with the kind of professions and jobs now done by modern-day slaves, living and forced to work in Britain in 2018, such as ‘nail bar workers’, ‘sex worker’, ‘car wash attendant’, ‘domestic servant’, ‘fruit picker’, ‘kitchen worker’ and ‘farm worker’. The blocks are all chained together and the ones at the bow of the ship show the words ‘here and now’, with Edward Colston standing as if the ship's captain, gazing down on the bodies lying in rows on deck before him. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_MODERN_SLAVERY_181022_SCH_02.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures.  12/09/2011. LEIGHTON BUZZARD, UK. A general view taken today (Monday) of the Green Acres Caravan Park where 5 people were arrested yesterday (Sunday) on charges of slavery. Photo credit :  Cliff Hide/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures.  12/09/2011. LEIGHTON BUZZARD, UK. A general view taken today (Monday) of the Green Acres Caravan Park where 5 people were arrested yesterday (Sunday) on charges of slavery. Photo credit :  Cliff Hide/LNP
    LNP_Slavery_Arrests_CHI_02.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures.  12/09/2011. LEIGHTON BUZZARD, UK. A general view taken today (Monday) of the Green Acres Caravan Park where 5 people were arrested yesterday (Sunday) on charges of slavery. Photo credit :  Cliff Hide/LNP
    LNP_Slavery_Arrests_CHI_04.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures.  12/09/2011. LEIGHTON BUZZARD, UK. A general view taken today (Monday) of the Green Acres Caravan Park where 5 people were arrested yesterday (Sunday) on charges of slavery. Photo credit :  Cliff Hide/LNP
    LNP_Slavery_Arrests_CHI_03.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures.  12/09/2011. LEIGHTON BUZZARD, UK. A general view taken today (Monday) of the Green Acres Caravan Park where 5 people were arrested yesterday (Sunday) on charges of slavery. Photo credit :  Cliff Hide/LNP
    LNP_Slavery_Arrests_CHI_01.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/06/2020. London, UK.  Workmen board up the statue of Thomas Guy at Guys And St Thomas’s Hospital Trust after pressure from anti-racist groups recognise the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery. In London, Britain, Jun 12, 2020. In a statement, the hospital trust had recognised the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery of Thomas Guy. Photo credit: Ray Tang/LNP
    LNP_RTG_THOMAS_GUY_STATUE_01.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 12/06/2020; Bristol, UK. The University of Bristol's crests on the Wills Memorial Building. The University of Bristol is considering changing the names of some of its buildings including the Wills tower in response to the Black Lives Matters campaign and concern over links to slavery. In an email to students yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice-Chancellor said the University is determined to become an anti-racist organisation, and that the University recognises how money from the transatlantic slave trade indirectly benefitted the University through philanthropic donations including from the Wills family who made money from the tobacco industry which had links to slavery. The University will review the names of buildings such as the Wills Memorial Building, Wills Hall for student accommodation and the Colston Street student accommodation. It also promises to review the University’s logo, which carries links to the slave trade. At a Black Lives Matter protest the previous Sunday the statue of slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down with ropes and thrown in Bristol Docks by protesters during the BLM rally and march through the city centre in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
    LNP_UNIVERSITY_OF_BRISTOL_200612_SCH...jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 12/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Views of the University of Bristol's Wills Memorial Building. The University of Bristol is considering changing the names of some of its buildings including the Wills tower in response to the Black Lives Matters campaign and concern over links to slavery. In an email to students yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice-Chancellor said the University is determined to become an anti-racist organisation, and that the University recognises how money from the transatlantic slave trade indirectly benefitted the University through philanthropic donations including from the Wills family who made money from the tobacco industry which had links to slavery. The University will review the names of buildings such as the Wills Memorial Building, Wills Hall for student accommodation and the Colston Street student accommodation. It also promises to review the University’s logo, which carries links to the slave trade. At a Black Lives Matter protest the previous Sunday the statue of slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down with ropes and thrown in Bristol Docks by protesters during the BLM rally and march through the city centre in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
    LNP_UNIVERSITY_OF_BRISTOL_200612_SCH...jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 12/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Views of the University of Bristol's Wills Memorial Building. The University of Bristol is considering changing the names of some of its buildings including the Wills tower in response to the Black Lives Matters campaign and concern over links to slavery. In an email to students yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice-Chancellor said the University is determined to become an anti-racist organisation, and that the University recognises how money from the transatlantic slave trade indirectly benefitted the University through philanthropic donations including from the Wills family who made money from the tobacco industry which had links to slavery. The University will review the names of buildings such as the Wills Memorial Building, Wills Hall for student accommodation and the Colston Street student accommodation. It also promises to review the University’s logo, which carries links to the slave trade. At a Black Lives Matter protest the previous Sunday the statue of slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down with ropes and thrown in Bristol Docks by protesters during the BLM rally and march through the city centre in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
    LNP_UNIVERSITY_OF_BRISTOL_200612_SCH...jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/06/2020. London, UK.  Workmen board up the statue of Thomas Guy at Guys And St Thomas’s Hospital Trust after pressure from anti-racist groups recognise the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery. In London, Britain, Jun 12, 2020. In a statement, the hospital trust had recognised the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery of Thomas Guy. Photo credit: Ray Tang/LNP
    LNP_RTG_THOMAS_GUY_STATUE_08.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2018. Bristol, UK. SALVATORE LOPRESTI (in hat) arrives at Bristol Crown Court on the first day of legal proceedings, charged with offences relating to modern slavery. Avon and Somerset Police have charged Salvatore ‘Sam’ Lopresti, 74, and Robert Lopresti, 45, with requiring a person to perform forced labour. Sam Lopresti was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<br />
The family have run an ice cream business in the Bristol area for over 50 years. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_LOPRESTI_COURT_181102_SCH_17.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2018. Bristol, UK. SALVATORE LOPRESTI (in hat) leaves Bristol Crown Court on the first day of legal proceedings, charged with offences relating to modern slavery. Avon and Somerset Police have charged Salvatore ‘Sam’ Lopresti, 74, and Robert Lopresti, 45, with requiring a person to perform forced labour. Sam Lopresti was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<br />
The family have run an ice cream business in the Bristol area for over 50 years. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_LOPRESTI_COURT_181102_SCH_12.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2018. Bristol, UK. ROBERT LOPRESTI leaves Bristol Crown Court on the first day of legal proceedings, charged with offences relating to modern slavery. Avon and Somerset Police have charged Salvatore ‘Sam’ Lopresti, 74, and Robert Lopresti, 45, with requiring a person to perform forced labour. Sam Lopresti was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<br />
The family have run an ice cream business in the Bristol area for over 50 years. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_LOPRESTI_COURT_181102_SCH_08.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2018. Bristol, UK. ROBERT LOPRESTI leaves Bristol Crown Court on the first day of legal proceedings, charged with offences relating to modern slavery. Avon and Somerset Police have charged Salvatore ‘Sam’ Lopresti, 74, and Robert Lopresti, 45, with requiring a person to perform forced labour. Sam Lopresti was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<br />
The family have run an ice cream business in the Bristol area for over 50 years. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_LOPRESTI_COURT_181102_SCH_07.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2018. Bristol, UK. ROBERT LOPRESTI leaves Bristol Crown Court on the first day of legal proceedings, charged with offences relating to modern slavery. Avon and Somerset Police have charged Salvatore ‘Sam’ Lopresti, 74, and Robert Lopresti, 45, with requiring a person to perform forced labour. Sam Lopresti was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<br />
The family have run an ice cream business in the Bristol area for over 50 years. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_LOPRESTI_COURT_181102_SCH_01.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 12/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Views of the University of Bristol's Wills Memorial Building. The University of Bristol is considering changing the names of some of its buildings including the Wills tower in response to the Black Lives Matters campaign and concern over links to slavery. In an email to students yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice-Chancellor said the University is determined to become an anti-racist organisation, and that the University recognises how money from the transatlantic slave trade indirectly benefitted the University through philanthropic donations including from the Wills family who made money from the tobacco industry which had links to slavery. The University will review the names of buildings such as the Wills Memorial Building, Wills Hall for student accommodation and the Colston Street student accommodation. It also promises to review the University’s logo, which carries links to the slave trade. At a Black Lives Matter protest the previous Sunday the statue of slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down with ropes and thrown in Bristol Docks by protesters during the BLM rally and march through the city centre in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
    LNP_UNIVERSITY_OF_BRISTOL_200612_SCH...jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 12/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Views of the University of Bristol's Wills Memorial Building. The University of Bristol is considering changing the names of some of its buildings including the Wills tower in response to the Black Lives Matters campaign and concern over links to slavery. In an email to students yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice-Chancellor said the University is determined to become an anti-racist organisation, and that the University recognises how money from the transatlantic slave trade indirectly benefitted the University through philanthropic donations including from the Wills family who made money from the tobacco industry which had links to slavery. The University will review the names of buildings such as the Wills Memorial Building, Wills Hall for student accommodation and the Colston Street student accommodation. It also promises to review the University’s logo, which carries links to the slave trade. At a Black Lives Matter protest the previous Sunday the statue of slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down with ropes and thrown in Bristol Docks by protesters during the BLM rally and march through the city centre in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
    LNP_UNIVERSITY_OF_BRISTOL_200612_SCH...jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/06/2020. London, UK.  Workmen board up the statue of Thomas Guy at Guys And St Thomas’s Hospital Trust after pressure from anti-racist groups recognise the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery. In London, Britain, Jun 12, 2020. In a statement, the hospital trust had recognised the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery of Thomas Guy. Photo credit: Ray Tang/LNP
    LNP_RTG_THOMAS_GUY_STATUE_09.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2018. Bristol, UK. SALVATORE LOPRESTI (in hat) leaves Bristol Crown Court on the first day of legal proceedings, charged with offences relating to modern slavery. Avon and Somerset Police have charged Salvatore ‘Sam’ Lopresti, 74, and Robert Lopresti, 45, with requiring a person to perform forced labour. Sam Lopresti was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<br />
The family have run an ice cream business in the Bristol area for over 50 years. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
    LNP_LOPRESTI_COURT_181102_SCH_15.jpg
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 12/06/2020; Bristol, UK. The City of Bristol Museum, next to the University of Bristol, with an inscription dedicated to the Wills family of tobacco industrialists. The University of Bristol is considering changing the names of some of its buildings including the Wills tower in response to the Black Lives Matters campaign and concern over links to slavery. In an email to students yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice-Chancellor said the University is determined to become an anti-racist organisation, and that the University recognises how money from the transatlantic slave trade indirectly benefitted the University through philanthropic donations including from the Wills family who made money from the tobacco industry which had links to slavery. The University will review the names of buildings such as the Wills Memorial Building, Wills Hall for student accommodation and the Colston Street student accommodation. It also promises to review the University’s logo, which carries links to the slave trade. At a Black Lives Matter protest the previous Sunday the statue of slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down with ropes and thrown in Bristol Docks by protesters during the BLM rally and march through the city centre in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 12/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Views of the University of Bristol's Wills Memorial Building. The University of Bristol is considering changing the names of some of its buildings including the Wills tower in response to the Black Lives Matters campaign and concern over links to slavery. In an email to students yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice-Chancellor said the University is determined to become an anti-racist organisation, and that the University recognises how money from the transatlantic slave trade indirectly benefitted the University through philanthropic donations including from the Wills family who made money from the tobacco industry which had links to slavery. The University will review the names of buildings such as the Wills Memorial Building, Wills Hall for student accommodation and the Colston Street student accommodation. It also promises to review the University’s logo, which carries links to the slave trade. At a Black Lives Matter protest the previous Sunday the statue of slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down with ropes and thrown in Bristol Docks by protesters during the BLM rally and march through the city centre in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 12/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Views of the University of Bristol's Wills Memorial Building. The University of Bristol is considering changing the names of some of its buildings including the Wills tower in response to the Black Lives Matters campaign and concern over links to slavery. In an email to students yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice-Chancellor said the University is determined to become an anti-racist organisation, and that the University recognises how money from the transatlantic slave trade indirectly benefitted the University through philanthropic donations including from the Wills family who made money from the tobacco industry which had links to slavery. The University will review the names of buildings such as the Wills Memorial Building, Wills Hall for student accommodation and the Colston Street student accommodation. It also promises to review the University’s logo, which carries links to the slave trade. At a Black Lives Matter protest the previous Sunday the statue of slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down with ropes and thrown in Bristol Docks by protesters during the BLM rally and march through the city centre in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/06/2020. London, UK.  Workmen board up the statue of Thomas Guy at Guys And St Thomas’s Hospital Trust after pressure from anti-racist groups recognise the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery. In London, Britain, Jun 12, 2020. In a statement, the hospital trust had recognised the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery of Thomas Guy. Photo credit: Ray Tang/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/06/2020. London, UK.  Workmen board up the statue of Thomas Guy at Guys And St Thomas’s Hospital Trust after pressure from anti-racist groups recognise the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery. In London, Britain, Jun 12, 2020. In a statement, the hospital trust had recognised the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery of Thomas Guy. Photo credit: Ray Tang/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/06/2020. London, UK.  Workmen board up the statue of Thomas Guy at Guys And St Thomas’s Hospital Trust after pressure from anti-racist groups recognise the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery. In London, Britain, Jun 12, 2020. In a statement, the hospital trust had recognised the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery of Thomas Guy. Photo credit: Ray Tang/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/06/2020. London, UK.  Workmen board up the statue of Thomas Guy at Guys And St Thomas’s Hospital Trust after pressure from anti-racist groups recognise the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery. In London, Britain, Jun 12, 2020. In a statement, the hospital trust had recognised the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery of Thomas Guy. Photo credit: Ray Tang/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/06/2020. London, UK.  Workmen board up the statue of Thomas Guy at Guys And St Thomas’s Hospital Trust after pressure from anti-racist groups recognise the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery. In London, Britain, Jun 12, 2020. In a statement, the hospital trust had recognised the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery of Thomas Guy. Photo credit: Ray Tang/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2018. Bristol, UK. SALVATORE LOPRESTI (in hat) leaves Bristol Crown Court on the first day of legal proceedings, charged with offences relating to modern slavery. Avon and Somerset Police have charged Salvatore ‘Sam’ Lopresti, 74, and Robert Lopresti, 45, with requiring a person to perform forced labour. Sam Lopresti was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<br />
The family have run an ice cream business in the Bristol area for over 50 years. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2018. Bristol, UK. ROBERT LOPRESTI leaves Bristol Crown Court on the first day of legal proceedings, charged with offences relating to modern slavery. Avon and Somerset Police have charged Salvatore ‘Sam’ Lopresti, 74, and Robert Lopresti, 45, with requiring a person to perform forced labour. Sam Lopresti was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<br />
The family have run an ice cream business in the Bristol area for over 50 years. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 12/06/2020; Bristol, UK. The City of Bristol Museum, next to the University of Bristol, with an inscription dedicated to the Wills family of tobacco industrialists. The University of Bristol is considering changing the names of some of its buildings including the Wills tower in response to the Black Lives Matters campaign and concern over links to slavery. In an email to students yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice-Chancellor said the University is determined to become an anti-racist organisation, and that the University recognises how money from the transatlantic slave trade indirectly benefitted the University through philanthropic donations including from the Wills family who made money from the tobacco industry which had links to slavery. The University will review the names of buildings such as the Wills Memorial Building, Wills Hall for student accommodation and the Colston Street student accommodation. It also promises to review the University’s logo, which carries links to the slave trade. At a Black Lives Matter protest the previous Sunday the statue of slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down with ropes and thrown in Bristol Docks by protesters during the BLM rally and march through the city centre in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/06/2020. London, UK.  Workmen board up the statue of Thomas Guy at Guys And St Thomas’s Hospital Trust after pressure from anti-racist groups recognise the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery. In London, Britain, Jun 12, 2020. In a statement, the hospital trust had recognised the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery of Thomas Guy. Photo credit: Ray Tang/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 12/06/2020. London, UK.  Workmen board up the statue of Thomas Guy at Guys And St Thomas’s Hospital Trust after pressure from anti-racist groups recognise the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery. In London, Britain, Jun 12, 2020. In a statement, the hospital trust had recognised the legacy of colonialism, racism and slavery of Thomas Guy. Photo credit: Ray Tang/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/11/2018. Bristol, UK. ROBERT LOPRESTI leaves Bristol Crown Court on the first day of legal proceedings, charged with offences relating to modern slavery. Avon and Somerset Police have charged Salvatore ‘Sam’ Lopresti, 74, and Robert Lopresti, 45, with requiring a person to perform forced labour. Sam Lopresti was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<br />
The family have run an ice cream business in the Bristol area for over 50 years. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 12/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Views of the University of Bristol's Wills Memorial Building. The University of Bristol is considering changing the names of some of its buildings including the Wills tower in response to the Black Lives Matters campaign and concern over links to slavery. In an email to students yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice-Chancellor said the University is determined to become an anti-racist organisation, and that the University recognises how money from the transatlantic slave trade indirectly benefitted the University through philanthropic donations including from the Wills family who made money from the tobacco industry which had links to slavery. The University will review the names of buildings such as the Wills Memorial Building, Wills Hall for student accommodation and the Colston Street student accommodation. It also promises to review the University’s logo, which carries links to the slave trade. At a Black Lives Matter protest the previous Sunday the statue of slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down with ropes and thrown in Bristol Docks by protesters during the BLM rally and march through the city centre in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/03/2015. London, UK. Domestic workers from Justice 4 Domestic Workers (J4DW) re-enact being suffragettes outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the quest for domestic worker equality on International Womens Day. The demonstration follows a recent House of Lords amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill which will, if made law, will allow migrant domestic workers to change employers once in the UK. The amendment will be heard by Members of Parliament (MP's) in the House of Commons within the next week for the third and final reading. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/03/2015. London, UK. Domestic workers from Justice 4 Domestic Workers (J4DW) re-enact being suffragettes outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the quest for domestic worker equality on International Womens Day. The demonstration follows a recent House of Lords amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill which will, if made law, will allow migrant domestic workers to change employers once in the UK. The amendment will be heard by Members of Parliament (MP's) in the House of Commons within the next week for the third and final reading. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/03/2015. London, UK. Domestic workers from Justice 4 Domestic Workers (J4DW) re-enact being suffragettes outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the quest for domestic worker equality on International Womens Day. The demonstration follows a recent House of Lords amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill which will, if made law, will allow migrant domestic workers to change employers once in the UK. The amendment will be heard by Members of Parliament (MP's) in the House of Commons within the next week for the third and final reading. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/03/2015. London, UK. Domestic workers from Justice 4 Domestic Workers (J4DW) re-enact being suffragettes outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the quest for domestic worker equality on International Womens Day. The demonstration follows a recent House of Lords amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill which will, if made law, will allow migrant domestic workers to change employers once in the UK. The amendment will be heard by Members of Parliament (MP's) in the House of Commons within the next week for the third and final reading. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/03/2015. London, UK. Domestic workers from Justice 4 Domestic Workers (J4DW) re-enact being suffragettes outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the quest for domestic worker equality on International Womens Day. The demonstration follows a recent House of Lords amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill which will, if made law, will allow migrant domestic workers to change employers once in the UK. The amendment will be heard by Members of Parliament (MP's) in the House of Commons within the next week for the third and final reading. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/03/2015. London, UK. Domestic workers from Justice 4 Domestic Workers (J4DW) re-enact being suffragettes outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the quest for domestic worker equality on International Womens Day. The demonstration follows a recent House of Lords amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill which will, if made law, will allow migrant domestic workers to change employers once in the UK. The amendment will be heard by Members of Parliament (MP's) in the House of Commons within the next week for the third and final reading. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/03/2015. London, UK. Domestic workers from Justice 4 Domestic Workers (J4DW) re-enact being suffragettes outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the quest for domestic worker equality on International Womens Day. The demonstration follows a recent House of Lords amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill which will, if made law, will allow migrant domestic workers to change employers once in the UK. The amendment will be heard by Members of Parliament (MP's) in the House of Commons within the next week for the third and final reading. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/03/2015. London, UK. Domestic workers from Justice 4 Domestic Workers (J4DW) re-enact being suffragettes outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the quest for domestic worker equality on International Womens Day. The demonstration follows a recent House of Lords amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill which will, if made law, will allow migrant domestic workers to change employers once in the UK. The amendment will be heard by Members of Parliament (MP's) in the House of Commons within the next week for the third and final reading. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/03/2015. London, UK. Domestic workers from Justice 4 Domestic Workers (J4DW) re-enact being suffragettes outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the quest for domestic worker equality on International Womens Day. The demonstration follows a recent House of Lords amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill which will, if made law, will allow migrant domestic workers to change employers once in the UK. The amendment will be heard by Members of Parliament (MP's) in the House of Commons within the next week for the third and final reading. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/03/2015. London, UK. Domestic workers from Justice 4 Domestic Workers (J4DW) re-enact being suffragettes outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the quest for domestic worker equality on International Womens Day. The demonstration follows a recent House of Lords amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill which will, if made law, will allow migrant domestic workers to change employers once in the UK. The amendment will be heard by Members of Parliament (MP's) in the House of Commons within the next week for the third and final reading. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/03/2015. London, UK. Domestic workers from Justice 4 Domestic Workers (J4DW) re-enact being suffragettes outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the quest for domestic worker equality on International Womens Day. The demonstration follows a recent House of Lords amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill which will, if made law, will allow migrant domestic workers to change employers once in the UK. The amendment will be heard by Members of Parliament (MP's) in the House of Commons within the next week for the third and final reading. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 08/03/2015. London, UK. Domestic workers from Justice 4 Domestic Workers (J4DW) re-enact being suffragettes outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the quest for domestic worker equality on International Womens Day. The demonstration follows a recent House of Lords amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill which will, if made law, will allow migrant domestic workers to change employers once in the UK. The amendment will be heard by Members of Parliament (MP's) in the House of Commons within the next week for the third and final reading. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. A girl prepares to take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. Girls prepare to take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. People take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. People take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. Women prepare to take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. People take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. People take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. People prepare to take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. People prepare to take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. People prepare to take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. Girls prepare to take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. Girls prepare to take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. People prepare to take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. People prepare to take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 14/10/2107. London, UK. People prepare to take part in the "The Walk For Freedom", marching around the capital demonstrating against modern slavery.  The protest is co-ordinated with other walks which abolitionist group A21 is staging in 400 cities around the world on the same day. The facemasks represents the silence of modern slaves. Photo credit : Stephen Chung/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; FILE PHOTO dated 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Today, 23/09/2020 the Bristol Music Trust have announced the new name "Bristol Beacon" for the entertainment and music venue formerly called the Colston Hall which is currently undergoing a major refurbishment. The Trust said three years ago that they would change the name due to the long standing controversy of the Colston name, and in June the year signs and letters saying "Colston Hall" were removed from Bristol's largest music and entertainment venue over ongoing controversy with the name being associated with the 17th century slave trader Edward Colston. In 2017 Bristol Music Trust had said they would change the name when the hall was refurbished, but with continuing delays and the recent Black Lives Matters events the name removal has been brought forward, despite the new name not yet being announced. The name removal comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 16/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Bristol Cathedral has this week covered up the name of Edward Colston on the giant north window, the largest stained glass window in the cathedral and known as the "Colston window", in the ongoing controversy over the 17th century slave trader and philanthropist's place in Bristol's history and the many references to him in the city. The inscription that has been covered up read "To the Glory of God and in Memory of Edward Colston 1636 – 1721" The cathedral's action comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. References to Edward Colston have also been removed or covered up at St Mary Redcliffe church in Bristol. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. A new mystery statue of a caricature Englishman has been placed by the now empty Colston plinth seen in the background on the Monday morning after an “All Lives Matter” protest at the weekend to “defend the Cenotaph”. The grey statue shows a bald man resting in a wheelie bin with the words "Spoiler: St George was Turkish" on the front. He is holding a small globe in one hand and a mobile phone in the other hand with a screen showing the St George flag and words "England for the English". The character wears a string vest over a beer belly and looks over to where Colston’s statue was torn down from its plinth a week ago. The artist is not known but the statue looks similar to "Ruth", a character who appeared on Victoria Street in April 2018. This comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. File Picture dated 11/06/2020. Today, 15/06/2020, the signs and letters saying "Colston Hall" were removed from Bristol's largest music and entertainment venue over ongoing controversy with the name being associated with the 17th century slave trader Edward Colston. In 2017 Bristol Music Trust had said they would change the name when the hall was refurbished, but with continuing delays and the recent Black Lives Matters events the name removal has been brought forward, despite the new name not yet being announced. The name removal comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Signs and letters saying "Colston Hall" are removed from Bristol's largest music and entertainment venue over ongoing controversy with the name being associated with the 17th century slave trader Edward Colston. In 2017 Bristol Music Trust had said they would change the name when the hall was refurbished, but with continuing delays and the recent Black Lives Matters events the name removal has been brought forward, despite the new name not yet being announced. The name removal comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Signs and letters saying "Colston Hall" are removed from Bristol's largest music and entertainment venue over ongoing controversy with the name being associated with the 17th century slave trader Edward Colston. In 2017 Bristol Music Trust had said they would change the name when the hall was refurbished, but with continuing delays and the recent Black Lives Matters events the name removal has been brought forward, despite the new name not yet being announced. The name removal comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Signs and letters saying "Colston Hall" are removed from Bristol's largest music and entertainment venue over ongoing controversy with the name being associated with the 17th century slave trader Edward Colston. In 2017 Bristol Music Trust had said they would change the name when the hall was refurbished, but with continuing delays and the recent Black Lives Matters events the name removal has been brought forward, despite the new name not yet being announced. The name removal comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures . 06/05/2014 . Piccadilly Gardens , Manchester , UK . Demonstration to highlight the plight of over 200 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Islamist Extremist group Boko Haram as today the group's leader , Abubakar Shekau , has said he will sell the girls in to slavery . Photo credit : Joel Goodman/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 09/02/2021; Bristol, UK. Hundreds of 'love locks', padlocks with names or initials written on them which are meant to symbolise love and have appeared on bridges in major towns and cities across Europe, are seen fixed to Pero's Bridge which spans part of Bristol Harbourside. Alex Hartley, a Lib Dem candidate for the nearby ward of Hotwells and Harbourside, has started a petition for the locks to be cut from the bridge, which intended to be a memorial to the victims of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 09/02/2021; Bristol, UK. Hundreds of 'love locks', padlocks with names or initials written on them which are meant to symbolise love and have appeared on bridges in major towns and cities across Europe, are seen fixed to Pero's Bridge which spans part of Bristol Harbourside. Alex Hartley, a Lib Dem candidate for the nearby ward of Hotwells and Harbourside, has started a petition for the locks to be cut from the bridge, which intended to be a memorial to the victims of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 09/02/2021; Bristol, UK. Hundreds of 'love locks', padlocks with names or initials written on them which are meant to symbolise love and have appeared on bridges in major towns and cities across Europe, are seen fixed to Pero's Bridge which spans part of Bristol Harbourside. Alex Hartley, a Lib Dem candidate for the nearby ward of Hotwells and Harbourside, has started a petition for the locks to be cut from the bridge, which intended to be a memorial to the victims of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; FILE PHOTO dated 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Today, 23/09/2020 the Bristol Music Trust have announced the new name "Bristol Beacon" for the entertainment and music venue formerly called the Colston Hall which is currently undergoing a major refurbishment. The Trust said three years ago that they would change the name due to the long standing controversy of the Colston name, and in June the year signs and letters saying "Colston Hall" were removed from Bristol's largest music and entertainment venue over ongoing controversy with the name being associated with the 17th century slave trader Edward Colston. In 2017 Bristol Music Trust had said they would change the name when the hall was refurbished, but with continuing delays and the recent Black Lives Matters events the name removal has been brought forward, despite the new name not yet being announced. The name removal comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; FILE PHOTO dated 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Today, 23/09/2020 the Bristol Music Trust have announced the new name "Bristol Beacon" for the entertainment and music venue formerly called the Colston Hall which is currently undergoing a major refurbishment. The Trust said three years ago that they would change the name due to the long standing controversy of the Colston name, and in June the year signs and letters saying "Colston Hall" were removed from Bristol's largest music and entertainment venue over ongoing controversy with the name being associated with the 17th century slave trader Edward Colston. In 2017 Bristol Music Trust had said they would change the name when the hall was refurbished, but with continuing delays and the recent Black Lives Matters events the name removal has been brought forward, despite the new name not yet being announced. The name removal comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. A new mystery statue of a caricature Englishman has been placed by the now empty Colston plinth seen in the background on the Monday morning after an “All Lives Matter” protest at the weekend to “defend the Cenotaph”. The grey statue shows a bald man resting in a wheelie bin with the words "Spoiler: St George was Turkish" on the front. He is holding a small globe in one hand and a mobile phone in the other hand with a screen showing the St George flag and words "England for the English". The character wears a string vest over a beer belly and looks over to where Colston’s statue was torn down from its plinth a week ago. The artist is not known but the statue looks similar to "Ruth", a character who appeared on Victoria Street in April 2018. This comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. People view and photograph a new mystery statue of a caricature Englishman has been placed by the now empty Colston plinth on Monday morning, following an “All Lives Matter” protest at the weekend to “defend the Cenotaph”. The grey statue shows a bald man resting in a wheelie bin with the words "Spoiler: St George was Turkish" on the front. He is holding a small globe in one hand and a mobile phone in the other hand with a screen showing the St George flag and words "England for the English". The character wears a string vest over a beer belly and looks over to where Colston’s statue was torn down from its plinth a week ago. The artist is not known but the statue looks similar to "Ruth", a character who appeared on Victoria Street in April 2018. This comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. People view and photograph a new mystery statue of a caricature Englishman has been placed by the now empty Colston plinth on Monday morning, following an “All Lives Matter” protest at the weekend to “defend the Cenotaph”. The grey statue shows a bald man resting in a wheelie bin with the words "Spoiler: St George was Turkish" on the front. He is holding a small globe in one hand and a mobile phone in the other hand with a screen showing the St George flag and words "England for the English". The character wears a string vest over a beer belly and looks over to where Colston’s statue was torn down from its plinth a week ago. The artist is not known but the statue looks similar to "Ruth", a character who appeared on Victoria Street in April 2018. This comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Signs and letters saying "Colston Hall" are removed from Bristol's largest music and entertainment venue over ongoing controversy with the name being associated with the 17th century slave trader Edward Colston. In 2017 Bristol Music Trust had said they would change the name when the hall was refurbished, but with continuing delays and the recent Black Lives Matters events the name removal has been brought forward, despite the new name not yet being announced. The name removal comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures . 06/05/2014 . Piccadilly Gardens , Manchester , UK . Demonstration to highlight the plight of over 200 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Islamist Extremist group Boko Haram as today the group's leader , Abubakar Shekau , has said he will sell the girls in to slavery . Photo credit : Joel Goodman/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures . 06/05/2014 . Piccadilly Gardens , Manchester , UK . Demonstration to highlight the plight of over 200 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Islamist Extremist group Boko Haram as today the group's leader , Abubakar Shekau , has said he will sell the girls in to slavery . Photo credit : Joel Goodman/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures . 06/05/2014 . Piccadilly Gardens , Manchester , UK . Demonstration to highlight the plight of over 200 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Islamist Extremist group Boko Haram as today the group's leader , Abubakar Shekau , has said he will sell the girls in to slavery . Photo credit : Joel Goodman/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 09/02/2021; Bristol, UK. Hundreds of 'love locks', padlocks with names or initials written on them which are meant to symbolise love and have appeared on bridges in major towns and cities across Europe, are seen fixed to Pero's Bridge which spans part of Bristol Harbourside. Alex Hartley, a Lib Dem candidate for the nearby ward of Hotwells and Harbourside, has started a petition for the locks to be cut from the bridge, which intended to be a memorial to the victims of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 09/02/2021; Bristol, UK. Hundreds of 'love locks', padlocks with names or initials written on them which are meant to symbolise love and have appeared on bridges in major towns and cities across Europe, are seen fixed to Pero's Bridge which spans part of Bristol Harbourside. Alex Hartley, a Lib Dem candidate for the nearby ward of Hotwells and Harbourside, has started a petition for the locks to be cut from the bridge, which intended to be a memorial to the victims of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 09/02/2021; Bristol, UK. Hundreds of 'love locks', padlocks with names or initials written on them which are meant to symbolise love and have appeared on bridges in major towns and cities across Europe, are seen fixed to Pero's Bridge which spans part of Bristol Harbourside. Alex Hartley, a Lib Dem candidate for the nearby ward of Hotwells and Harbourside, has started a petition for the locks to be cut from the bridge, which intended to be a memorial to the victims of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 09/02/2021; Bristol, UK. Hundreds of 'love locks', padlocks with names or initials written on them which are meant to symbolise love and have appeared on bridges in major towns and cities across Europe, are seen fixed to Pero's Bridge which spans part of Bristol Harbourside. Alex Hartley, a Lib Dem candidate for the nearby ward of Hotwells and Harbourside, has started a petition for the locks to be cut from the bridge, which intended to be a memorial to the victims of slavery. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 16/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Bristol Cathedral has this week covered up the name of Edward Colston on the giant north window, the largest stained glass window in the cathedral and known as the "Colston window", in the ongoing controversy over the 17th century slave trader and philanthropist's place in Bristol's history and the many references to him in the city. The inscription that has been covered up read "To the Glory of God and in Memory of Edward Colston 1636 – 1721" The cathedral's action comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. References to Edward Colston have also been removed or covered up at St Mary Redcliffe church in Bristol. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 16/06/2020; Bristol, UK. Bristol Cathedral has this week covered up the name of Edward Colston on the giant north window, the largest stained glass window in the cathedral and known as the "Colston window", in the ongoing controversy over the 17th century slave trader and philanthropist's place in Bristol's history and the many references to him in the city. The inscription that has been covered up read "To the Glory of God and in Memory of Edward Colston 1636 – 1721" The cathedral's action comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. References to Edward Colston have also been removed or covered up at St Mary Redcliffe church in Bristol. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. People view and photograph a new mystery statue of a caricature Englishman has been placed by the now empty Colston plinth on Monday morning, following an “All Lives Matter” protest at the weekend to “defend the Cenotaph”. The grey statue shows a bald man resting in a wheelie bin with the words "Spoiler: St George was Turkish" on the front. He is holding a small globe in one hand and a mobile phone in the other hand with a screen showing the St George flag and words "England for the English". The character wears a string vest over a beer belly and looks over to where Colston’s statue was torn down from its plinth a week ago. The artist is not known but the statue looks similar to "Ruth", a character who appeared on Victoria Street in April 2018. This comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. A new mystery statue of a caricature Englishman has been placed by the now empty Colston plinth on Monday morning, following an “All Lives Matter” protest at the weekend to “defend the Cenotaph”. The grey statue shows a bald man resting in a wheelie bin with the words "Spoiler: St George was Turkish" on the front. He is holding a small globe in one hand and a mobile phone in the other hand with a screen showing the St George flag and words "England for the English". The character wears a string vest over a beer belly and looks over to where Colston’s statue was torn down from its plinth a week ago. The artist is not known but the statue looks similar to "Ruth", a character who appeared on Victoria Street in April 2018. This comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures; 15/06/2020; Bristol, UK. People view and photograph a new mystery statue of a caricature Englishman has been placed by the now empty Colston plinth on Monday morning, following an “All Lives Matter” protest at the weekend to “defend the Cenotaph”. The grey statue shows a bald man resting in a wheelie bin with the words "Spoiler: St George was Turkish" on the front. He is holding a small globe in one hand and a mobile phone in the other hand with a screen showing the St George flag and words "England for the English". The character wears a string vest over a beer belly and looks over to where Colston’s statue was torn down from its plinth a week ago. The artist is not known but the statue looks similar to "Ruth", a character who appeared on Victoria Street in April 2018. This comes just over a week after the statue of Edward Colston which has stood in Bristol city centre for over 100 years was pulled down by protestors and thrown in Bristol Docks during a Black Lives Matters rally and march through the city centre. The rally was held in memory of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis in the US by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. The killing of George Floyd has seen widespread protests in the US, the UK and other countries against both modern day racism and historical legacies of slavery. Edward Colston (1636 – 1721) was a wealthy Bristol-born English merchant involved in the slave trade, a Member of Parliament and a philanthropist. He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere, and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, streets, three schools and the Colston bun. Photo credit: Simon Chapman/LNP.
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