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  • 5 Feb 2013
    Quinton trio punished for £1,000 graffiti spree on Birmingham buses
    Three men have been sentenced for their parts in a spate of graffiti attacks on buses in Birmingham.
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  • 1 Feb 2013
    Welsh castle graffiti mystery solved after more than 100 years
    It was a has been a mystery in Wales that has endured for more than 100 years as many tried and failed to decipher the words etched onto the window in a castle tower.
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  • 29 Jan 2013
    Teenage pair accused of racist graffiti spree
    TWO teenage women have been charged in connection with a spate of racist graffiti.
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  • 28 Jan 2013
    Hooligans halt train to cover it with graffiti
    Like something out of the Wild West, a gang of Moscow youngsters held up a suburban train, but rather than rob the passengers they tagged it with graffiti. Police say the commuter train made a regular stop at a station on its way to Moscow when seventy masked youngsters rushed inside eight cars and pulled the emergency brakes. The bandits spent twenty minutes spray painting the paralyzed train inside and out. “The passengers were afraid of them and chose just to sit and wait. When a train driver asked them what the heck they were doing, they impudently told him to be quiet,” witness Sergey Khnykin said. The vandals disappeared as quickly as they came, and well before the police arrived, leaving behind shocked passengers and frustrated railway staff. Russian Railroads estimates 17 thousand dollars in damage was done during the aerosol assault. The company says the annual damage from hooligans who break windows and scrawl graffiti on cars is around $2 million. Police have begun an investigation to uncover the culprits.
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  • 21 Dec 2012
    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
    MPE would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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  • 10 Dec 2012
    Judge praises graffiti artists – then jails them
    Three vandals who caused £150,000 damage to trains must go to prison, says judge – but they're talented
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  • 7 Dec 2012
    Graffiti goes mainstream
    Ten years ago, Moscow's graffiti artists operated mostly underground - and were often chased by police less than impressed with their paintings on fences and buildings. Most recently, however, graffiti has become more legitimate; even Mayor Sergei Sobyanin recently said that graffiti artists should be invited to paint the city's pedestrian underpasses.
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  • 5 Dec 2012
    Graffiti and 'ham cross' outside Muslim home in Bingham
    Offensive graffiti attacking Allah and Islam has been painted outside a Muslim family's home weeks after a cross wrapped in ham was left by their door.
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  • 25 Nov 2012
    Graffiti finds a new canvas in Paris
    French graffiti artists Astro Greg (L) and Alex Kanos developed a new technique called “CelloGraff,” which consists of painting on cellophane surfaces to invest new spaces without deteriorating the public space. — AFP
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  • 20 Nov 2012
    Myanmar welcomes Obama with graffiti and a shopping list Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Myanmar+welcomes+Obama+with+graffiti+shopping+list/7562948/story.html#ixzz2CkQgU48b
    A policeman watches a graffiti done by artist Arker Kyaw welcoming U.S. President Barack Obama in Yangon, Myanmar, at dawn on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. When Arker Kyaw heard Obama was coming to Myanmar, he gathered 15 cans of spray paint and headed for a blank brick wall under cover of darkness. Kyaw, whose passion is graffiti, labored from 3 am until the sun came up. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Myanmar+welcomes+Obama+with+graffiti+shopping+list/7562948/story.html#ixzz2CkQw2mbw
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  • 19 Nov 2012
    EDL leader arrested in connection with graffiti attacks on mosques and Sikh temples
    THE leader of the English Defence League (EDL) in Bristol has been arrested in connection with graffiti sprayed on mosques and Sikh temples.
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  • 18 Nov 2012
    Vandals keep graffiti enforcers busy
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  • 18 Nov 2012
    Vandals keep graffiti enforcers busy
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  • 14 Nov 2012
    New campaign to tackle graffiti
    BAHRAINIS living in villages and towns off the Budaiya highway will join forces to combat anti-government graffiti.
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  • 14 Nov 2012
    Graffiti: is it art or vandalism?Toronto sets up official panel and the wrangling starts over what to preserve
    Toronto sets up official panel and the wrangling starts over what to preserve
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  • 14 Nov 2012
    Graffiti Remover Allegedly Tagged Parks, Then Charged City for Cleanup Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/13/burbank-graffiti-removal-worker-tagged-parks-charged-city-for-cleanup/#ixzz2CAuFO2pv
    A graffiti-removal worker allegedly tried to create overtime pay for himself by creating his own art in Burbank, Calif. parks and later cleaning it up on the city’s tab. Now he’s been tagged with a court date — and no job. Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/13/burbank-graffiti-removal-worker-tagged-parks-charged-city-for-cleanup/#ixzz2CAuKbHg7
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  • 29 Oct 2012
    Jimmy the beast: Graffiti vandals target Savile's remote Highlands cottage days after police raid Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224672/Jimmy-Savile-The-Beast-Graffiti-vandals-target-paedophile-DJs-Highlands-cottage.html#ixzz2Ahiqe6r
    The remote white-washed property is thought to be where the disgraced TV presenter may have abused dozens of children over the decades 'Jimmy the beast' was written on the wall and the door was badly damaged Vandalism happened on Saturday night and was reported by passer-by Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224672/Jimmy-Savile-The-Beast-Graffiti-vandals-target-paedophile-DJs-Highlands-cottage.html#ixzz2AhivZCWd Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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  • 29 Oct 2012
    Dorking graffiti vandal hunted by police
    POLICE are hunting a prolific graffiti vandal who has left several "tags" around Dorking town centre.
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  • 26 Oct 2012
    News GOT A STORY? EMAIL: TALKBACK@THE-SUN.CO.UK Laughing all the way to the Banksy... graffiti artist's iconic rat artworks to sell for £190k Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4615697/banksy-iconic-rat-artworks-to-sell-for-190k.html#i
    BANKSY’S iconic rat artworks are set to sell for £190,000 at auction next month. Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4615697/banksy-iconic-rat-artworks-to-sell-for-190k.html#ixzz2AhjPTvS5
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  • 25 Oct 2012
    ‘Excrement graffiti’ in disabled toilet sparks DNA testing kit call
    The mayor of Swaffham has called for DNA testing kits to be used to catch toilet vandals after town centre facilities for people with disabilities were defaced with “excrement graffiti”.
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  • 23 Oct 2012
    Isle of Man police seek PC graffiti offender
    Police are investigating after offensive graffiti about the death of two police officers in Greater Manchester was daubed on a garage door.
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  • 18 Oct 2012
    Norbury graffiti vandal admits causing damage worth £54,000
    A GRAFFITI vandal caught with paint on his hands having just vandalised trains at Selhurst has been jailed.
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  • 18 Oct 2012
    Olympics graffiti artist Noir is jailed for tagging trains
    Artist had work featured in Games opening ceremony - Jailed for 16 months for damaging trains to tune of £32,000
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  • 11 Oct 2012
    Graffiti attack on house condemned as 'mindless'
    POLICE have slammed offenders who caused "mindless" damage to a house in Wincanton. Graffiti was painted on a wall of a house in Church Street between 10pm on Tuesday and 9am on Wednesday.
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  • 10 Oct 2012
    Nazi graffiti on village walls
    POLICE have launched an investigation after swastikas were daubed on a number of walls in a former mining village.
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  • 9 Oct 2012
    Man arrested over Rothko graffiti
    AFP - British police on Monday arrested a 26-year-old man suspected of defacing a mural by US artist Mark Rothko at London's Tate Modern gallery.
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  • 9 Oct 2012
    Drawn to revolution, graffiti artists keep spreading message in Egypt
    Graffiti has been among the most powerful art forms and tools of Egypt's revolution and the turbulent months since, but it also has proven to be its most vulnerable and ephemeral. Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Drawn+revolution+graffiti+artists+keep+spreading+message+Egypt/7361510/story.html#ixzz291YoRM00
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  • 27 Sep 2012
    Liberal Muslim columnist arrested for spray painting graffiti over anti-jihad NY subway ad
    An Egyptian-born U.S. columnist was arrested Tuesday for spray painting an advertisement equating Muslim radicals with savages at a New York City subway station. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208724/Mona-Eltahawy-Liberal-Muslim-Columnist-arrested-spray-painting-anti-jihad-NY-subway-ad.html#ixzz284teTyIv Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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  • 26 Sep 2012
    £300 bill to remove graffiti from Up Hatherley
    Cheltenham Borough Council's street cleaning team has hit the village to remove the unwanted vandalism in parks and roads.
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  • 25 Sep 2012
    Further success for Norwich graffiti campaign
    A project to crack down on graffiti in the city centre is having success in other parts of Norwich, it has emerged.
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  • 13 Feb 2012
    Homophobic graffiti man jailed in east London
    A man who daubed a housing block in London’s Shadwell with homophobic graffiti has been jailed for eight weeks.
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  • 10 Feb 2012
    Ulster town to offer graffiti and DJ classes
    Graffiti art and DJ-ing classes are the unlikely activities being used to bring young people together in one of Northern Ireland's most divided towns.
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  • 9 Feb 2012
    Graffiti duo used Facebook to brag about train vandalism
    A judge has suggested that two graffiti vandals who caused an estimated £14,000 in damage to trains and trackside equipment across West Yorkshire should be made to clean up similar anti-social behaviour as part of their community payback work.
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  • 7 Feb 2012
    Graffiti artist paid in Facebook shares instead of cash in line for £126m flotation windfall Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2012/02/03/graffiti-artist-paid-in-facebook-shares-instead-of-cash-in-line-for-126m-flotation-windfall-115875-
    A graffiti artist hired by Facebook seven years ago is set to pocket £126million – after he opted to be paid in shares rather than cash. Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2012/02/03/graffiti-artist-paid-in-facebook-shares-instead-of-cash-in-line-for-126m-flotation-windfall-115875-23733323/#ixzz1liwwuEPN
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  • 16 Jan 2012
    Teen 'graffiti artist' killed by train
    A teenager has been hit and killed by a train in a tunnel at Lewisham station, where police believe he was spraying graffiti with friends. Police were called to the station about 9.30pm yesterday, after reports a train driver had hit something. Officers found the body of an 18-year-old man in the tunnel of the West Street overpass. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/teen-graffiti-artist-killed-by-train-20120112-1pvyt.html#ixzz1jegkWnZK
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  • 16 Jan 2012
    Graffiti vandal jailed for 15 months after £100,000 rail and Tube damage
    Graffiti vandal Adam Clement who waged a £100,000 war on the rail and Tube network has been jailed for 15 months. Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/887555-graffiti-vandal-jailed-for-15-months-after-100-000-rail-and-tube-damage#ixzz1jehKQSj5
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  • 16 Jan 2012
    Bristol graffiti vandal jailed for a year Trusted article source icon
    A GRAFFITI vandal responsible for an estimated £1 million of damage across the city is behind bars after he finally ran out of second chances.
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  • 12 Dec 2011
    Graffiti damage by Zoro and Mash in Caterham
    Property in Caterham in Surrey has been damaged by a spate of recent graffiti.
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  • 29 Nov 2011
    Graffiti attack on former Burton Museum building
    A SPATE of graffiti attacks in Burton has left police and community leaders baffled.
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  • 29 Nov 2011
    Artists or vandals? Beirut’s graffiti writers flourish
    “It’s not like Europe or America,” says Opek. “There, graffiti is a rebellion. Here, there’s nothing to rebel against. I don’t like the Lebanese artists who try to mimic what’s happening in Europe and the States. It’s different here. Okay, you can go tag and ‘bomb,’ but there’s no one against you ... there’s no authority to challenge right now.”
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  • 28 Nov 2011
    Graffiti taggers are caught and fined
    TWO graffiti artists responsible for a “concerted campaign” of vandalism have been fined and ordered to pay compensation.
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  • 28 Nov 2011
    'Paint Straight' program has Brooklyn graffiti vandals turning in spray cans for brushes
    Teen taggers pushed to use their art skills legally
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  • 28 Nov 2011
    'Nomadic' graffiti vandal went on England rampage
    When Joseph Binney was seen on CCTV spraying his graffiti tag on railway arches in Leeds he had already caused thousands of pounds of damage across the rail network.
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  • 23 Nov 2011
    Graffiti as art in order-conscious Singapore
    Graffiti is seriously frowned upon in Singapore. Last year, a Swiss man was jailed and caned for vandalism after he spray-painted a subway train. But the perception in the city-state that graffiti is nothing more than vandalism by wayward youth is changing, thanks in part to art festivals like the one at the industrial estate, part of the Voilah! French Festival Singapore
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  • 23 Nov 2011
    ex Pistols graffiti is as important as prehistoric paintings
    COULD graffiti scrawled in a rented house in the 1970s be as important as prehistoric cave paintings? Well these caricatures were done by punk pioneers the Sex Pistols. Here a top archaeologist argues that they are a major historical find.
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  • 18 Nov 2011
    Norwich’s graffiti crackdown set to continue
    A concerted campaign to rid graffiti from the streets of Norwich is set to continue after the issue was made a policing priority for another three months.
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  • 18 Nov 2011
    Graffiti wall leads to a war of dirty words
    A GRAFFITI wall, built to encourage young people to practise legal graffiti has been plastered with rude comments about other teenagers.
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  • 18 Nov 2011
    Girl, 13, admits Porthmadog war memorial graffiti
    A 13-year-old girl has admitted daubing graffiti on the war memorial at Porthmadog, Gwynedd, in the days leading up to Remembrance Sunday.
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  • 8 Nov 2011
    Rudeness unearthed at palace
    LONDON: Rude graffiti by a workman at Kensington Palace has been uncovered after a century. A £12 million restoration project of the royal residence has discovered the culprit’s handiwork in pristine order, reports The Daily Telegraph. The message is neatly dated 1/2/1902 and reads: “Peter Jackson, The Champion F**ker!”
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  • 7 Nov 2011
    St Paul's Cathedral defaced with spray-painted '666' graffiti
    VANDALS have spray painted “666” on the side of St Paul’s. The “number of the beast” was daubed to the left of the cathedral’s main entrance, provoking outrage among worshippers and visitors.
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  • 7 Nov 2011
    Save our war memorials: tributes defaced with graffiti
    A war memorial unveiled by the mother of two brothers killed on the Western Front has been defaced with graffiti.
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  • 7 Nov 2011
    Restoration project discovers rude graffiti at Kensington Palace
    When a workman at Kensington Palace scrawled an obscene remark on a piece of concealed timber more than a century ago, he must have thought his crime would never be detected
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  • 7 Nov 2011
    Graffiti legend was also an NYPD cop
    Police have discovered the identity of one of New York City’s most prolific graffiti vandals -- and he’s one of their own.
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  • 24 Oct 2011
    Lincolnshire church graffiti images released
    Photographs of graffiti tags daubed in a Lincolnshire church have been released by police in a bid to catch the culprits.
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  • 20 Oct 2011
    Pioneer justice scheme is working in Norfolk
    Graffiti clean-up at Chapelfield. A graffiti offender cleans his and others work off the walls of the underpass at Chapelfield.
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  • 17 Oct 2011
    Two sought over Metro graffiti attacks
    DETECTIVES are trying to trace these men after a string of graffiti attacks on Metros. British Transport Police (BTP) have today issued CCTV images of two men they would like to speak to after a train was spray-painted at South Hylton.
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  • 17 Oct 2011
    Three pensioners and a dog help tackle street crime
    A band of pensioners and their elderly alsatian have become the latest group to tackle crime on Britain’s streets.
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  • 13 Oct 2011
    Tyersal and Brighouse duo facing prison over graffiti spree
    Two members of a graffiti crew that caused almost £25,000 damage to trains and Northern Rail property have been warned to expect custodial sentences.
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  • 13 Oct 2011
    Town council asked to consider graffiti wall for youth
    YOUNG people in Highworth could soon have a way of expressing themselves without vandalising property with a new graffiti wall.
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  • 13 Oct 2011
    Campaign to reduce anti-social behaviour under town scrutiny
    POLICe, firefighters and council officers will meet in Doncaster this morning to discuss how anti-social behaviour is being tackled in the town.
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  • 12 Oct 2011
    Leeds neighbourhood ‘sick’ of graffiti vandalism
    A new health centre was among several properties targeted in a fresh wave of vandal attacks. Police have condemned the graffiti artists who have left their mark on properties in and around Otley Road in Headingley.
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  • 10 Oct 2011
    New Malden mural to stop graffiti and ease crime vandalised
    A mural that was painted to stop graffiti and ease fear of crime has been vandalised.
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  • 10 Oct 2011
    Hartlepool mosque graffiti trio sentenced
    Two men who carried out a graffiti attack on a Teesside mosque have each been sentenced a year in prison.
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  • 10 Oct 2011
    Culture Art and design Banksy Banksy classic artwork defaced in Bristol as graffiti war re-erupts
    One of Banksy's most famous works has been defaced in what may be the latest episode of a long-running spat with a rival street artist.
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  • 3 Oct 2011
    Somerset town graffiti attacks ‘have nothing to do with Banksy’
    The boss of a West arts centre has criticised community leaders for blaming a spate of graffiti on renowned street artist Banksy. Houses, bridges, bins and even a war memorial have been defaced in Taunton in recent weeks. It led the town’s mayor Steve Brooks to link the attacks with Bristol-based Banksy, saying the popular artist had “a lot to answer for”.
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  • 3 Oct 2011
    Graffiti costs Boston Borough Council thousands
    An authority in Lincolnshire said a sudden spate of graffiti has cost it thousands of pounds.
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  • 3 Oct 2011
    Derry Bishop condemns Reverend David Latimer graffiti
    The Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry and Raphoe has condemned graffiti in Londonderry threatening a presbyterian minister.
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  • 26 Sep 2011
    Offenders volunteer for graffiti clean-up
    OFFENDERS ordered to carry out unpaid work for the community volunteered to turn up early to help tackle the recent graffiti problem in Taunton.
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  • 26 Sep 2011
    Investigation opened into racially aggravated criminal damage
    Thames Valley Police has opened an investigation into three acts of religiously aggravated criminal damage in and around two mosques in the city.
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  • 23 Sep 2011
    London graffiti vandal Zerx causes £1m damage
    Police in London are hunting a graffiti vandal who has caused more than £1m worth of damage by spray-painting a tag across buildings and the Tube network.
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  • 19 Sep 2011
    Banksy influence blamed by mayor for spate of graffiti in Taunton
    The mayor of a Somerset town has blamed the influence of street artist Banksy after graffiti vandals defaced a war memorial, houses, bins and a bridge.
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  • 16 Sep 2011
    Why Bristol is backing Banksy
    A call to list Banksy's works in the city has led to the usual critics' complaints. But Sewell et al can't stem graffiti's rising popularity
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  • 16 Sep 2011
    news - Literary Dinners Shop staff charged with selling spray cans to kids
    TWO shopworkers are facing criminal charges for selling spray paint to children amid a city-wide crackdown on graffiti. The staff, aged 28 and 32, are believed to be the first in Edinburgh to be caught under new antisocial behaviour laws forbidding the sale of spray cans to underage youths.
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  • 16 Sep 2011
    CCTV review after city centre graffiti attack
    A REVIEW into the use of Peterborough’s CCTV system is underway after a crime spree saw £10,000 worth of damage caused in one nigh
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  • 14 Sep 2011
    New Crime Force Takes Shape Across Five Counties
    Criminals in the East Midlands will feel five times the force with the creation of the country's largest crime fighting alliances.
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  • 14 Sep 2011
    Going underground once more
    Returning to work after a summer break is always tough. There's the mound of post to wade through and an inbox crammed with thousands of emails to check but when I arrived back in the office a couple of weeks ago I had a treat in store, as on my desk was a new book, Subway by Bruce Davidson.
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  • 13 Sep 2011
    Graffiti woman’s second rampage
    Samantha Moss went on the rampage in the city centre on Thursday causing thousands of pounds worth of damage
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  • 8 Sep 2011
    Scotland's graffiti castle stands for conservation debate
    A graffiti project on an old Scottish castle has become more popular than expected. Should it be removed for the sake of preserving the historic building?
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  • 3 Sep 2011
    Stockholm graffiti - beating the ban
    Behind the Stockholm council's draconian "zero tolerance" policy on graffiti is hidden a rich but underground Swedish graffiti culture, inspired by the scene in New York City, contributor Katherine Dunn discovers.
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  • 3 Sep 2011
    Opinion: Montreal needs to get smart on graffiti: here's how
    MONTREAL - Montreal is developing a double standard toward graffiti. Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Opinion+Montreal+needs+smart+graffiti+here/5348215/story.html#ixzz1Ws1NzbCz
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  • 1 Sep 2011
    Man admits Plymouth Hoe war memorial graffiti
    A man has admitted daubing graffiti on the base of a war memorial on Plymouth's seafront.
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  • 31 Aug 2011
    Colourful Kelburn Castle in Scotland
    The Earl of Glasgow, Patrick Boyle, and his son David, the Viscount Kelburn, pose for photographers as they look at graffiti paintings by Brazilian artists on the walls of Kelburn Castle near Largs, Scotland, August 30, 2011. Boyle, the owner of the castle, has written to Historic Scotland asking if the mural, which was completed by Brazilian graffiti artists in 2007, can be kept after the three-year time limit, which was put on the artwork by the local council, has expired. REUTERS/David Moir
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  • 28 Aug 2011
    Graffiti sprayed on Damien Hirst's Charity statue
    A 22ft (6.7m) high statue by Damien Hirst being displayed on a balcony in Bristol has been vandalised.
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  • 28 Aug 2011
    Castle graffiti should stay: Earl
    A peer has asked to keep a controversial graffiti mural on the walls of his family's 13th century castle. The Earl of Glasgow has written to Historic Scotland seeking guidance on whether the exhibit, which took 1500 cans of enamel auto spray paint to complete, might be allowed to remain as a permanent feature of Kelburn Castle, in Largs, Ayrshire
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  • 28 Aug 2011
    Banksy’s graffiti is part of the nation’s heritage and deserves protection by law, claim academics
    Murals by graffiti artist Banksy are so important that they should be considered part of Britain's heritage and given legal protection, academics have argued. Some of his work sells for hundreds of thousands of pounds and he has become a cult figure in the art world. However, there have been instances of his distinctive stencils being painted over by councils not realising its significance. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028715/Banksys-graffiti-art-protected-law-say-Bristol-academics.html#ixzz1WKGgyKrt
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  • 22 Aug 2011
    Youths made to remove Hunslet cemetery graffiti
    Five young people have been made to clean up a graveyard in Leeds after graffiti was found on headstones.
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  • 22 Aug 2011
    Classical music in Dartford tunnel stops vandalism
    Music played in a pedestrian tunnel has stopped any graffiti or anti-social behaviour, according to a Kent council.
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  • 18 Aug 2011
    Graffiti: Art or vandalism?
    From Banksy to Prime Ministers, the association with street art now attracts street cred. But has it really entered the mainstream or does it remain brazen vandalism? Alison Bellamy reports
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  • 15 Aug 2011
    Shepard Fairey beaten up after spat over controversial Danish mural
    Artist best known for the posters that helped elect Barack Obama is accused of peddling pro-government propaganda
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  • 15 Aug 2011
    Racist graffiti scratched on cars in Oxford
    Racist graffiti has been scrawled in permanent marker ink on buildings and scratched into cars in Oxford.
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  • 15 Aug 2011
    London launches Olympic clean up drive
    London will be swept in a two month clean up aimed at tidying the city ahead of the Olympics and removing potential fire sources.
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  • 11 Aug 2011
    Truth of Sheffield's 'I Love You Will U Marry Me' graffiti
    It has been part of Sheffield's skyline for more than 10 years.
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  • 11 Aug 2011
    Concern that graffiti art project may colour views
    A NEW project has come under fire for offering youngsters the chance to try their hand at graffiti in a Cowgate workshop rented from the city council. Social enterprise Spectrum Arts says the service will help disadvantaged young people, but concern has been raised that the project could be sending out the wrong message.
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  • 4 Aug 2011
    Teens charged over graffiti spree after schools tip-off
    TWO teenagers have been accused of spray painting 75 separate graffiti tags in a single night after going on a two-mile vandalism spree.
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  • 4 Aug 2011
    Graffiti issue needs to be tackled, says McNelis
    Graffiti can be an art form but it can also be plain vandalism, and where it is art it should be encouraged and where it is vandalism it should not be tolerated.
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  • 2 Aug 2011
    Microsoft can help expand and broaden your services
    Thanks to the scalability of Cloud Computing, Lewisham's novel approach to graffiti-reporting has quickly spread across London, says Sue Tabbitt.
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  • 2 Aug 2011
    Coventry postman daubed racist graffiti on Royal Mail posters
    A POSTMAN who daubed racist graffiti over posters in Royal Mail’s old Bishop Street sorting office in Coventry was caught after handwriting experts were called in. Read More http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2011/08/02/coventry-postman-daubed-racist-graffiti-on-royal-mail-posters-92746-29160810/#ixzz1Tr4G4ONR
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  • 2 Aug 2011
    Call for action over eyesore graffiti in Gloucester
    LOUTS are "dragging down" Gloucester by plastering buildings, walls and play areas in graffiti. In one shocking example, horrific graffiti is still turning heads one year after it was first plastered on brickwork in Kingsholm
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  • 1 Aug 2011
    “OZ,” Germany’s Unrepentant 61-Year-Old Graffiti Artist, Going Back To Jail
    Graffitist “OZ”, who's been tagging Hamburg buildings for two decades, was sentenced again Friday to 14 months for continuing to deface property. An underground hero to some, criminal vandal to others, the spray painter insists that not even jail time will stop him from challenging the “cleanliness Nazis”
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  • 1 Aug 2011
    “OZ,” Germany’s Unrepentant 61-Year-Old Graffiti Artist, Going Back To Jail
    Graffitist “OZ”, who's been tagging Hamburg buildings for two decades, was sentenced again Friday to 14 months for continuing to deface property. An underground hero to some, criminal vandal to others, the spray painter insists that not even jail time will stop him from challenging the “cleanliness Nazis”
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  • 29 Jul 2011
    Norwich bars’ support for graffiti campaign
    A campaign to rid the streets of Norwich of the blight of graffiti has been boosted by the generosity of revellers at two bars, who have helped raise money for paint.
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  • 29 Jul 2011
    Children in brush with the law in Chesterfield
    Police and young people have come together in Chesterfield to spruce up a youth shelter
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  • 28 Jul 2011
    KTM rail structures fall victim to graffiti
    SINGAPORE: Nearly a fortnight after the Malayan Railway (KTM) tracks were closed to the public, graffiti has been spotted on the bridges, tracks and sleepers. The vandals left their mark with correction fluid or used stones to scratch the surfaces.
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  • 27 Jul 2011
    Removing Avon Gorge graffiti 'could damage plants'
    Graffiti daubed on a cliff face in Bristol will probably be left on show because removing it could damage rare plant life.
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  • 27 Jul 2011
    Graffiti Artists Paint Problems for City Wallet
    Spray paint and marker pen covered walls - whether angering, artful, useless or comical - are still a common site on many of the capital's buildings, including those that are hundreds of years old.
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  • 26 Jul 2011
    UK Muslim Community Center Restores Whitewashed Artwork Mistaken for Graffiti
    Muslims from the new Muslim Cultural Center in Bristol have now begun work to restore a street painting by a major UK artist that they had mistakenly whitewashed over when they assumed ownership of the building.
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  • 25 Jul 2011
    Norwich’s Tombland gets graffiti clean-up
    A historic part of Norwich has been given a clean-up by volunteers as a campaign to rid the city from the blight of graffiti continues.
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  • 25 Jul 2011
    A working life: The graffiti artis
    Graffiti artist Olivier Roubieu may look like a gangsta with an airbrush gun but his commissions range from bank boardrooms to body painting
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  • 22 Jul 2011
    Bid to protect painted horses
    Another model horse, for use as a graffiti wall, is just one of the plans afoot to protect the town’s life-size painted artwork from further harm.
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  • 21 Jul 2011
    Teens clean up own graffiti
    THREE teens who covered a children’s play area in graffiti have been made to clean it up. The youths, aged 15, 16 and 18, caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage when they daubed terracotta paint on a children’s slide, swing and balance beam in a play area in Heath last month.
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  • 21 Jul 2011
    Norwich bars pledge support for graffiti campaign
    Revellers visiting two popular Norwich bars this weekend are going to be given the chance to help support a camhttp://mpei.se.miraculix.kontrollpanelen.se/admin/news/addpaign to rid the city’s streets of the blight of graffiti.
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  • 20 Jul 2011
    Banksy Graffiti To Get Listed Status In Bristol
    Steve Comer, a Liberal Democrat councillor from the Eastville ward in Bristol, is calling on local people to put together an official register of public artworks, after a 10-year-old Banksy mural ‘Gorilla in a Pink Mask’' was whitewashed over by mistake. The painting on the wall of a former social club had been a familiar landmark for over 10 years and was valued at over £100,000
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  • 19 Jul 2011
    Prolific graffiti vandal jailed for 27 months
    One of Britain's most notorious graffiti vandals who attacked railways and even a funeral home has been jailed for 27 months.
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  • 18 Jul 2011
    Railway graffiti trio to pay compensation
    Vandals who caused more than £8,000 of damage after leaving graffiti tags on trains have been sentenced.
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  • 18 Jul 2011
    Graffiti is not cool, it’s criminal damage
    TO most, graffiti is an eyesore – but for some, it remains a cool pasttime. That’s why Ann Nicholls, Worcester’s anti-social beha-viour detached youth worker, spends her time working with young people in and around the city to get them to realise graffiti is not cool.
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  • 18 Jul 2011
    Graffiti artist caught and told to remove tag as part of punishment
    A teenager from Midsomer Norton who caused thousands of pounds worth of damage by spray painting his graffiti 'tag' on shops, homes and buildings across Bath and North East Somerset ovehttp://mpei.se.miraculix.kontrollpanelen.se/admin/news/addr a number of years has been caught.
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  • 12 Jul 2011
    Vandals or artists? Those who graffiti Scotland's public spaces risk imprisonment and death
    THE thrown spray-can arcs through the air, turning end over end, a flash and blur in the Glasgow gloaming.
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  • 11 Jul 2011
    Vandals target award-winning Aberdeen park
    Toilets at Johnston Gardens were set alight and graffiti daubed across a shelter
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  • 8 Jul 2011
    Who, What, Why: How do you graffiti-proof public art?
    A landmark sculpture project is at risk because of spiralling costs - including the budget for keeping it graffiti-free. How do you protect public artworks from vandals?
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  • 8 Jul 2011
    Graffiti vandals strike again at pool just hours after clean-up
    VANDALS have daubed unsightly graffiti on Portishead Open Air Pool – just hours after volunteers had cleaned the last lot off.
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  • 8 Jul 2011
    Creggan community worker shocked by 'sinister' graffiti
    A Londonderry community worker has described graffiti written about him in the Creggan estate as "sinister and upsetting".
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  • 4 Jul 2011
    Toilet graffiti dauber - at the age of 62
    A MAN has been ordered to pay compensation after graffiting racist abuse on the doors of Hebden Bridge train station. James Allen, 62, of Wood Villas, Hebden Bridge, appeared unrepresented at Calderdale Magistrates’ Court.
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  • 4 Jul 2011
    Metro operator DB Regio loses £600,000
    RAIL bosses have held back more than half a million pounds from Metro's German operators following thousands of missed targets. Metro operator DB Regio Tyne and Wear has met most of the targets it was expected to on punctuality and station improvements, and scores well in customer satisfaction surveys, but still failed to meet all its targets
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  • 1 Jul 2011
    Mansfield war memorial targeted by vandals
    A 13-year-old girl is being questioned by police after a new Nottinghamshire war memorial was vandalised.
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  • 30 Jun 2011
    Toronto launches battle against graffiti
    TORONTO - The battle plan for Mayor Rob Ford’s war on graffiti got the green light Wednesday.
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  • 29 Jun 2011
    Vandal caught on CCTV spraying graffiti on Norwich pub
    The manager of a popular Norwich pub has hit out at the person responsible for daubing graffiti on its windows.
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  • 29 Jun 2011
    Three Nottingham men charged over anti-mosque graffiti
    Three men have been charged with hate crimes after graffiti was sprayed on the site of a proposed mosque.
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  • 29 Jun 2011
    Historic area of Norwich targeted in graffiti clean-up
    One of Norwich’s most historic quarters has undergone a major clean-up as part of an ongoing campaign to rid the city of the blight of graffiti.
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  • 28 Jun 2011
    Man sprays anti-mosque graffiti at West Bridgford site
    A 25-year-old English Defence League member has pleaded guilty to daubing racist graffiti on land being considered as a site for a mosque.
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  • 28 Jun 2011
    Fears over cuts to Birmigham City Council's graffiti strategy
    A HIGHLY successful city-wide anti-graffiti campaign which has cleaned up buildings and streets and seen 365 offenders arrested is under threat thanks to council cutbacks, it has been claimed. Read More http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2011/06/27/fears-over-cuts-to-birmigham-city-council-s-graffiti-strategy-97319-28945471/#ixzz1QXymhvOv
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  • 27 Jun 2011
    Graffiti scourge reaches way beyond Norwich city centre
    Dozens of volunteers have already joined forces with police as the war on graffiti in Norwich goes on, but tags are not just blighting lives in the city centre.
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  • 27 Jun 2011
    Banksy uses 'tag' of jailed graffiti artist Tox as latest artwork appears on London street
    There is known to be no honour amongst thieves - but does the same apply to graffiti artists? In the secretive world of street art it is hard enough to find out the protagonists' real names, let alone where they stand on social issues. And so Banksy's latest creation has provoked quite a debate - as to whether he is paying tribute to a fallen brother, or simply having a laugh at his expense.
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  • 23 Jun 2011
    Volunteers reclaim Norwich streets from graffiti vandals
    In the spitting rain volunteers put on their painting clothes, got out their paint brushes and rollers and set to work clearing graffiti blighting the city streets this evening.
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  • 23 Jun 2011
    Russian foreign ministry officially condemns graffiti painting on Red Army monument in Sofia
    The Russian foreign ministry has released an official statement condemning the graffiti painting on the Red Army monument in Sofia, which took place on June 18 2011, Dnevnik daily reported
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  • 22 Jun 2011
    Bulgarian Youth - Rolling with Time
    The colorful and ingenious graffiti artwork not only drew scores of Sofia residents and visitors wishing to take a look or a picture, but stirred a storm of controversy between those condemning it as vandalism and those admiring the talent of the artist and his brave civil position
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  • 21 Jun 2011
    Graffiti A Growing Problem In Lima
    Graffiti artists are becoming more of a nuisance in Lima. NBC Lima reports more and more incidents of buildings getting tagged with spray paint are being reported in the city.
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  • 21 Jun 2011
    CULTURAL VANDALISM IN SALFORD
    GRAFFITI PALACE DESTROYED Salford City Council officers and councillors with the imagination of tennis rackets have given the go ahead for the destruction of Salford's Graffiti Palace.
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  • 21 Jun 2011
    Colin Glen community 'appalled' by McKinstry graffiti
    Community representatives have condemned vandals who daubed graffiti on part of a £3.5m road scheme on the outskirts of Belfast.
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  • 20 Jun 2011
    Regional daily launches war on graffiti
    A daily newspaper in Norfolk is going all guns blazing in the fight against graffiti. The Norwich Evening News has launched Graffitibusters in conjunction with police and and other organisations in the city in a bid to scrub out graffiti for good.
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  • 20 Jun 2011
    Is graffiti art?
    To what extent can graffiti be considered art?Graffiti artists today express their thoughts in multi coloured displays on all surfaces around us. However one could claim that it is visually impairing and the laws against it are not strict enough, as people's properties are unwillingly defaced. Therefore to what extent can graffiti be considered art?
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  • 17 Jun 2011
    Tale of two graffiti artists - While Bansky basks in fame, tagger Daniel 'Tox' Halpin heads to prison
    NAMES changed to protect identities, this is the story of a man named Tox, who is facing a prison sentence for drawing on walls, and a man named Banksy, who has made a mint and enjoyed unprecedented adulation for, um, drawing on walls.
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  • 17 Jun 2011
    Head ‘confesses’ to painting graffiti at Roade School
    FINDING graffiti scrawled across the grounds of a secondary school is something that would send most headteachers on a rampage. But acting headteacher Tony Nelson, at Roade School and Sports College, had a surprise confession to make to shocked students left puzzled by the circular markings yesterday.
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  • 17 Jun 2011
    Graffiti vandal blamed for damage costing thousands
    Police in Bath are hunting for a graffiti artist believed to be responsible for tens of thousands of pounds of criminal damage. There have been as many as 70 to 80 so-called tags sprayed on sites around the city, with the word MOAK painted or scratched on to walls, bridges and even cash machines. The signature first appeared in November last year.
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  • 17 Jun 2011
    Aston Villa fans condemn anti-McLeish graffiti daubed on Villa Park
    VILLA fans have criticised the abusive anti-Alex McLeish graffiti scrawled onto the entrance to the club’s training ground. The words ‘Bluenose scum not welcome’ were thought to have been daubed onto the brick entrance to Bodymoor Heath in north Warwickshire in the early hours of yesterday morning
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  • 15 Jun 2011
    Volunteers needed to help combat graffiti problem
    People are urged to get involved in helping to clear up their local community as part of the Evening News’ Graffitibusters campaign.
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  • 15 Jun 2011
    Belfast: Catholic girls school vandalised
    The Police Service of Northern Ireland are investigating an act of sectarian vandalism at a Catholic girls school in Belfast. The Little Flower Secondary School was broken into in the early hours of last Wednesday, 8 June.
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  • 14 Jun 2011
    Anger as cost of vandalism repairs in Witney double
    THE cost of removing graffiti and repairing vandalism in Witney almost doubled in the last year. It cost Witney Town Council £9,964 in 2010/11, a rise from £5,260 the previous year, to put right damage to its property
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  • 14 Jun 2011
    Accrington teenager to face trial for graffiti
    A TEENAGE graffiti suspect has been ordered to stand trial for causing £100,000 of damage as a judge remarked: “It seems like scribble to me.” Ishak Hussain, 19, allegedly scrawled his tag ‘ENDA’ on numerous train carriages and property belonging to a football club in southeast London and Kent.
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  • 13 Jun 2011
    Will this be the end of Tox? Graffiti artist dubbed 'scourge of the underground' facing prison for scrawling simplistic tags across London Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000723/Tox-graffiti-artist-facing-prison-scrawling-simplistic-t
    One of Britain's most prolific graffiti vandals is finally behind bars today after being hailed an 'urban icon' for avoiding prison for so long. Daniel Halpin, 26, claims he can make £4,500 an hour selling pictures with his TOX 'tag.'
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  • 13 Jun 2011
    Two in court to deny Sp£nd graffiti tag
    TWO men have appeared in court to deny 23 counts of criminal damage in connection with the graffiti tag ‘SP£ND’.
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  • 13 Jun 2011
    Attack on Orange hall 'a bid to ramp up tension
    A sectarian attack on an Orange hall in Co Antrim has been branded an attempt to escalate tension during the marching season. Police are investigating after Dunloy Orange Hall was targeted in a paintbomb attack some time between Friday night and Saturday morning. It is understood the Station Road building was sprayed with graffiti. The Orange Order condemned the incident as an attack on "Protestant and Orange culture."
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  • 8 Jun 2011
    Ways in which Norwich has attempted to tackle graffiti menace
    On day three of the Evening News’ Graffitibusters campaign PETER WALSH looks at different attempts to tackle the issue in the city in the past.
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  • 8 Jun 2011
    Summertime Is Prime Time for Graffiti Vandalism
    Any cop will tell you; when the temperature rises, so does crime. And one crime that tends to increase during the summer months is graffiti vandalism.
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  • 8 Jun 2011
    Short jail sentence preferable to community service, say prisoners
    Report identifies differing approaches needed for first-time and repeat offenders
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  • 8 Jun 2011
    'Tox' graffiti artist convicted of criminal damage
    'King of taggers' Daniel Halpin remanded in custody after jury decides his ubiquitous Tox tag is vandalism
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  • 7 Jun 2011
    Masked man hunted after acid attack and 'Stalk someone else' graffiti at couple's home
    DNA and fingerprint tests are being carried on a rock that was thrown into a couple's apartment in a mysterious chemical attack on Friday morning. Police say the couple and the responding officer immediately became sick after the bizarre incident in upscale Laguna Beach, California. A hazardous materials unit was brought in to help clear the noxious chemical from the area.
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  • 1 Jun 2011
    ELAM distances itself from hate graffiti
    THE nationalist ELAM party has sought to distance itself from hate graffiti sprayed on the spot in Athens where a 44-year-old man was stabbed to death by migrants
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  • 31 May 2011
    Teachers asked to look out for graffiti tags in schoolbooks
    TEACHERS have been asked to look out for graffiti tags in children's schoolbooks following vandalism in Hildenborough. Extra police patrols have been called into the village after six weeks of damage in the area.
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  • 31 May 2011
    New campaign to clean up town
    A NEW campaign to help clean up Winsford’s litter problem has been backed by the town council. At the annual parish meeting on Monday, May 23, school children from across the town presented councillors with their thoughts on what could be done to help combat areas blighted by litter and graffiti.
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  • 26 May 2011
    Spanish protesters start Madrid clean-up
    Protesters camped out in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square have begun to voluntarily clean up shopfronts, removing graffiti and posters, after complaints that they were suffocating local businesses. Teams of rubber-gloved volunteers ripped down posters and tried to clean away or cover up graffiti after the demonstrators agreed to some of the proposals made by their "respect" committee.
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  • 26 May 2011
    Some of nation’s top monuments under threat from criminals
    HERITAGE chiefs have issued a stark warning that vandalism and rogue metal detecting are threatening the future of the nation’s most prized monuments. English Heritage revealed yesterday that it is having to contend with scores of cases of criminal damage annually at its sites across the country, costing thousands of pounds in repairs each year. Fears are growing that centuries-old monuments could be lost forever if offenders continue to target the sites in often remote parts of the country.
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  • 26 May 2011
    Rubbish – town hall’s response to clean-up
    Volunteers dumped 50 bags of rubbish outside Altrincham Town Hall in protest at the council. Organisers of the Big Spring Clean event spent hours litter picking and scrubbing graffiti in the town centre on Sunday, but were angry that the authority wouldn't send a lorry until Monday to collect the bags.
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  • 26 May 2011
    Graffiti vandals forced to paint over their 'tags' in Shirley
    IT’S a brush with the law that these graffiti vandals won’t forget in a hurry. The five youths – aged between 12 and 15 – were subjected to swift justice after they daubed “tags” on Instone Footwear shop on Stratford Road, Shirley. The first-time offenders, were ordered buy their own paint and cover over their vandalism while being supervised by police last on Sunday May 15. They had been caught spraying names on the side of the shop. Police issued the community punishment instead of pursuing the youths through the courts to cut red tape Read More http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2011/05/25/graffiti-vandals-forced-to-paint-over-their-tags-in-shirley-97319-28760094/#ixzz1NRERs7kH
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  • 26 May 2011
    Graffiti campaigns that stuck in the mind
    Years after a high-profile graffiti campaign proclaiming his innocence, George Davis has had his robbery conviction overturned. But his was not the only slogan to be sprayed across the UK's motorway and road bridges.
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  • 25 May 2011
    Beirut Graffiti
    One way to keep track of the shifts in belief and allegiance as you walk through Beirut is by watching the walls. In the backstreets of Gemmayzeh and Ashrafieh in the east of the city, they are covered in stencil graffiti for the right-wing, Christian Lebanese Forces Party:
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  • 24 May 2011
    Young graffiti artists turn Palm Court Hotel eyesore into work of art
    YOUNG graffiti artists have been brought in to brighten up the burned-out Palm Court Hotel on Torquay seafront. Youngsters joined a workshop to turn the eyesore hoardings around the demolished hotel into a colourful work of art for the summer season. The site has been a blot on the landscape since the hotel was destroyed in a major blaze just before Christmas
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  • 24 May 2011
    Spate of graffiti in Stourport
    THERE has been a spate of graffiti in Stourport.
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  • 24 May 2011
    Graffiti had it right - George Davis was innocent
    (Reuters) - George Davis, whose supporters famously dug up an Ashes Test cricket pitch in 1975 to try to get him freed from prison, finally won an appeal against his conviction Tuesday
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  • 23 May 2011
    The preoccupied graffiti artist
    Unlike the controversial graffiti artist Banksy who is so secretive about his appearance that he refused to attend this year’s Oscars undisguised, Chris de Souza Jensen is not protective of his identity despite the questionable legality of his work.
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  • 23 May 2011
    'Burka' covers bikini advert as firms urged to be more sensitive
    Thursday, May 19, 2011, 09:00Comment on this storyShare Bookmark with (what is social media?)Facebook Digg Reddit Delicious StumbleUpon 'Burka' covers bikini advert as firms urged to be more sensitive A BURKA has been painted over a model advertising a bikini on sale at a high street clothes store. The poster, displayed on a bus stop in Normanton, has been vandalised with black graffiti which leaves only the eyes of the female model uncovered
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  • 19 May 2011
    Welcome to Gloucester city of ruins - graffiti hits former Gloscat site
    GRAFFITI lambasting a city centre development has been scrawled across hoardings in the city centre. "Welcome to the city of ruins" and "Greed is killing this city" are among the angry words sprawled across boards surrounding the old Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology (Gloscat) site off Brunswick Road.
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  • 19 May 2011
    Graffiti by appointment
    THEY are incredible, larger than life, black and white paintings – and for some time now they have been mysteriously appearing on buildings across Sheffield. But these murals – about a dozen of them drawn up in incredible detail and depicting characters and creatures in an apparent fantasy world – are not the work of your average graffiti artist
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  • 18 May 2011
    The art of graffiti
    Graffiti has become more widely accepted as an art form due to artists such as Banksy, but the art of graffiti has been around for decades, on view for all eyes to see. Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/147087/20110517/graffitti-banksy-street-art.htm#ixzz1MfvNpGYq
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  • 16 May 2011
    WALTHAM FOREST: Guard may hold clues to graffiti gang
    POLICE are trying to trace a security guard who may hold vital evidence about a prolific graffiti gang.
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  • 16 May 2011
    Teenager who daubed symbol on walls and skate ramps is told to pay his debt to society
    A graffiti artist who went on a two-year rampage of spray-painting his ‘tag’ has been told he must pay his debt back to society
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  • 16 May 2011
    Plan ramps up for a graffiti wall at Stortford skate park
    GRAFFITI in Bishop’s Stortford could soon be a thing of the past as plans for a dedicated wall at the town’s skate park come closer to reality
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  • 13 May 2011
    Dumfries Civic Pride buy £5,000 graffiti removal machine thanks to DGHP funding
    A MISSION by Dumfries Civic Pride to remove unsightly graffiti in Nithsdale has been given a boost.
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  • 11 May 2011
    Werrington skate park plagued by graffiti and litter
    POLICE have upped patrols around a skate park after it was plagued by graffiti and litter for a second weekend in a row
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  • 11 May 2011
    An attack on Dorset's history
    VANDALS have daubed a historic Norman building in Christchurch with graffiti.
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  • 8 May 2011
    Yorkshire graffiti gang trio are jailed
    YORKSHIRE members of a graffiti gang which left a six-year £250,000 trail of destruction on trains as far away as Australia and the Far East, have been jailed.
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  • 4 May 2011
    Commuters 'helpless' after rail vandals escape justice in Coventry and Warwickshire
    JUST a handful of people have been charged with vandalising railway lines in Coventry and Warwickshire despite commuters enduring months of misery on delayed trains. Read More http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2011/05/03/commuters-helpless-after-rail-vandals-escape-justice-in-coventry-and-warwickshire-92746-28625662/#ixzz1LMdqO8Dt
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  • 4 May 2011
    Berlin Wall artists sue city in copyright controversy
    Renovation of Berlin's East Side Gallery to mark 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall leads to compensation claims
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  • 28 Apr 2011
    Huge bill to remove gum and graffiti in Aberdeen
    Almost £700,000 has been spent cleaning up graffiti and chewing gum from Aberdeen streets in just five years Read more: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/2240852?UserKey=#ixzz1KnSnbTDR
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  • 27 Apr 2011
    If you must spray, do a decent job
    There has been quite a bit of activity in Hong Kong since the arrest of artist Ai Weiwei several weeks ago.
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  • 27 Apr 2011
    Deepings: Help cops find graffiti vandals
    AN APPEAL for help in tracking down vandals has been issued by police after more than 100 incidents of graffiti in the last six months.
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  • 26 Apr 2011
    Rail operator gets go ahead for "graffiti database"
    Swedish rail operator SJ has been given clearance by the Swedish Data Inspection Board to open a graffiti database on order to assist police reports and damages claims
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  • 26 Apr 2011
    Mayor thanks graffiti-busters
    TWO Worcester schoolgirls who made it their mission to banish unsightly graffiti from their neighbourhood have been rewarded for their efforts.
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  • 26 Apr 2011
    Graffiti vandal caught after attacks in Allerton and Sandy Lane
    A prolific teenage graffiti artist carried out a two-year rampage daubing his ‘tag’ in parts of Bradford.
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  • 21 Apr 2011
    In pictures: Offenders clean up Eton graffiti arches
    Two graffiti-covered arches along Eton bridleway in Berkshire have been transformed after young offenders painted over tags as part of Community Payback - a project led by Thames Valley Probation Service and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
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  • 20 Apr 2011
    Graffiti vandal caught after attacks in Allerton and Sandy Lane
    A prolific teenage graffiti artist carried out a two-year rampage daubing his ‘tag’ in parts of Bradford.
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  • 18 Apr 2011
    Pair arrested in Londonderry over Kerr murder graffiti
    Two men have been arrested by police investigating graffiti about murdered police officer Ronan Kerr
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  • 18 Apr 2011
    Full frontal graffiti attack
    Graffiti removal costs UK Councils in excess of 1 billion pounds a year, and while some may call it an art form, it is seen generally to have a negative impact on communities and the environment. Local Authorities are judged by the amount of graffiti in neighbourhoods by the NI 195 Cleanliness Performance Indicator, which has been developed to measure the cleanliness of the local environment, as a member of the public would see it.
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  • 15 Apr 2011
    Chewing gum city putting off visitors’
    DISGUSTING pavements covered in chewing gum, cigarette ends and litter give an “appalling” impression of Cardiff to visitors, retailers and experts have said Read More http://www.walesonline.co.uk/cardiffonline/cardiff-news/2011/04/15/chewing-gum-city-putting-off-visitors-91466-28523748/#ixzz1Jab4E35U
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  • 14 Apr 2011
    Graffiti problems blighting Italian cities
    Italian councils are facing increasing incidents of graffiti and vandalism that are scarring the look of their cities.
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  • 13 Apr 2011
    Youngsters show pride in town annual clean-up
    A group of about 20 young people went out in a town centre to wash away graffiti and collect litter on the first day of a four-day clean-up
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  • 13 Apr 2011
    Mon Pupa à moi est un... graffeur
    Stéphane Pouzet est né à Marseille. Depuis quelques années, il s'est installé à Gannat. Cet artiste, mieux connu sous le pseudo Pupa Fuzz't, vit de sa passion : le graffiti artistique
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  • 13 Apr 2011
    How graffiti can poison our minds
    London - Graffiti, litter and broken windows don’t just look bad - they can have an ugly impact on people living nearby
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  • 12 Apr 2011
    Famous London film settings get the graffiti art treatment
    Portobello and Notting Hill have been the backdrop to some of British film's most famous scenes from Hugh Grant's bookshop to Michael Caine's flat in the Italian Job.
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  • 11 Apr 2011
    Ronan Kerr murder: Graffiti lauding bomb 'disgusting'
    Graffiti praising the murder of PSNI constable Ronan Kerr and threatening further attacks has been daubed on walls in Londonderry.
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  • 11 Apr 2011
    Rob Ford's war against graffiti
    Some people got a good laugh from the sight of Rob Ford blasting a graffiti-covered wall with a pressure washer this week. Sporting an old sweater and fishing boots, obviously relishing his work, he asked observing reporters to imagine the wall as a map of the city. “We’re going to go from one end to the other and we’re going to clean it up.” But wasn’t graffiti an art form, someone asked? “That’s not art,” snorted the mayor. “That’s graffiti. That’s nonsense.”
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  • 11 Apr 2011
    Graffiti yob's 182 crimes cost £17,000 to clear up
    A TEENAGE graffiti vandal who did more than £17,000 worth of damage to buildings across Bristol has been spared prison
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  • 8 Apr 2011
    How litter and graffiti can poison our minds by turning us more racist and homophobic
    Graffiti, litter and broken windows don’t just look bad – they can have an ugly impact on people living locally. Residents living in a litter-strewn environment can become more racist and homophobic as well as less charitable, scientists found
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  • 6 Apr 2011
    Three men in court over graffiti attack on Treasury
    THE granddaughter of a baronet appeared in court yesterday charged with daubing the Treasury with protest graffiti. Environmental activist Tamsin Omond, 26, was arrested on Budget Day for spraying a picture of the Chancellor with the words: “Dear George, WTF happened to GIB?”
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  • 5 Apr 2011
    Anti-reform graffiti raid on MPs HQ
    THE constituency offices of Health Secretary Andrew Lansley have been daubed with graffiti by anti-NHS reform activists.
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  • 1 Apr 2011
    Study urges rethink of how gangs are policed
    The police should rethink ‘outdated and stereotypical’ assumptions about the way gangs define their turf if they are to reduce crime, according to a new report by researchers from The University of Manchester.
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  • 31 Mar 2011
    Power cleaners target city streets
    PRIVATE cleaners armed with power-washers are taking to the streets of Dublin.
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  • 31 Mar 2011
    Hunt for Mill Hill station graffiti vandals
    MILL Hill train station, in Blackburn, is being targeted by graffiti artists daubing ‘tags’ on signs, shelters and benches.
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  • 31 Mar 2011
    Graffiti attack at park angers Watch group
    ANGRY residents have hit out at vandals who have smashed booze bottles and sprayed mysterious graffiti symbols at a Peterborough play park
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  • 30 Mar 2011
    Finnish man faces jail for graffiti spraying in Krakow old town
    WARSAW, Poland - A Finnish man faces a possible five years in prison on allegations he sprayed graffiti on walls in Krakow's old town, a UNESCO World Heritage site
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  • 29 Mar 2011
    Rail graffiti ‘artist’ gets 20 months
    A GRAFFITI ‘artist’ has been jailed for 20 months for causing £53,000 of damage by defacing Tube trains
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  • 28 Mar 2011
    Morning light shows London landmarks stained with graffiti
    Graffiti stains London's Trafalgar Square as cleaning teams get to work following violent anti-cuts protests on Saturday.
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  • 28 Mar 2011
    German woman devoted to removing Nazi graffitiMarlborough
    BERLIN (AP) — Irmela Mensah-Schramm stopped abruptly at the crudely sprayed swastika on the wall of a pedestrian underpass. Whipping out a can of spray paint from her cotton tote bag, she quickly made short work of it, turning the neo-Nazi symbol into a nondescript black splotch.
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  • 28 Mar 2011
    200 arrested as anarchists fight police after 500,000-strong anti-cuts march... and cover Trafalgar Square in graffiti
    Unions vow to continue protests despite violence Youths smash up the Ritz and invade Fortnums Police hold 200 protesters in custody More than 30 police officers injured in violent clashes Lightbulbs filled with ammonia hurled at officers Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370468/TUC-anti-cuts-march-200-arrested-protesters-cover-Trafalgar-Square-graffiti.html#ixzz1HqTtD3Sh
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  • 24 Mar 2011
    Mood of change grips Syrian protests
    Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this link to reference the article - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e46cbbf4-557b-11e0-a2b1-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1HV0c6ThI Every recent uprising in the Arab world has had some emotional trigger, a tragic death or the commemoration of a brutal incident. In the case of Syria, it was the painting of graffiti by a group of schoolchildren that sparked the wave of protests leading to the deaths of nine people over the past week and could turn into a revolt against the regime of president Bashar al-Assad
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  • 24 Mar 2011
    Concern over vandalism in Chediston Vale Park
    Students from a Nottingham school are concerned about the levels of vandalism and graffiti in a local park.
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  • 23 Mar 2011
    Syria's Revolt: How Graffiti Stirred an Uprising
    The words have been repeated from Tunisia to Egypt, from Yemen to Bahrain. "The people want the regime to fall" — the mantra of revolution. And so, last week, after 15 kids wrote those words on a wall in the agricultural town of Dara'a in southern Syria, the local governor decided to come down hard. The young people — all under 17 — were thrown in jail. The punishment stunned the town and, suddenly, Syria — so confidently authoritarian — got its first strong taste of rebellion in what is called the Arab Spring.
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  • 23 Mar 2011
    Graffiti vandals target Clifford's Tower in York
    Graffiti vandals have defaced Clifford's Tower in York, one of the city's most famous landmarks.
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  • 22 Mar 2011
    Graffiti: Vandalism or oppressed street art?
    Please respect FT.com's ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this link to reference the article - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fbd70352-535b-11e0-86e6-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1HJ2Ox4mn Barcelona welcomes all kinds of art lovers. While tourists will queue for hours for the Picasso Museum or endure the scorching summer sun to glance at the marvels of Gaudí’s architecture, those on a limited budget can simply stroll through the back streets and stumble upon the delights of the city’s disorderly street art.
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  • 22 Mar 2011
    Even trains aren’t safe from graffiti in Norwich
    The graffiti tag causing outrage around Norwich has struck again after a train carriage at Norwich rail station, pictured, has had the word “shook” scrawled on it
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  • 21 Mar 2011
    20 March 2011 Last updated at 13:26 GMT Share this pageFacebookTwitter ShareEmail Print Hull graffiti website captures offenders
    A website for reporting graffiti in Hull has helped identify youths responsible for criminal offences.
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  • 18 Mar 2011
    Guernsey south coast cliff face sprayed with graffiti
    Guernsey's environment minister has condemned the spraying of graffiti on to a 40 sq m area of cliff face on Guernsey's south coast.
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  • 18 Mar 2011
    Croydon is cleaner claims council
    More than 350 incidents of graffiti were cleaned off the borough’s walls in February according to council reports.
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  • 17 Mar 2011
    Jobless teens target litter and graffiti
    Graffiti and litter will be cleaned up by unemployed teenagers who join an innovative apprenticeship scheme.
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  • 17 Mar 2011
    Council under fire for providing children with free spray painting lessons
    A cash-strapped Tory council has provoked anger after it revealed plans to give children free spray painting lessons. Critics have branded the scheme, run by Havant Borough Council, a waste of money and said it looks 'dangerously close to training young vandals'
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  • 16 Mar 2011
    Libya: Muammar Graffiti
    Caricatures of Libyan leaders Muammar Gaddafi dot the walls of rebel strongholds in Benghazi. Like many dictators, Gaddafi was careful to control how his images was used in the country, and often ensured he was portrayed as a deity or beloved leader. With the uprising in Libya, though, anti-Gaddafi graffiti and caricatures have sprung up across cities such as Benghazi.
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  • 16 Mar 2011
    Graffiti vandal slapped with Asbo
    A TEENAGE graffiti vandal has been slapped with an Asbo after causing £3,000 damage to a train in Colchester.
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  • 14 Mar 2011
    London Probation Truss community payback scheme to daub anti-royal wedding graffiti on Tube station tunnels
    London - In a classic 'Romans Go Home' moment a gang of ex-cons has offered to daub London Tube tunnels with Fuck The Royal Wedding graffiti.
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  • 11 Mar 2011
    Residents' graffiti war continues
    CONCERNED councillors who want to paint out graffiti on the railway bridge in Birchington have been told not to because of "health and safety".
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  • 11 Mar 2011
    MAYOR LAUNCHES ASSAULT ON 'GRIME-CRIME' AHEAD OF OLYMPIC YEAR
    The following information was released by the office of the mayor of London: The Mayor today urged Londoners to help spruce up the capital by reporting 'grime-crime' such as graffiti, litter and fly-tipping using internet and mobile phone technology. The innovative system enables users to track progress of clean-ups whilst also delivering financial savings for boroughs.
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  • 10 Mar 2011
    Boris Johnson launches smartphone app to clean up London
    Boris Johnson demonstrated a smartphone app to help Londoners report litter and vandalism today, by cleaning graffiti off a wall in the capital.
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  • 8 Mar 2011
    Graffiti problem in Amesbury
    GRAFFITI has become a problem in Amesbury again since the half term holiday
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  • 7 Mar 2011
    Lennon graffiti daubed on chapel
    Graffiti threatening the life of Celtic boss Neil Lennon has been daubed on a chapel in east Belfast, in the wake of Wednesday's ill-tempered Old Firm clash.
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  • 7 Mar 2011
    Graffiti yobs ordered to clean up Kent village of Boughton following a campaign of vandalism in the place they live
    Two youths who admitted spraying unsightly graffiti in the vuillage of Boughton have joined a clean up operation
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  • 3 Mar 2011
    Keith Richards` daughter appears in court after graffiti and drugs arrest
    Here is the daughter of Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards leaving court in New York City. Model Theodora Richards, 25, was arraigned at Manhattan Criminal Court after being arrested in the fashionable SoHo neighbourhood on Tuesday night. She was arrested after allegedly spraying graffiti that read 'T-Heart-A' on a convent building. She also allegedly had marijuana and Xanax anxiety tablets on her
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  • 3 Mar 2011
    Jail opens doors on new life direction
    THE CITY: Three years after one of London’s most notorious taggers was arrested for vandalism, he’s off drugs, feeling positive and ready and eager to make contributions through his art
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  • 1 Mar 2011
    Three in court on graffiti charges
    Three people are due in court today charged with causing almost £40,000 of damage through graffiti
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  • 1 Mar 2011
    Erase the graffiti, Jake say Tockholes residents
    RESIDENTS in Tockholes are appealing for a graffiti artist to remove his etchings from a children’s playground
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  • 28 Feb 2011
    Will notorious graffiti artist 'Banksy' attend the Oscars
    LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A notorious graffiti artist whose illegal activity has been documented all over the world is up for an Oscar for Best Documentary. To some, graffiti can be a work of art. And the fine line between vandalism and genius is the premise of the documentary "Exit through the Gift Shop."
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  • 28 Feb 2011
    Graffiti condemned as ‘disgusting racism’
    LOCAL Alliance Party representatives have condemned vandals who painted a pro-Nazi slogan on a wall in Whiteabbey.
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  • 24 Feb 2011
    Grahame Park teenagers use clean graffiti in teambuilding project
    CLEAN graffiti came to the Grahame Park estate this week as youngsters got to try their hands at making a mural by clearing grime from walls.
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  • 24 Feb 2011
    Graffiti sparks anger
    PROPERTY owners have been left counting the cost after a wave of graffiti in Portishead
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  • 23 Feb 2011
    MTR Stockholm Wins "Communications and Mobility" European IT Excellence Award 2011 for the Stockholm Subway Mobile Workforce Project
    IT Europa, the leading European IT publisher and market intelligence organisation, recently announced the winners of the European IT Excellence Awards 2011, the pan-European awards event for IT and Telecoms channels. Amidst fierce competition from 31 countries, the mobile workforce project implemented by MTR Stockholm won the "Communications and Mobility" award
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  • 17 Feb 2011
    Yobs daub racist graffiti on memorial crossing
    A memorial bridge has been vandalised with sickening racist graffiti
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  • 16 Feb 2011
    Offenders 'pay back' 250 hours in Tipton
    Offenders have 'paid back' over 250 hours to the community with clean-up work on land just off Powis Avenue in Tipton
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  • 16 Feb 2011
    Graffiti removal machine takes to the streets
    A machine which can clean graffiti off walls in just a few minutes is Tamworth Borough Council’s newest weapon in the war on vandals
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  • 15 Feb 2011
    Graffiti teenagers clean up their act and learn error of their ways
    A group of teenagers who sprayed graffiti on the walls of a disused factory say they learned the error of their ways after spending a day clearing it up
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  • 15 Feb 2011
    Extensive anti-regime graffiti in Ahvaz by young activists
    NCRI - Inspired by the triumphant uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, young political activists in the southern city of Ahvaz in Iran have started writing anti-regime graffiti in public areas across the city on an extensive scale, according to Iran Khabar on Sunday
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  • 14 Feb 2011
    Four killed as graffiti artist goes on rampage with knives in New York
    A GRAFFITI artist armed with five knives went on a 28-hour rampage across New York city, fatally stabbing his stepfather, ex-girlfriend and her mother, killing a pedestrian and wounding four other people before being arrested in Times Square
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  • 11 Feb 2011
    Joining forces to tackle 'heritage crime'
    On the Western Heights above Dover, 10 acres of military history sprawl across the hillside.
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  • 10 Feb 2011
    In pictures: Graffiti artists paint Madrid shops
    Shopkeepers in Madrid have invited graffiti artists from across Europe to paint their steel shutters to prevent them from being defaced.
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  • 9 Feb 2011
    Graffiti scheme success
    VITAL funding of £30,000 has enabled Craigavon Community Safety Partnership to remove a staggering 1,900 square metres of unsightly and distasteful graffiti across Craigavon since July 2010.
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  • 8 Feb 2011
    The new Asbo: yobs to have iPods and bicycles seized
    POLICE are to be given new powers in their battle against young gangs – confiscating bicycles, iPods and mobiles.
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  • 8 Feb 2011
    Increasing police patrols in Cambridge to discourage graffiti
    ◦The council asked that City Manager Bob Healy confer with Police Commissioner Robert Haas about the increasing police patrols to discourage graffiti near Chatham Street, Dana Street, Broadway and Mass. Ave. The council also asked that the police increase effort to make residents aware of the city’s graffiti hotline.
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  • 8 Feb 2011
    Arrest after graffiti spate
    A can of spray paint was stolen from an artist creating a mosaic on the Bournville estate’s new Chocolate Garden last week. Police believe this was used to graffiti on buildings at the back of St Andrew’s Parade on January 25.
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  • 7 Feb 2011
    Clean start for apprentice
    A YOUNG apprentice is hoping to clean up in the jobs market after swapping glamour for a life of grime.
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  • 7 Feb 2011
    Art's in the right place in Bradford on Avon
    A plan to create a mural on the wall of the Heaven Scent building in Bradford on Avon received approval and a grant of £2,340 from the area board last week
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  • 4 Feb 2011
    Glasgow Sheriff Court to pilot new 'labour payback' scheme for offenders
    LOW LEVEL offenders will be paying their debt to society within hours of sentencing, under a Scottish Government-funded pilot scheme.
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  • 4 Feb 2011
    Frustration at boarded-up Treasury windows
    Forty-one Treasury window panels damaged during December's student protests have still not been boarding up, prompting criticism from a Conservative MP.
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  • 1 Feb 2011
    Shepherd's Monument 'code' was 19th century graffiti
    It is a secret code that has confounded some of the finest minds of the past 150 years, and proved irresistible to hundreds of conspiracy theorists.
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  • 1 Feb 2011
    Scottish low-level offenders 'to do manual labour'
    A new law has come into force across Scotland which means low-level criminals can be ordered to do manual labour instead of serving time in jail.
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  • 31 Jan 2011
    Trouble halves after police go out in force
    YOBBISH behaviour has halved on a Basildon estate after police decided to get tough
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  • 31 Jan 2011
    Theresa May unfolds new 'toolkit' to tackle antisocial behaviour
    Home secretary drops use of the term asbo but says police will retain wide powers to take on troublemakers
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  • 26 Jan 2011
    Mesh could end graffiti menace
    A wall mesh that promises to thwart graffitists could be used in Reading town centre
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  • 25 Jan 2011
    New graffiti law could target opposition groups
    As a rise in ethnic tensions has shocked Russia, the country’s rulers feel that better fences could make better neighbours. And to ensure that no inappropriate slogans deface the walls, fences and buildings of the nation, property owners could be held liable for any graffiti or posters. United Russia’s Duma deputy Ivan Savvidi is the man behind the new bill – but some fear it’s another means of stealthily clamping down on the opposition
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  • 21 Jan 2011
    Graffiti yobs are told to ‘pay up’
    Two young thugs who daubed graffiti on a community hall were forced to pay for the repairs.
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  • 21 Jan 2011
    Binham Priory discovery of giant medieval graffiti
    Thousands of years of history at a remote priory in Norfolk could be unearthed after the discovery of giant medieval graffiti on its walls.
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  • 20 Jan 2011
    We are winning the war against grafitti, say Croydon Council
    The council claims it is winning the war against graffiti. The environmental response team, which is responsible for removing graffiti within 14 days of a report, dealt with 634 incidents from October to December last year.
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  • 19 Jan 2011
    Met in 'hearts and minds' drive to stop violence at student rally
    Police today launched a "hearts and minds" initiative in a bid to prevent another round of rioting at a student protest in London.
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  • 18 Jan 2011
    Maghull and Aintree areas at risk from vandalism following graffiti squad axe
    Vandalism and litter will be a problem following the axing of Sefton’s dedicated graffiti squad warned the Molyneux Ward Labour Action Team last week.
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  • 18 Jan 2011
    Bids for Banksy's identity top $1m
    The identity of British graffiti artist Banksy is being auctioned for $1m on eBay by a US-based seller who claims to have discovered who the artist is.
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  • 17 Jan 2011
    Vandals spray offensive graffiti across Biggleswade
    Offensive graffiti has been daubed over vehicles and houses across a wide area of a town in Bedfordshire
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  • 17 Jan 2011
    Three Orange halls are attacked in Tyrone
    The PSNI are investigating four attacks on three Orange halls in County Tyrone
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  • 14 Jan 2011
    UCL occupation- Students face police inquiry after chalk graffiti damage to Grade-1-listed buildings in Gower Street
    POLICE have been called in to investigate possible “criminal damage” to University College London’s buildings during the student occupation last month, the New Journal can reveal
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  • 13 Jan 2011
    Pensioner secretly tackles graffiti
    For the past five years a Swindon pensioner has been secretly removing graffiti from the town's public places.
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  • 12 Jan 2011
    'Disgusting' graffiti on community building as yobs fight back
    A workman removes graffiti, including pictures of guns and threats to police, with which vandals have covered Mickleover Community Pavilion, in Vicarage Park
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  • 11 Jan 2011
    Loughner earlier arrested for graffiti
    TUCSON, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The suspect in the mass shooting in Tucson was cited in October 2008 for defacing a street sign with symbols, records show
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  • 10 Jan 2011
    Keep Wales Tidy highlights litter 'excuses'
    Campaigners say too many people in Wales are still making excuses for dropping litter.
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  • 10 Jan 2011
    A new book details how graffiti artists have become more inventive as the corporate world has tried to muscle in
    In 21 February 2007, Sotheby's in London auctioned three works by graffiti artist Banksy. The pieces sold for over £170,000.
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  • 7 Jan 2011
    Mysterious black cats by anonymous graffiti artist return to the city
    MYSTERIOUS black cats are once more cropping up around the city.
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  • 5 Jan 2011
    Ominous graffiti on front doors terrorises Abidjan residents
    One morning, François (not his real name) woke up to find his door daubed with graffiti highlighting his ethnic and political affiliation. Fearing the worst, he left his home and is now taking refuge with relatives.
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  • 4 Jan 2011
    Graffiti Spray Pad 2 Lets IPad Users Make Their Mark
    Artists who want to make graffiti without running afoul of the law-or inhaling too many paint fumes-have a new iPad app to help them leave their mark
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  • 3 Jan 2011
    Graffiti vandals paint town red and black
    North Wales Police are appealing for information after graffiti vandals painted Ruthin red and black. Eleven buildings were daubed with graffiti in the town centre.
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  • 29 Dec 2010
    PCSO chased a graffiti artist caught spraying his girlfriend’s name on partition boards
    A GRAFFITI artist was caught by a PCSO as he daubed his girlfriend’s name over a row of partition screens erected in a Wisbech street
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  • 29 Dec 2010
    Graffiti grant is approved
    Plans to fund a graffiti art project in Twyford proved controversial for the parish council, with some councillors fearing it would encourage vandalism.
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  • 28 Dec 2010
    Sheriff blasts grafitti artist as "childish, puerile, stupid, idiotic and immature"
    A GRAFFITI artist who wrecked road signs will have to spend the next two years paying back the council.
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  • 28 Dec 2010
    Boy 10, made to remove graffiti from Neath post office
    A 10-year-old boy who sprayed graffiti on a post office wall was forced to wash it off while villagers looked on.
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  • 28 Dec 2010
    Barcelona shopkeepers face fines over graffiti decoration
    City authorities say commissioned work by graffiti artists on security shutters 'degrades urban fabric'
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  • 23 Dec 2010
    Police: Dover student made racist threat, wrote racist graffiti
    A 14-year-old Dover Area Intermediate School student will be charged in juvenile court for allegedly threatening a fellow student and writing racist graffiti on a bathroom stall, police said.
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  • 23 Dec 2010
    Graffiti Alerts
    Help to stop graffiti on our local streets. West Yorkshire Police are piloting "Graffiti Alerts" using photo-sharing site Flickr.
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  • 21 Dec 2010
    Yarn-bombing – a sort of grafitti with wool - has Glasgow residents in stitches
    Yet, for two young women, their identities obscured by hoodies and parkas, a night like this, with no one around, is an opportunity to use their knitting skills in a rather unorthodox way. "This is yarn-bombing in Scotland," declares the one who uses the alias Purlesque, yelling to be heard over the wind.
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  • 21 Dec 2010
    Graffiti art brightens war-torn Afghan capital
    (Reuters Life!) - A group of women in burqas rises from the sea to symbolize cleanliness, while further down a factory wall a bus with no wheels and crammed with passengers is a stark comment on war-torn Kabul's appalling public transport.
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  • 20 Dec 2010
    Clearing up graffiti in Cheltenham costs council £30k per year
    VANDALS who spray graffiti across Cheltenham are costing taxpayers £30,000 a year, the Echo can reveal
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  • 20 Dec 2010
    'Urban art' graffiti vandal caught red-handed
    A COUNCIL worker was so incensed when he saw a graffiti vandal defacing a billboard he dialled 999, a court was told.
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  • 17 Dec 2010
    trains graffiti damage charges
    THE TRIAL of a Scarborough man who has been accused of causing almost £35,000 worth of damage by spray painting graffiti on trains will be heard at crown court.
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  • 17 Dec 2010
    Christmas is off at a Chippenham school
    Pupils at a Chippenham primary school were left in tears after the school cancelled a Christmas party as punishment for rude graffiti daubed in the girls’ toilets.
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  • 16 Dec 2010
    Landmark Cheltenham bridge set for lift
    A TIRED-LOOKING Cheltenham bridge is set to be given a facelift with scenes depicting wartime aircraft. The railway bridge in Gloucester Road is currently decorated with pictures of Charlie Chaplin, but the paint work is in poor condition and the structure is blighted with graffiti.
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  • 13 Dec 2010
    Clear up bill following protests expected to run into hundreds of thousands of pounds
    The clear-up and repair bill following violent demonstrations across London is estimated to run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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  • 10 Dec 2010
    Con or can do
    What to make of Thierry Guetta, hyperactive Frenchman
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  • 10 Dec 2010
    'Graffiti' campaign aims to reduce drink-related crime
    Alcohol awareness and anti-violence messages are to be sprayed onto the streets by Doncaster Council and police in the run up to Christmas in a bid to cut levels of drink-related crime
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  • 9 Dec 2010
    Increase of Graffiti in Holt Park
    An outbreak of offensive graffiti has emerged in Holt Park
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  • 8 Dec 2010
    Council’s controversial graffiti policy to be reviewed
    After years of protests by locals over the destruction of much-loved street art, Town Hall now says it is “listening and learning”
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  • 8 Dec 2010
    Businesses left to count cost of gang's graffiti rampage
    VANDALS have gone on a late-night graffiti spree, leaving a retail park and surrounding buildings covered in gang signs. Dozens of "tags" were left on walls, shops and the main entrance to Meadowbank Shopping Centre after the rampage on Monday night.
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  • 6 Dec 2010
    Plan to Lift University Tuition Galvanizes British Students
    LONDON — According to the French writer Agnès Poirier, “It is not in the British DNA to demonstrate. The British simply don’t believe in it.” Early last month, when Ms. Poirier, who lives in London, made her comparison between the revolutionary tradition of her native country and the stiff-upper-lip stoicism that seemed to characterize the British response to the financial crisis, there appeared little reason to argue.
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  • 5 Dec 2010
    Graffiti: From Tags to Riches
    You're on the train and you whizz past a wall of scrawl, but is it vandalism or art? Well that's one of the discussions in this documentary which looks at how graffiti has gone from the subways to Sothebys.
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  • 5 Dec 2010
    Drunk man’s graffiti spree seen by CCTV
    A NORTHAMPTON man was sentenced to 100 hours’ community service and ordered to pay £400 in compensation after he sprayed graffiti onto eight town centre shops on the same day.
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  • 3 Dec 2010
    Truth about Youth
    B RISTOL is nationally known as a hub for creativity and is home to many artists, musicians actors and designers. Since the rise of graffiti in popular culture, Bristol was quick to claim Banksy as its prodigal son, but the city is also home to the only dedicated anti-graffiti unit in the country. With the council and the police openly disagreeing on so many levels where street art is concerned it begs the question: is graffiti art or vandalism? Can Bristol really have it both ways?
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  • 3 Dec 2010
    Grime-busting hotline for flytippers and graffiti
    A NEW 24-7 grime-busting hotline is now up and running to deal with any reports of fly-tipping and graffiti around the borough.
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  • 3 Dec 2010
    Councillor's rage at graffiti vandals
    A HULLBRIDGE councillor has slammed the vandals who daubed a village store in graffiti
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  • 30 Nov 2010
    Ashford Shop graffiti was 'tribute to dead teen'
    GRAFFITI artists tagged shops in Ashford high street in a alleged tribute to a teenager who hanged himself in prison a year ago.
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  • 26 Nov 2010
    Teenager charged over Carlisle graffiti vandalism
    Police investigating a string of mystery graffiti attacks in Carlisle have charged a teenage boy with carrying out 37 offences.
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  • 26 Nov 2010
    Private eyes on taggers
    THIS bus stop has been repainted about 40 times in 12 months because of repeated graffiti attacks. It is one of the many buildings that show the current anti-graffiti strategy is not working, according to Curl Curl resident and volunteer graffiti cleaner Geoff Mallinson
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  • 26 Nov 2010
    Police officers should 'tweet from the beat'
    A senior officer at Tayside Police wants police on the beat to engage with the public online. But is "tweeting from the beat" the best way to reassure the public that the police are doing all they can to tackle crime and keep people safe?
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  • 25 Nov 2010
    Police probe racist graffiti at Birkenhead arson site
    POLICE investigating an arson attack at a sea cadet building in Merseyside also found racist graffiti on its walls
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  • 25 Nov 2010
    Hungerford Bridge graffiti vandal jailed for "wanton damage"
    A prolific graffiti vandal who caused more than £8,000 damage at Hungerford Bridge and £10,000 damage at Newington Causeway has been jailed for 24 months following a British Transport Police investigation
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  • 25 Nov 2010
    Art, truth, lies, and graffiti
    Documentary asks big questions about street art community
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  • 24 Nov 2010
    New HMG paint to foil graffiti writers
    Paint manufacturer HMG has developed a new vandal-resistant format for use on train carriages.
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  • 24 Nov 2010
    Graffiti Artist Banksy Strikes Again With 'No Future'
    The mysterious world of Graffiti Artists has been once again set on fire with a new mural appearing in Southampton, on the south coast of England. Rumors are mounting that it is a work by the world re-known graffiti artist Bansky.
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  • 23 Nov 2010
    Referral order for girl who sprayed cenotaph
    A schoolgirl who spray-painted graffiti on a cenotaph in Wolverhampton hours before a ceremony to remember fallen soldiers has been given a nine-month referral order.
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  • 23 Nov 2010
    Inside art: Graffiti lessons for prisoners are slammed
    Street art classes for inmates might send out a confused message about vandalism, but does Banksy's success show these new skills could lead to success on the outside? Politicians claim plans to teach inmates street art send out the wrong message and won't prepare prisoners for life on the outside. Millionaire artist Banksy might disagree.
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  • 22 Nov 2010
    Doncaster police start anti-graffiti campaign
    Doncaster residents are being asked to help with a campaign to catch those responsible for graffiti in the town
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  • 19 Nov 2010
    Tracking down Monument Metro graffiti yobs
    THESE ugly scrawls are becoming an all-too-familiar eyesore at a Tyneside Metro station. Once again yobs have covered a platform in crude graffiti murals at Monument in Newcastle.
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  • 19 Nov 2010
    Graffiti artist won't pay back a penny
    A GRAFFITI vandal who caused damage totalling £10,000 to public and private property across Bristol will not have to pay back a penny
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  • 19 Nov 2010
    Girl sentenced over Wolverhampton war memorial graffiti
    A teenage girl who vandalised a city's cenotaph has been told her actions were "despicable".
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  • 18 Nov 2010
    Police rooftop lasers catch graffiti artists
    GRAFFITI artists who defaced buildings in Peterborough after dark have been caught in the act thanks to new invisible laser triggers - but were let off by police with a warning.
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  • 18 Nov 2010
    Graffiti vandalism 'will not be tolerated'
    VANDALS who sprayed graffiti on Northwood House have been warned it will not be tolerated by police.
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  • 17 Nov 2010
    Swiss graffiti vandal detained in Zurich
    A Swiss citizen who returned to Switzerland on Tuesday after serving a jail sentence in Singapore for vandalism, was arrested when he arrived at Zurich airport.
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  • 17 Nov 2010
    Schoolgirl, 14, shopped to police by her 'disgusted' mother after vandalising war memorial
    Schoolgirl, 14, shopped to police by her 'disgusted' mother after vandalising war memorial
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  • 17 Nov 2010
    Graffiti yobs will be target of clampdown
    Authorities' campaign launched to stop vandals
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  • 16 Nov 2010
    Police seek public's help finding graffiti suspects
    PORTSMOUTH — Police plan to distribute flyers around the city in an effort to arrest whoever is responsible for a recent rash of graffiti
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  • 16 Nov 2010
    Derby's Mackworth estate blighted by graffiti
    Community leaders say they're furious that an estate is being blighted by vandalism but - they claim - nothing is being done about it. The residents on the Mackworth estate in Derby say graffiti is constantly daubed on shops, flats and houses, and one group say their lives have been made hell by youths invading an empty property
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  • 15 Nov 2010
    Bradford on Avon plans a graffiti wall
    A businessman is hoping a plan to create a graffiti wall behind his warehouse in Bradford on Avon will reduce the number of obscene messages scrawled across his property.
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  • 12 Nov 2010
    Protesters Overpower U.K. Police
    LONDON - Students went on the rampage at the headquarters of Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party yesterday smashing windows, throwing objects at police, and scrawling graffiti on walls.
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  • 12 Nov 2010
    Graffiti vandal left with severe burns after climbing on to rail tracks and urinating on transformer
    An Australian man learned the hard way not to urinate on a transformer when he was electrocuted and almost died. The unnamed man, a Gold Coast graffiti vandal, ended up with severe burns on almost half his body after he and three associates snuck into the Coomera railway power station.
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  • 11 Nov 2010
    Manchester United Fans Vandalise Eastlands Pub With ‘Marc-Vivien Foe’ Graffiti
    Ahead of this evening’s Manchester derby, a group of moronic United supporters took to the streets last night to vandalise an Eastlands pub with graffiti referring to late City player Marc-Vivien Foe
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  • 11 Nov 2010
    Gravesham council phone app used to report 75 incidents
    A phone application set up in Kent for people to report problems such as graffiti and anti-social behaviour has been used to report 75 incidents.
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  • 10 Nov 2010
    Leeds memorial to shot policeman vandalised
    A memorial to a policeman who was murdered in Leeds more than 25 years ago has been vandalised.
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  • 10 Nov 2010
    Graffiti art divides councils' opinion
    Is graffiti a renegade art form or a public nuisance? Hackney council is demanding a giant rabbit be whitewashed while Brighton is using graffiti as advertising
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  • 9 Nov 2010
    Telford scheme tackles anti-social issues
    Anti-social issues are being tackled in part of Shropshire in an operation involving police and other groups.
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  • 9 Nov 2010
    Microsoft Admits to Illegal Graffiti Ads
    A week after graffiti-like stencils appeared in the Mission promoting the upcoming launch of the new Windows Phone, Microsoft Corporation has confirmed it was behind the guerilla-style marketing campaign.
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  • 8 Nov 2010
    Offenders clear up rubbish from Oldbury
    OFFENDERS have carried out clean-up work in Oldbury in the final weeks of Sandwell's 'Safer 6' campaign. They have cleared away graffiti, rubbish and undergrowth to 'pay back' their debt to society
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  • 3 Nov 2010
    Snort tag blights walls across city
    A GRAFFITI artist has caused thousands of pounds worth of damage by daubing "snort" on buildings across the city.
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  • 3 Nov 2010
    Hunt for Portland's Hallowe'en night vandals
    POLICE are hunting Hallowe’en night vandals after a spate of graffiti attacks on Portland.
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  • 3 Nov 2010
    Friends remember young men killed by train
    MONTREAL — Days after the tragic deaths of three young men who were hit by a Via Rail train in the Turcot yards, friends of one of the deceased are gathering at John Abbott College.
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  • 2 Nov 2010
    Montreal graffiti writers mourn train deaths
    Spot where teens died is a tagging 'hall of fame,' says graffiti artist
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  • 2 Nov 2010
    Graffiti is no laughing matter in Brightlingsea
    GRAFFITI vandals have caused hundreds of pounds of damage to six beach huts in Brightlingsea.
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  • 1 Nov 2010
    ROA's graffiti rabbit faces removal by Hackney council
    Renowned Belgian street artist's rabbit – painted on side of recording studio – under threat
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  • 1 Nov 2010
    Clean-up crew launch
    A REVOLUTIONARY new service has been launched to wipe away graffiti and tidy up the streets
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  • 29 Oct 2010
    Trav nabbed for German tag
    TRAVIE McCOY felt the long arm of the law in Germany last night.
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  • 28 Oct 2010
    Graffiti clean-up in historic lanes
    John Bird and Martin Branton in Tindall Lane, Beverley.A GRAFFITI clean-up aims to improve the look of historic lanes in Beverley town centre
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  • 27 Oct 2010
    Graffiti-busting mother so upset by scrawls around town she spent £8,500 on to buy council machine to clean walls
    A generous mum was so disgusted by graffiti in her picturesque home town she has spent a whopping £8,500 on a machine to clean up the streets - because the council couldn't afford one.
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  • 27 Oct 2010
    Graffiti yob is locked up
    A vandal who admitted 87 graffiti offences, causing more than £500,000 of damage in a year, has been jailed for 15 months.
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  • 27 Oct 2010
    Graffiti vandals damage listed church ruin in Eastwell
    Vandals have caused damage that will cost thousands of pounds to clean up at a ruined ancient church in Kent.
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  • 22 Oct 2010
    Three cheers for the graffiti removal team
    TORREVIEJA - Torrevieja Town Hall Councillor, Jose Antonio Sanchez Garcia, announced that he is extremely proud of what has been achieved by the students of the ‘Taller de Empleo para el Reciclaje Profesional Habaneras I’ workshop, whose mission to eradicate graffiti across buildings and public areas across the city commenced in January.
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  • 22 Oct 2010
    Counting the cost after graffiti tagging vandalism spree in Cottingham
    A ONE-night spree of tagging-style vandalism left families and businesses in Cottingham with a massive clean-up operation.
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  • 21 Oct 2010
    Cleaners to rid Southport streets of chewing gum
    Sefton Council may be hiring contract cleaners in an effort to remove chewing gum and graffiti from the streets of Southport.
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  • 21 Oct 2010
    Anger at graffiti advertisement on crematorium wall
    GRAFFITI has been sprayed on the wall of Southend Crematorium to advertise a car wash which has no planning permission to operate.
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  • 20 Oct 2010
    Vandals target Devizes play areas
    Several play areas in Devizes are being targeted by graffiti vandals leaving one of them closed for days.
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  • 19 Oct 2010
    Vandalism in Guernsey 'not solved by review'
    A review of how to tackle vandalism in Guernsey was never going to cure the problem by itself, the politician who led the review has said.
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  • 19 Oct 2010
    Cape Town city and graffiti artists face spray-off
    A giant smiley face painted on a shack, a stripey t-shirt on a beach, a crook of an elbow in a rural dusty goat pen, and an offbeat finger puppet on a Cape Town city wall: street art or vandalism?
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  • 18 Oct 2010
    Vandal behind bars after year-long graffiti campaign
    A graffiti vandal caused more than half a million pounds of damage to trains, road signs, council property and listed buildings over the course of a year.
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  • 18 Oct 2010
    Graffiti Art Earns New Respect in Moscow
    MOSCOW — From the Jean-Michel Basquiat show opening on Friday at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, to the street art retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in April, highbrow institutions in the West are opening their doors to graffiti art. Now Moscow is promoting the urban art form as well. The city is increasingly becoming a stage for local and international graffiti artists — creating a dialogue within the community, and highlighting the difficulties of surviving as a street artist in contemporary Russia.
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  • 15 Oct 2010
    Anti-cuts graffiti painted on Nottingham County Hall
    Vandals have painted slogans on Nottinghamshire County Council's County Hall in protest at proposed cuts.
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  • 14 Oct 2010
    Graffiti vandal who caused £45,000 damage is jailed
    A graffiti vandal who was caught after filming himself spray painting trains in Essex has been jailed for a year, British Transport Police (BTP) said.
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  • 13 Oct 2010
    Ben Eine takes English street art out of short trousers
    The Moniker International Art Fair opens in London this week. Scheduled to coincide with Frieze, Moniker offers an alternative platform for less mainstream artists to showcase their work – something which Ben Eine, graffiti writer and best pal of Banksy, thinks is a clear move toward taking street art out of short trousers and into adulthood.
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  • 12 Oct 2010
    MP wants more action on graffiti
    The New South Wales Opposition says more needs to be done to tackle graffiti in the south east.
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  • 11 Oct 2010
    Graffiti: art or crime -- a youth's perspective
    Around town these days, there has been a lot of graffiti. Are these painted walls vandalism? Or are they a form of art? Many people will tell you that graffiti is a problem, and should be stopped. Graffiti has been around since the beginning of man. Remember the cave drawings? No one thought that was vandalism.
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  • 11 Oct 2010
    Girl arrested over graffiti on Wolverhampton Cenotaph
    A 15-year-old girl has been arrested after offensive graffiti was daubed on the Cenotaph in Wolverhampton.
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  • 7 Oct 2010
    Urban myths: Has street art sold out?
    As a new show dedicated to graffiti, stencils and spray paint opens, Matilda Battersby asks if such anarchic work really belongs in a gallery
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  • 7 Oct 2010
    Gravesham council phone application to report incidents
    A phone application to report a range of incidents including graffiti, anti-social behaviour and housing repairs has been launched by a Kent council.
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  • 5 Oct 2010
    Non-stick chewing gum that promises to clean up our streets goes on sale
    A non-stick chewing gum that dissolves within 24 hours went on sale yesterday. The materials developed can be used for lots of other uses such as anti-graffiti paint and bacterial protection.
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  • 5 Oct 2010
    Frustration as motivation. Vandalism:constructive or destructive behavior
    One of the most common forms of vandalism today is TTP-graffiti (tags, throw-ups and pieces) but there are discrepant viewpoints about whether graffiti is vandalism or art. Studies show that people involved in graffiti have interests in art, demonstrate a desire for attention, respect and status and that graffiti is about talent, skills, competition, pride and pleasure. About 90-95 % of all graffitists are male, mostly between the ages of 12 and 20, with peak frequency years between the ages of 14 and 16. According to The Equity Control Model of Vandalism, the underlying motive in most vandalistic acts is perceived inequity, and variables involved are: control, environment, group variables, societal reactions and terms of equity restoration.
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  • 4 Oct 2010
    Police make arrest in hunt for 'Soak' graffiti artist
    POLICE have arrested a man in connection with hundreds of graffiti tags daubed across Oxford and last night warned more arrests could follow.
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  • 1 Oct 2010
    Graffiti vandal runs up £2,000 cleaning bill
    A GRAFFITI vandal in Sudbury town centre has left listed buildings and businesses defaced and the council facing a costly clean up bill.
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  • 30 Sep 2010
    Video showing graffiti removal with OFF Iris
    MPE International presents OFF Iris, our new ecologic and efficient product for graffiti removal! OFF Iris belongs to the new generation of graffiti removers that are both efficient and ecological!
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  • 30 Sep 2010
    Police probing graffiti art made with developer’s OK
    A police investigation has been launched after developers allowed giant graffiti art to be daubed on a huge wall in Cambridge.
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  • 30 Sep 2010
    Graffiti and flyposting invite punishment in China
    A total of 117 people are being held in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality for forgery as well as defacing road surfaces and the walls of public buildings with graffiti and illegal advertisements, local police said.
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  • 29 Sep 2010
    Young people help remove graffiti
    Groups of young people have been helping to clean up graffiti around Leicester.
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  • 29 Sep 2010
    Historic Scotland orders removal of graffiti artwork from Scottish castle
    A heritage body has ordered the removal of graffiti artwork from a 13th century Scottish castle.
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  • 28 Sep 2010
    Worthing youngsters clean up graffiti as punishment
    FIVE youths who owned up to daubing graffiti on the wall of a garage compound spent an afternoon cleaning up their mess.
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  • 28 Sep 2010
    Anti-graffiti unit work in Birmingham hailed a success
    A STRATEGY to rid Birmingham of ugly graffiti – some of it a quarter of a century old – has been hailed a success by the council.
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  • 20 Jul 2010
    19-year-old sprayed employee in the head
    Young graffiti artist was arrested
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  • 30 Jun 2010
    Flogging and imprisonent for scribbler
    Five months in prison and three types flogging
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  • 1 Jan 1970
    Marriage proposed with garage graffiti
    LEHIGH ACRES, Fla., May 6 (UPI) -- A couple said they were angered to learn someone had used the garage at their Florida vacation home as a canvas to spray paint a marriage proposal Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/05/06/Marriage-proposed-with-garage-graffiti/UPI-78301304702735/#ixzz1LplGzrPG
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