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Urgent Press Release from South Norfolk Council
Released on 23 October 2003
One of the sculptures created for South Norfolk Council's Celestial Festival, as part of Bergh Apton Community Arts Tour of the Planets, has been stolen.
The tour is one of the events of the ten-day Celestial Festival - which celebrates the special qualities of the night sky of South Norfolk and aims to raise awareness about the issue of light pollution. Bergh Apton Community Arts created the tour of the planets, in scale, across the village.
Pluto, represented by a "beautifully burnished sculpture of Persephone", created by artist Janice Burgoyne for the Festival, has been taken. It is 17inches in diameter and would have taken two men to lift.
South Norfolk Council's Festival Co-ordinator Heidi Hadley is appealing for the sculpture to be returned:
"It is a real shame. Many of the children taking the chance of going on the planets tour in their half term break will feel very let down and disappointed. I appeal to whoever has taken this sculpture to put it back, so that everyone can enjoy it. It has been a great festival so far, and we are determined not to let this incident spoil it."
Pat Mlejnecky from Bergh Apton Community Arts said:
"Please bring back Pluto - without it there is a black hole in our solar system."
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