The UK Independence Party is to contest the Riverside ward by-election. Fernando Grace, a former Tory who last week announced he would stand as an independent, has now secured the backing of the euro-sceptic party.
An animatronic statue that reacts to and imitates the people around it has been unveiled in Bankside's Sumner Street.
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