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"When the statue of Edward Colston was pulled from St Augustine&apos;s Reach in the Floating Harbour last week, it was filled with mud and water and had an old bike tyre hanging from it. In the days since, the statue has been held at a secret location in Bristol, and conservators are carefully drying it out, and looking to preserve everything about the statue, his face being daubed with paint, the minutes after it was pulled down, its 83 minute journey from plinth to the bottom of the harbour and even the bike tyre it came up with. The work is being done by the council&apos;s conservations team, who might usually be expecting to clean off graffiti from a historic thing, rather than make sure it doesn&apos;t flake away. Read our full report <a href=\"https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/what-happened-edward-colston-statue-4237115\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"Follow\">here.</a>"
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