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BBC News
By David Pittam
image captionA message has been stencilled on the board covering the dismantled section of wall
When a Banksy mural appeared on the side of a beauty salon in Nottingham, it was an uplifting moment.
At the time, the city was struggling with one of the highest Covid infection rates in the UK, and - as one resident put it - we needed something like this .
It is no surprise then that the sudden removal of the hula-hooping girl has not gone down well.
The piece was cut from the side of the salon in the early hours of Wednesday, having been sold to a Essex-based art collector.
Mobile News
December 21, 2020
With the government downgrading its full-fibre rollout pledge, it’s time to look at wireless as a viable connectivity alternative for rural areas, says Cambium Networks’
Nigel King
In his 2020 spending review last month, Chancellor Rishi Sunak reduced the government’s investment in rural broadband from £5 billion to £1.2 billion and also watered down the Conservatives’ election pledge to deliver fibre broadband to every home in the country by 2025 to a lower target of 85 per cent.
Our government has long been focused on delivering full-fibre broadband. But it appears that the challenges of making this dream a reality have become too much. Rather than focus all of its efforts on fibre, it should instead seek alternative ways to deliver broadband to rural areas and look to other countries who have overcome the same issue for solutions and learn from their approaches.