“The City of Melbourne was made aware of damage to the Batman monument at Queen Victoria Market early this morning,” a council spokesman said. The John Batman memorial statue at the Queen ...

Belfast City Council is clamping down on the number of occasions it will light up City Hall, as it seems the bulging illumination calendar has lost the run of itself. In 2024, there were 14 set ...

Less than a fortnight later, the statue was felled and its base defaced again, this time with: “The colony can fall”. The Queen Victoria statue ... “The city is in the process of undertaking ...

From white wedding dresses to Christmas trees, Victoria’s personal choices became global trends—long before the age of social media. Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901) saw an unprecedented ...

Sinn Fein has made a request for Belfast City Hall to be lit up to celebrate the Republic’s National Day of Commemoration around July 11 — just as bonfires are lit up across the city by ...