The Boar War ; Muslims Angry at Plan to Bring Back Historic Statue of Wild Pig

Mail on Sunday › March 22, 2004

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FOR more than 100 years it stood proudly as the centrepiece of England's oldest public park before being decapitated during a Second World War air raid.

Now a row has broken out after plans to replace Derby's historic Florentine Boar statue were abandoned for fear of offending Muslims, whose religion considers pigs to be 'unclean'.

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The Boar War ; Muslims Angry at Plan to Bring Back Historic Statue of Wild Pig

A replica of the statue, a crouching wild boar, was intended as the jewel in the crown of a Pounds 5 million National Lottery- fun...

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