Posh and Becks waxwork nativity is vandalised
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A vandal has knocked over a controversial waxwork nativity scene which portrays David Beckham as Joseph and his wife Victoria as the Virgin Mary.
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Bend It Like Beckham maker Gurinder Chada is to direct the nativity play at her former school.
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PLAISTOW, N.H. - A homeowner said Friday that whoever stole the baby Jesus from his manger scene was disrespectful by replacing it with an empty beer can. Bob Chooljain said that the Jesus figure was stolen from the manger scene on Wednesday night.
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Christian leaders on Wednesday denounced a Nativity scene at a London wax museum featuring soccer star David Beckham and his wife Victoria, a former Spice Girl, as the parents of Jesus.
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An art prank  by a Czech collective has highlighted an old Czech tradition of tomfoolery that is a particular matter of national cultural pride.
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Home Secretary John Reid has waded into a seasonal row over politically correct attempts to ban festive decorations and even the word &quot;Christmas&quot;, branding the whole subject &quot;mad&quot;.
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A memorial to victims of an IRA bomb attack in County Down is vandalised, just two days after it was unveiled.
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OBERLIN, Ohio - An artist's creation of gingerbread Nazis drew complaints after it was displayed in a hardware store window, prompting the store owner to demand the artwork be removed.
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MANCHESTER - Irate Manchester United fans have struck the first blow in American tycoon Malcolm Glazer&#39;s attempt to buy the club by vandalising two cars belonging to United&#39;s director Maurice Watkins.
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A CAMPAIGN to restore a church's boundary walls has been bolstered with a donation from freemasons. The Worcestershire-based Mark Masons handed over a cheque for pounds 250 to the Church of St James the Great in Shirley, which is trying to raise funds for the essential repairs to be made.
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Two civil liberties groups sued in federal court Wednesday to remove a picture of Jesus that has hung in a high school for more than 30 years.
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When a church group put a nativity scene on public property, officials warned it might open the door to other religious &#151; and not-so-religious &#151; displays. They were right.
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An exhibit depicting a hanged child at an art fair in the southern Spanish city of Seville has sparked a row between the gallery and local authorities, who demanded it be removed.
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Police seal off part of Dam Wood in Croxteth area as Liverpool football club prepares tribute.
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FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - Paula Barstow's singing Santa stopped singing after holiday vandals pulled out his power cord and ran over his head. Baby Jesus was literally cut out of the Shalimar Presbyterian Church's wooden Nativity display.
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Environmental activists deface a photo exhibition sponsored by oil giant Shell at the Natural History Museum.
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A miraculous image of Jesus Christ in the froth of an almost empty pint of beer is to be used as an advert to encourage more Britons to go to church this Christmas, it has been announced.