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ed from their grounds overnight.CCTV footgage has emerged showing thieves armed with heavy machinery and cranes carrying out the heist in northern Queensland.Pictured: One of the robbers taking the Big MangoFacebookThe famous fruit was unveiled at the Bowen Tourist Information Centre in 2002,Nike Air Max 2015 Women Shoes Pink Black, and costed $90,000 (just under £50,000) to install.Bowen Tourism chairman Paul McLaughlin thought it was a joke when he was first told about its disappearance.He told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "It looks like it was sort of two o'clock this morning-type thing. There was ... some heavy equipment and it looks like they've taken the mango."Mr McLaughlin was confident,Nike Air Max 2013 Womens UK, however, it would be found.He told the Brisbane Times: "At the end of the day it's a bloody big mango and I'm sure someone will see it and we'll find it anyway."I think it'll definitely turn up, no doubt about that. We're not sure what has happened but I'm sure we'll get it back." Post by Bowen&039;s Big Mango.The Big Mango is one of the 150 big fruit and animal sculptures located at tourist attractions across Australia. Bowen is known as the mango production capital of Australia. <div
Mississippi Fraternity Suspended For Hanging Noose on Black Student StatueBy Tom PorterFebruary 22, 2014 17:21 GMTThe statue of James Meredith at Ole Miss (WikiCommons)An American university fraternity chapter has been suspended and three freshmen expelled after a noose was placed around the neck of a statue of James Meredith, the first black student at Ole Miss university in Oxford, Mississippi.Sigma Phi Epsilon said it had decided to suspend its Alpha Chapter indefinitely, and that the names of the three students involved had been handed to investigators."It is embarrassing that these men had previously identified with our fraternity," said Brian C Warren Jr, CEO of Sigma Phi Epsilon. "SigEp as a national fraternity has championed racial equality and issues on diversity since 1959 when it became the first national fraternity to invite members of all races, creeds and religions to join."The incident last Sunday, in which the statue was also draped in an old Georgia state flag containing Confederate colours, has prompted the FBI to investigate whether any federal laws have been violated as the initial vandalism investigation was widened.When Meredith attempted to enter the university as its first black student in 1962, he was personally blocked by the state governor. This prompted violent demonstrations that left two people dead. The federal government sent 500 state troops to secure the campus and ensure Meredith could enter the school.The university's authorities said that it had assembled enough evidence to warrant the expulsion of the three students,Nike Air Max 2014, who are all white, and had handed its file over to the district attorney's office."What we want to do is to show this type of action can't take place on this campus. We want to demonstrate that we will not tolerate this type of behaviour," said college spokesman Danny Blanton.The university is unlikely to press for criminal charges, as the statue was undamaged and the suspects were not trespassing, but federal prosecutors may still do so.University Chief of Police Calvin Sellers said that a $25,000 (£15,000) reward offered by the Ole Miss Alumni association had been "instrumental in bringing quick results in the investigation, generating numerous leads".Some believe that the university's authorities need to do more to tackle the institution's reputation for racism and bigotry."We don't take ownership of this university,Nike Max 2015 Women Black Green Blue UK," Jonece Dunigan, one of the college's 33% of ethnic minority students told the New York Times. "My life is kind of centered around work and going to school and studying until like three in the morning. The reason why these things happen again and again and again is because we allow them to."Last September, when a play about the murder of a gay student in Wyoming in 1998 was staged,Nike Air Max 2015 Women Black Blue Pink UK, there was homophobic heckling from the audience.Racial slurs were hurled and two arrested at a protest at the university on the day of Barack Obama's second inauguration in 2012.The university was closely tied with the pro-slavery Confederates during the American Civil War (1861-1865), when its student body served as soldiers. <div
Mis-Sold PPI Complaints Fall to 190,000 but 'Still Depressingly High'By Lianna BrindedMarch 4, 2014 07:13 GMTMis-selling PPI Complaints Fall to 190,000 but is "Still Depressingly High"ReutersThe number of mis-sold payment protection insurance complaints fell in the second half of last year but still stood at 190,000 in total.According to data from Britain's Financial Ombudsman Services (FoS), the number of PPI complaints dropped from 266,000 from the first half of last year, but is "still depressingly high.""We're still a long way from being able to say that PPI is sorted once and for all," said Chief Ombudsman Tony Boorman, who took over from Natalie Ceeney following her shock departure to join a bank."Over 1,000 people every day are still asking us to sort out PPI problems that they've not been able t |
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