The sculpture depicts Prospero and Ariel from William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. A controversial sculpture outside the ...

The BBC has spent more than £500,000 restoring a controversial statue created by a paedophile that sits outside its London ...

Ariel doesn’t have a close relationship to other characters in the play and is often invisible to the other characters. In Shakespeare’s day, people believed that sprites and fairies were real.

The sculpture, which depicts Prospero and Ariel from William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, was created by Eric Gill, who is said to have sexually abused two of his daughters. Gill was among ...