A sceptre that went missing from a seafront statue about 40 years ago is to be replaced. The monument to King George III was installed on Weymouth's Esplanade in 1809 to mark the monarch's Golden ...

But the 5ft-long (1.5m) staff, topped with a cross, disappeared from his right ... "We've got absolutely no idea how the sceptre went missing. "We are talking to organisations to find out who ...