A BRONZE statue of a North-East acting legend has bizarrely been caught up in two natural disasters in China during its manufacture. Silent film star Arthur Stanley Jefferson - Stan Laurel - rose to fame in the Twenties and and Thirties as one half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. The actor has hit the headlines again after a sculpture due to be installed in his home town of Bishop Auckland was struck by an earthquake and a typhoon on the other side of the world, last month. Artist Bob Olley was commissioned to make the figure by Wear Valley District Council as part of a multi-million pound regeneration plan. After struggling to mould the head in the UK, organisers, fearful of the looming July launch date, thought it quicker to send the job to a steel foundry near the city of Chengdu, central China. Halfway through...
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