{"id":826453,"date":"2026-07-26T03:33:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826453\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T03:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:33:49","slug":"call-for-permanent-statue-for-ilkestons-gnome-island-figurines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826453\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for permanent statue for Ilkeston&#8217;s Gnome Island figurines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a motion to the borough council, he called for the ornament-attracting landmark&#8217;s cultural significance to be recognised, and for the council to help support &#8220;the creation of a permanent statue of Mr and Mrs Gnome&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statue would be funded by community fundraising, Price added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said Gnome Island was regularly featured in the media, with its own Facebook page run by a shadowy figurine &#8211; known only as Ilson Gnome &#8211; and was even featured on a giant flag flown at Glastonbury Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ilson Gnome posted about plans to erect a 20ft gnome statue in Market Place earlier this year &#8211; on 1 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the April Fool&#8217;s joke could one day become a reality, as Price said that the roundabout had become &#8220;part of Ilkeston&#8217;s modern story&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a motion to the borough council, he called for the ornament-attracting landmark&#8217;s cultural significance to be recognised,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-826453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}