{"id":502553,"date":"2026-06-16T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502553\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:38:10","slug":"shropshires-knife-angel-statue-returns-to-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502553\/","title":{"rendered":"Shropshire&#8217;s Knife Angel statue returns to county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A giant statue of an angel made from more than 100,000 bladed weapons has returned to Shropshire, on a national knife-crime awareness tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27ft (8m) sculpture was commissioned by the British Ironworks Centre near Oswestry and created by sculptor Alfie Bradley in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was made out of weapons surrendered to police forces around the country and has been taken around towns and cities in the UK to support anti-knife crime campaigns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It arrived in Shrewsbury on Tuesday and is scheduled to remain in the town centre for the next six weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Town clerk Helen Ball said the town council would work with schools, community organisations and other groups during its stay and would arrange a series of activities and events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the statue &#8220;carries a powerful message about the devastating impact of knife crime and the importance of working together to create safer communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statue is also a memorial to those who have lost their lives because of knives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clive Knowles, chairman of British Ironworks, said: &#8220;We are delighted that Shrewsbury is joining the growing number of towns and cities standing together against violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A giant statue of an angel made from more than 100,000 bladed weapons has returned to Shropshire, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-502553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}