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Could it be Banksy in Chaddleworth?





The Newbury Weekly News was first alerted to graffiti on the bus shelter, close to the Ibex Inn, on Monday by a villager.
The words ‘there is no such thing as graffiti’ echo the style of the British street artist and appeared to have been spray-painted through a stencil.
The chairman of Chaddleworth Parish Council, Grahame Murphy, said he was concerned that the graffiti was in response to a warning published in the village’s newsletter last month warning residents to be villagers against graffiti.
He said: “We have had a spate of this recently.
“This happens from time to time in a village, you get one or two people who come to the village and cause trouble.”
This is the second time the bus shelter has fallen victim to graffiti this year, with offensive graffiti also being removed from the inside of the bus shelter at the end of March.
There was also an incident involving graffiti at the end of last year, and Mr Murphy said the roof of the bus shelter had also become damaged from people climbing onto it.
He said the incident would be reported to the police, and he would be contacting West Berkshire Council to have the graffiti removed.
Banksy has been a hot topic of conversation in recent years as graffiti appeared across the district, causing a particular stir In 2011, when an image of the Queen appeared holding a gun, just minutes away from the Middleton residence.
It had portrayed the Queen driving a small, two-door car, whilst grasping a large pistol. The car carried a Neighbourhood Watch symbol and was ridden with bullet holes.
In 2010, a stencil-style picture of a baby in dungarees, which appeared close to the Waitrose roundabout on the A4 in Newbury, also prompted people to wonder if Banksy had been active again.



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