This one's gone, " he says of the missing top string, "that one's gone, and this little guy's almost out of commission.

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The Brunel statue is one of a string of items to have gone missing as rising commodity prices make metal objects in public places attractive to thieves.

BBC: The empty plinth and the statue that was stolen

While LulzSec has kept a very active Twitter feed, Sony itself has gone quiet after being subjected to a string of cyber attacks in the last two months.

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