A sceptre that went missing from a seafront statue about 40 years ago is to be replaced. The monument to King George III was installed on Weymouth's Esplanade in 1809 to mark the monarch's Golden ...

The figure holds a cross-bearing scepter. The man's gold-embroidered purple mantle is decorated with medallions displaying double-headed eagles with a crown between their heads, a distinctive ...

But the 5ft-long (1.5m) staff, topped with a cross, disappeared from his right ... "We've got absolutely no idea how the sceptre went missing. "We are talking to organisations to find out who ...