Statue of peace icon is unveiled

A STATUE of Midland peace campaigner Brian Haw has been unveiled in London.

- STAFF REPORTER

Mr Haw, from Redditch, camped out in Parliament Square for nearly 10 years to protest against UK and US foreign policy. He was removed shortly before his death in 2011 aged 62.

The statue was unveiled facing the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth by three of his children recently.

Actor Sir Mark Rylance, who campaigned for the statue, admired Mr Haw and told the BBC he was inspired by his "bright sense of conscience".

"His great call was to stop killing the children," said Sir Mark, who is a patron of the Stop the War coalition.