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Clarkson’s Farm presenter Jeremy Clarkson spoke about his concerns for the Natural History Museum in a recent column.The farming star spoke about the way he felt young people were treating historical artefacts under the title “we can’t rewrite history”.Jeremy, 61, spoke about his admiration for the London landmark in a column for The Sun. He wrote: “I have always believed that the Natural History Museum in London is the most jaw-dropping building in the entire world.“But when I drove past it this week, I was struck by the alarming fact that it was built in Victorian times by a country which had become rich thanks in no small part to the slave trade.“There’s not much we can do about that today however, except hope and pray that some students don’t come in the night and throw it into the River Thames.”The former Top Gear presenter went on to joke that Stonehenge would face the same fate as the statue of Edward Colston did in Bristol during lockdown. “They could probably lob Stonehenge in there too, on the basis those enormous rocks were not carried from Wales to Wiltshire by people who were paid a living wage,” Jeremy continued.“And, in light of what happened after a statue was thrown into Bristol Harbour recently, it would all be fully legal.”In June 2020, the statue of Edward Colston was hurled into the harbour as part of an anti-racism protest.The bronze of Colston, a 17th-century slave trader, was dragged through the streets of the city, triggering a national conversation on the legacy of Britain’s colonial past.The protests were part of the much larger Black Lives Matter movement, which swept over the world that summer following the unjust killing of George Floyd.Floyd was an African-American man who was murdered by a

The statue of slave trader Edward Colston has been fished out of Bristol Harbour early this morning by the council.Shortly after 6am, Bristol City Council shared video footage of a salvage crew retrieving the smeared figure and said that it is being '"taken to a secure location".They added that the statue needed to be removed to operate the working harbour, and that it will later form part of their museums collection.The bronze memorial was torn down from its plinth at the Black Lives Matter demonstration on Sunday.A large group of protesters pulled it down with rope before toppling it into the city's water.The removal came some years after residents had been campaigning to have the 17th century figure removed by the council due to