Statue of Wallace and Gromit villain unveiled

Statue of Wallace and Gromit villain unveiled – should he be ‘arrested’?

A four-feet-high bronze statue of evil penguin Feathers McGraw has been unveiled near to his arch-enemies Wallace and Gromit.

Crowds gathered in Preston, Lancashire, to watch Nick Park, the creator of the popular animation film franchise, reveal the sculpture in his home city. They greeted the new artwork with cheers and, of course, a few playful boos.

Laughter heard as one onlooker shouted “arrest that chicken”.

Feathers McGraw appeared in the Oscar-winning The Wrong Trousers and returned in a starring role in Vengeance Most Fowl. This premiered on BBC One on Christmas Day.

Long thought to be a chicken, Feathers exposed as a penguin when Wallace and Gromit foiled his plan to rob a museum of a precious diamond.

Preston-born Park and the Mayor of Preston, Councillor Philip Crowe, performed the ceremony on Thursday. This as part of the opening of Animate, the city’s new £45 million entertainment and leisure complex on the site of its former indoor market.