Two blokes have been charged with tearing the bronze plaques off Derby Railway War Memorial. Fortunately they were found and are repairable (the plaques, dunno about the men).

Trains are held up daily because people steal the signalling cable. A local church had the lead stolen from the roof just weeks after it had been repaired after a previous theft.

But I can't help feeling that the furore is really because the sacrifices of previous generations are used to sanctify modern imperialism by war. The government is already saying that criticism of the war is betrayal of "our boys".