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A new banner featuring a town's popular mascot has been unveiled ... artist Sammi Wong and a piece of art that won her a World Illustration Award. Ms Wong, who now works at Suffolk New College ...
The BBC says it 'utterly condemned' online claims that a University Challenge team's blue octopus mascot was an anti-Semitic symbol. Christ Church from Oxford University appeared on last night ...
On it, Melika Gorgianeh, a team member and PhD candidate in astrophysics, wore a navy blue, pink, and green jacket and was seated behind the team mascot: a fluffy, smiley, stuffed blue octopus.
The BBC has been forced to deny claims that an octopus mascot on quiz University Challenge was displayed by contestants as a coded attack on Jewish people. Screenshots of Monday night’s episode ...
A third wrote: “This is disgraceful from the BBC.How on earth was Melika Gorgianeh from @ChCh_Oxford allowed to have a blue octopus, a well-known antisemitic trope, on display as a mascot on ...
A new banner has been unveiled on Ipswich's Paul's silo building on the waterfront A new banner featuring a town's popular mascot has been ... that won her a World Illustration Award.
The mascot is one of many… — BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) November 21, 2023 Prior to this, some commenters on social media had raised scepticism about the inclusion of octopus, accusing the ...