THIS is the world's only full-size statue of Charles Dickens. And it's on the other side of the Atlantic in Philadelphia.

The Americans, who loved Dickens, sent it to England as a tribute to the author - but it was returned to sender because of a "no memorials" clause in his will.

Do you think the time has come for a statue to be erected in Rochester in defiance of his last request?

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