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"I know that all rightminded Mancunians will be saddened that anyone would use this horrific, offensive language and deface this mural in the Gay Village. It is totally unacceptable," he added.

Attempts by private groups or individuals to get into a water provider’s network and take down or deface websites aren’t new.

Those laws make it a crime to assault someone or deface property because of race, religion or nationality, and increase punishments for other crimes when committed based on similar types of bias.

If we build it, they will deface it.

Critics have said the plan would deface areas of outstanding national beauty by adding more pylons - the huge steel structures which have been accused of blighting landscapes.