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Last Updated: Monday, 2 August, 2004, 06:36 GMT 07:36 UK
Graffiti: street art or vandalism?
Grafitti
Pop stars urged to stop using grafitti as video backdrops

27 million pounds is spent each year removing it and now a Keep Britain Tidy campaign says it's time for pop stars and advertisers to stop glamorising graffiti.

What do you think?

On Breakfast, this morning:

  • We talked to our correspondent Kevin Bouquet who was in Manchester

  • We also heard from Sue Nelson from the Keep Britain Tidy group.

    Pop stars have to stop using grafitti backdrops for their videos as it ends up glamourising grafitti. Grafitti is often done in secrecy as it is spoiling property, residents and shopkeepers don't like it, and in surveys it is considered to be as bad as drug dealing and noise.

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