Margate: Banksy Valentine's Day artwork has piece returned

A Banksy artwork successful Margate that was dismantled by the section assembly has had a portion returned.

The mural shows a 1950s housewife with a swollen oculus and missing tooth, seemingly shutting a antheral successful a freezer.

The artwork - called "Valentine's time mascara" - had incorporated a breached freezer, a breached plot chair, a bluish crate and an bare brew bottle, which were each removed.

However, the freezer has since been returned.

Thanet District Council antecedently said the freezer would instrumentality "once it has been made safe".

On Wednesday afternoon, a assembly spokesperson said the freezer was made harmless and returned to its archetypal position.

"The assembly has a work to guarantee the ongoing information of the public; it was indispensable to transportation retired works to the freezer for wellness and information reasons," helium said.

"Banksy raises the important contented of home maltreatment successful this artwork. We are successful interaction with the proprietor of the spot to recognize their intentions astir the preservation of the portion and to unafraid the champion imaginable result for the section assemblage and victims of home abuse."

Banksy published a representation of the enactment connected his Instagram page connected Valentine's Day morning, and galore of the comments suggest helium is referencing warring unit against women.

The creator besides posted pictures showing a close-up of the woman's smiling, but seemingly battered, face.