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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-12T03:18:13.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nChester's ancient Roman walls have been vandalised with graffiti.\n\nCheshire Police said a witness reported \"four women spraying white paint\" on the walls just after 4.30pm on Monday.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nOfficers from the force's Rural Crime Team found a section of the walls near the cathedral tagged with graffiti which included the names \"Jasmine\", \"Paris\", and \"Lilly\".\n\nPC Jono Lightfoot said the walls had \"very strict\" protections in law as both a Scheduled Monument and World Heritage site.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\nHe said: \"Spraying paint like this on the historic fabric causes damage to the stone and It also costs a lot of money to remove.\n\n\"This type of incident is a heritage crime and will not be tolerated.\"\n\nAnyone with any information in relation to the latest incident is asked to contact Cheshire Police via the website, or on 101, quoting IML-2285695.\n\nIn January, a different section of the historic walls were daubed with paint.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nVandals sprayed the walls sometime between 3pm on January 7 and 1.30pm on January 8.\n\nThe section of wall between Water Tower Gardens and Pemberton's Parlour was sprayed with a tag reading \"Glory\".\n\nPC Jamie Ho, of Chester City Beat Team, said: \"Chester City Walls are a scheduled monument of national importance, as Britain's oldest, longest, and most complete circuit of defensive walls.\n\n\"The local authority works hard to maintain the walls, which attract thousands of people to our city every year, so it’s disappointing to see that some people feel it’s acceptable to spray them with graffiti.\n\n### LATEST FROM THE NORTH WEST:\n\n\n\n\n  * Woman jailed for four years after making 'untrue' rape allegations about 10 men\n  * Pensioner's family rages after ending up in hospital following wrongly-issued parking ticket battle\n  * Irish woman wins £23,000 payout after boss repeatedly shouted 'potato' at her when she entered office\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"Enquiries are ongoing and I would urge anyone with any information in relation to the incident to come forward so the person responsible can be held accountable.\"\n\nThe walls, which are considered to be a World Heritage site, are believed to be over 2,000 years old and build to defend a fort known as Deva Victrix.\n\nThe Roman walls are considered to be the longest and most complete Roman and medieval town walls in Britain.\n\nOriginally constructed between 70 and 80 AD, they were later expanded by the Normans, then further fortified before the Civil War.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe full walls were complete around the 12th century, and almost every section of the walls is Grade I listed.\n\nConservation of the walls has been an ongoing project, with a part of the wall collapsing in 2008.\n\nIn January 2020, another section of wall collapsed while development work was being carried out nearby.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter **",
  "title": "Chester's world-renowned Roman walls vandalised as police condemn 'heritage crime'"
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