A life-size bronze statue of comedy character Frank Sidebottom has been unveiled in his hometown of Timperley in Greater Manchester. The character with a huge papier mache head was the alter-ego ...

The statue, paid for by donations from fans, will be installed in Timperley, Greater Manchester in the autumn. Neil Taylor, chair of the Frank Sidebottom Statue appeal, said the process of ...

Immortalising Frank's thumbs up ... Fans of comic creation Frank Sidebottom have been approached by a professional sculptor to create a memorial statue in Timperley, Greater Manchester.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of Timperley to pay tribute to the town's most famous paper mache star. Over 1,000 people clapped and cheered as a bronze statue of funnyman Frank Sidebottom ...

Councillor Neil Taylor, told the ManchesterEveningNews.co.uk: "It's going to put Timperley on the map. From now on people are going to come here to see the statue and once the film of Frank is made.

Their devotion continued with campaigns to raise a slightly surreal statue of Sidebottom in leafy Timperley and to fund the Being Frank documentary. Today, fans and friends insist Sidebottom was ...

Plans have been submitted for a life-size bronze statue of Frank Sidebottom. Frank fans want to erect a 1.8m statue with a coloured head in his home village of Timperley. The statue in a classic ...

Frank Sidebottom fans filled the streets of his native Timperley today, as the a statue to comedian and musician was unveiled. It marks the culmination of a grassroots campaign that raised £60,000 to ...

Chris Sievey, who created the comedy character Frank Sidebottom, is to be honoured with a bronze statue in Timperley in Cheshire.

Working-class and born in Timperley (now a pilgrimage site with Frank statue), he drank too much, worked too much, and sometimes went off-radar. His partners, one divorced before Sievey fell ill ...

Steve Sullivan's 'Being Frank' introduces the restlessly creative artist behind British cult favorite Frank Sidebottom ... Frank became a fixture in little Timperley, the town where Sievey ...