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Hunting for Banksy from the air

By Martin Booth  Friday Jul 5, 2019

A small plane flew across Bristol on Friday morning on the hunt for the city’s most elusive graffiti artist.

Tied behind the plane was a banner with the words, ‘R U Banksy? Don’t call 07…..’

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The plane flew over Totterdown towards the city centre and then on towards Fishponds.

An ITV News journalist this week unearthed previously forgotten footage of an artist going by the name of Banksy painting at an exhibition in London .

Main photo by Alex Hendrie

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