Fruity Buddha turned around

The owner of an art gallery has been asked to turn around a sculpture of Buddha with comical genitalia after complaints from people passing by.

The bronze statue is on display in the window of the St Giles Street Gallery, Norwich, and has testicles and a penis in the shape of eggs and a banana.

Gallery owner David Koppel has agreed to turn Colin Self's £125,000 sculpture, so the front is not on view.

Buddhists said the statue was in poor taste, but welcomed the compromise.

Norfolk Police's hate crime unit has looked into the complaints, and suggested the sculpture was turned so its back was on view from the outside of the gallery's front window.