An enormous AI-generated mural displayed on the wall of a pub in Banksy’s home city of Bristol has been removed after residents highlighted a string of obvious mistakes in the design.

The giant vinyl poster appeared on the Jolly Colliers pub in Bedminster, offering an inaccurate digital tour of Bristol’s best-known landmarks.

Among the artwork’s most notable errors was the SS Great Britain, which resembled a riverboat, while the Clifton Suspension Bridge was shown with an incorrect one-way traffic arrangement. The mural also featured a huge viaduct that does not exist.

The depiction of Cabot Tower was also wrong. Meanwhile, the colourful houses shown on the west side of Clifton Suspension Bridge are actually in Cliftonwood, on the opposite side of the city and overlooking Bristol harbour.

The AI design appeared to reference Banksy’s famous Bristol mural The Mild Mild West. However, instead of the well-known teddy bear throwing a petrol bomb, it showed a one-legged figure pointing.

The inaccuracies prompted an angry response from local residents, who appear to have taken matters into their own hands by tearing down the poster.

Images taken later showed the AI mural had been pulled from the pub’s side wall, leaving the Jolly Colliers without the controversial display.

The mural had triggered a fierce backlash among Bristol’s art community, particularly in the city associated with the internationally recognised street artist Banksy.

Banksy, known for his distinctive stencilled spray-paint works, has achieved global recognition since emerging on the British art scene in the 1990s.

His politically charged pieces have addressed issues including British politics and society. Some have sold for tens of millions of pounds, cementing his status as one of the art world’s most influential figures.

The artist has consistently operated under a pseudonym, leading to years of speculation about his identity. Among those linked to the name Banksy is Robert Del Naja, a member of the band Massive Attack.

In 2008, The Mail on Sunday reported that Banksy was Robin Gunningham, who was born in Bristol in 1973.

The design appeared to have been printed onto a large sheet of vinyl before being fixed to the building.

Given Bristol’s international reputation for street art—and its strong connection to artists such as Banksy—the AI-generated mural quickly attracted attention.

Caroline Maggs, of the Bristol Mural Collective (BMC), told Bristol 24/7: “AI designs not only devalue but undermine the work of artists.”

She said the collective was “saddened and angered” that the Jolly Colliers had not chosen to support handmade artwork, adding: “We are small businesses, and as a small business themselves, they should have chosen better.”

‘In a climate where humans are being replaced by AI at an alarming rate, choosing art like this is not only an aesthetic choice but a political one.’

Ms Maggs said that having no mural on the pub would have been a better choice than the AI art. 

She added that the collective was open to discussions with the Jolly Colliers and would like to commission someone from the collective to ‘rectify their mistake’. 

On Tuesday, a letter from an unknown artist condemning the AI art had been placed below the mural, but it was swiftly removed.

The letter called the decision to erect the mural ‘a disrespectful affront to this city’.

It wrote: ‘I am not alone in this opinion. Your decisions have angered a large portion of the very community you supposedly wish to support and exist alongside.’ 

While it was not signed by anybody, the writer acknowledged Bristol’s reputation for creativity and hosting Upfest, Europe’s largest street art festival. 

The letter said: ‘Hundreds of murals exist across the city, created by truly talented individuals, with passion, hard-earned skill and dedication.

‘By choosing to ‘create’ (though that word gives more credit than is due) an AI generated image, produce it in vinyl and stick it to the side of your building, you are actively damaging the livelihoods of artists, disrespecting and contributing to the theft of their work, and making a mockery of what makes Bristol the city it is.

‘You have watered down the spirit, the originality and the very essence of the visual aesthetic you have tried, and failed, to recreate.’

Emily Tuffen, also an artist from BMC, said the mural was a ‘slap in the face’ to Bristol, adding that ‘Brunel would be turning in his grave’ over the piece.

Ms Tuffen said the mural was a ‘very large, very public display of something that is fast becoming a very clear and real threat to the existence of humanity’.

Several other artists from the BMC also criticised the artwork. Nina Raines called the work ‘visually naff,’ while Fiona Finn Teo described it as ‘an appalling and tone-deaf display of absolute nonchalance and disregard to artists residing in Bristol and beyond’. 

Tuffen added: ‘The mural is like a giant green light telling all of south Bristol (and anyone who views it online) – AI is fine, let’s jump in feet first!

‘Tally ho! I don’t think it will last long, one way or the other. Bristol won’t stand for it.

‘On a personal level, I would be so happy if someone circled all the mistakes in red paint like a teacher or a spot the difference puzzle. That would make it actually a good street art piece and a clear statement.

‘Bristol loves authentic creativity and won’t stand for intellectual property theft! It wouldn’t cost the proprietors too much if they wanted THAT commissioned!’

A spokesperson from Punch, who own the Bedminster pub, said the mural had been a ‘temporary measure due to the condition of the external wall’ and that they were looking forward to collaborating with local artists and the community in the near future for a permanent mural. 

In a statement, the spokesperson added: ‘The external wall requires some minor works which would make a permanent mural at this time difficult, so we had opted for a temporary solution.’ 

John DeBacker doesn’t need a mask or cape to be considered a hero by one Long Island family.

Wearing his “Catman” T-shirt, DeBacker carried out a delicate rescue mission to save Lola, a frightened and exhausted cat that had been trapped behind a wall in her family’s former home in the New York City suburbs for roughly five days—likely upside down for much of that time.

Lola’s ordeal began about two weeks before she was rescued, when she slipped beneath a floorboard as her family moved out of their second-floor apartment in Franklin Square.

That was when the family called DeBacker and his team for help.

DeBacker, who has rescued cats for at least 15 years, initially placed food and cameras inside a trap to coax Lola out. But whenever she emerged at night, she avoided the setup.

The situation grew more desperate when Lola stopped appearing altogether. She had fallen and become trapped behind a wall on the first floor.

By the time rescuers located her, Lola was hanging upside down, eating insulation and growing weaker by the hour. DeBacker feared they might not be able to save her alive.

Their prospects changed last Friday. With assistance from a contractor, the team began cutting into the wall with an electric saw and used an endoscopic camera to locate Lola.

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Because the frightened cat appeared nervous, rescuers switched to a quieter drill to keep her from scrambling farther into the wall.

“After two weeks we did not want to lose the cat again,” he said.

Video from the rescue shows DeBacker reaching through the narrow opening and finding Lola’s hind legs. He then stood up, shifted his weight backward and gently pulled the cat out in reverse.

“Safe!” a woman says in the video as the dusty, exhausted cat is placed inside a crate lined with towels.

After Lola was finally freed, DeBacker called the moment the greatest feeling in the world.

“We were all so happy,” he said.

“It’s pretty miraculous that the cat survived there five days with no food or water,” DeBacker said. “And when you’re upside-down, all the blood is rushing to your head.”

Lola was rushed to an emergency veterinarian, where doctors found insulation in her body, DeBacker said. She has since returned home, though she is eating poorly. Her family continues to take her to the vet as they work to determine what is wrong.

DeBacker, who has four cats of his own, urged other pet owners to take extra precautions when moving. “Secure the cats first and not after all the moving. The moving will scare the cat into hiding,” he said.

The Ohio murder trial of former “American Idol” contestant and music pastor Caleb Flynn continued Thursday with testimony from the woman who had been having an affair with him.

Alleigha Botner, 24, completed two days on the witness stand by discussing the more than 100,000 text messages she and Flynn, 40, exchanged before his wife, Ashley Flynn, was killed.

Prosecutors allege Flynn shot Ashley twice in the back of the head as she slept in their Tipp City, Ohio, home on Feb. 16. They say he then staged the scene to look like a burglary and called 911, claiming an intruder had committed the killing. The weapon has not been found. Flynn maintains that he was in another room when his wife was murdered.

Flynn also faces charges of tampering with evidence and intimidating a witness. The former season 12 “American Idol” contestant has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys argue that investigators rushed to blame him and that intense media coverage has distorted the case.

Botner described an approximately 18-month sexual relationship with Flynn, whom she met while interning at his church. She testified about efforts to conceal their communications, acknowledged initially lying to the FBI and explained that she lost her phone and work laptop only weeks before Ashley Flynn’s death. Asked how she feels about Flynn now, Botner replied, “I hate him.”

Botner said Flynn frequently made hostile remarks about his wife. In one text dated Aug. 22, 2025, introduced in court Thursday, Flynn wrote that he had remained awake until 4 a.m. “thinking of ways to kill her and not going to jail.” Botner urged him to pursue a divorce instead.

“I’m not asking that you take her life, obviously, because that’s not what you should do, and I know you actually wouldn’t,” Botner wrote. “But to make the divorce happen, it would change everything.”

Botner first spoke with the FBI four days after Ashley Flynn’s death, after investigators contacted her following a tip from her aunt.

During her initial interview, Botner said she did not believe Flynn had killed his wife. In a second interview, however, she told agents that she did believe he was responsible, saying the circumstances were “way too much of a coincidence,” she testified Thursday.

Under questioning, Botner acknowledged that she sometimes doubted whether Flynn truly hated his wife, pointing to affectionate messages exchanged by the couple. She said she believed she had fallen in love with Flynn about a year into their affair and resented Ashley for the attention Flynn gave her, including during an argument around Valentine’s Day.

Prosecutors played a video in court Wednesday showing Flynn filming the home he shared with Ashley while declaring loudly, “I love Alleigha Botner.” Their dog was visible in the frame.

In a Sept. 30, 2025, text, Flynn told Botner he was prepared to give up his “daughters, a quarter-million-dollar salary job, a place to live, possibly a church I serve at, public shame and humiliation, and way more” to be with her. He then sarcastically described unfollowing a man on social media as a “big sacrifice” and asked Botner to do the same.

Botner also issued ultimatums, insisting that Flynn leave his wife. In one message, she wrote, “Until she’s gone, I’m gone.”

During cross-examination by defense attorneys, Botner said she had always meant that Flynn should divorce Ashley when she used that language.

The day before Ashley Flynn was discovered dead, Flynn sent Botner several messages saying he planned to leave his wife the following day and was “not scared.”

Prosecutors also presented messages Botner sent Flynn on the morning of the shooting. “Caleb, what’s going on? Were you involved? Is this real?” she wrote. Flynn did not reply. Botner testified that she deleted the message because she feared police would search his phone and discover the affair.

Later that day, at a gathering for members of Flynn’s church hosted by his in-laws, Flynn told Botner that his wife had been shot by an intruder.

“My heart started pounding, and in my mind, it just seemed like too much of a coincident that, the day he’s divorcing her, she’s just dead all of a sudden,” Botner testified Wednesday about learning of Ashley Flynn’s death.

The trial is scheduled to continue Friday.