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Allison Schardin faces up to eight months behind bars for molesting the two 15 year-old boys while vacationing with her husband and two young sons.

Walsall Council, which is aiming to save £20m this year and has raised council tax by 4.99 per cent, spent a whopping £35,000 on the sculptures. People criticised the Council's decision to spend a five-figure sum on the installation incorporating water bowls for dogs. One woman on Facebook wrote: 'I could perhaps understand a statue of the late Queen, but her dogs? Spending on anything like this when services are being cut is ridiculous.' And its not the first time that Royal statues have faced criticism. Here, MailOnline has put together a round up of some other monuments that have split public opinion.

The £35,000 artwork, which feature water bowls at the base of the cast metal dogs' plinths, were revealed at Walsall Arboretum as it celebrates its 150th anniversary. But the 4.5ft high, 5ft-long sculptures have set tongues rather than tails wagging, with some people criticising Walsall Council over its decision to spend a five-figure sum on the installation. The authority is aiming to save £20m this year and has raised council tax by 4.99 per cent.

Mary Lou Falcone [pictured] never saw her husband's dementia diagnosis coming. Nicky Zann [pictured], a celebrated illustrator, dealt with paranoia, hallucinations, and severe tremors. Nicky was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia as well as signs of Parkinson's.

In her extremely honest new memoir, Over the Influence, former child star JoJo, now 33, spoke in detail about the demons that she battled in secret. She recounted how she descended on a downward spiral that saw her turn to alcohol and drugs to combat the years she spent feeling like she didn't belong despite her booming career.

A 13-foot-high bronze sculpture of Prince Philip in Cambridge described as 'possibly the poorest quality work' submitted must be removed after planning bosses refused permission. The £150,000 bronze sculpture of The Don, which was described as having a 'harmful material impact' on the area, appeared in the city one morning without any prior warning to residents. Now the planning inspectorate has ruled 'The Don' must be removed from its post on the corner of Hills Road and Norwich Street in a ruling that brought a months'-long planning battle to an end.

A bronze sculpture that was meant to depict Queen Elizabeth II had a grand unveiling - but triggered outrage and attracted mockery from locals. The controversial statue created by Anto Brennan was unveiled in Antrim Castle Gardens on the weekend. However, comments on a Facebook post announcing the sculpture have been turned off after a slew of mocking remarks - with one person saying the Queen looked more like Mrs Doubtfire from the 1993 comedy starring Robin Williams. It's not the first statue to be proudly shown off by the artist just for shocked onlookers to demand it be torn down.

A bronze sculpture meant to depict Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and two corgis (left) has triggered outrage as the public insists it looks nothing like them. The controversial statue was created by north Belfast artist Anto Brennan - known for his chess sets of prominent Northern Irish political figures - and it was unveiled in Antrim Castle Gardens on Saturday. But locals hit out at the art piece, with one saying 'Whoever signed that off needs their eyes tested'. Others said the Prince and dogs 'look nice' but the figure meant to be the late Queen doesn't look like her and there's 'something not right' about it. Comments on the post announcing the sculpture have been turned off after a flood of mocking remarks - with one person saying she looked more like Mrs Doubtfire from the 1993 comedy starring Robin Williams.

The lewd jokes subtly referenced in classic kids' shows and movies

Despite being marketed towards children, many kids films and TV shows have had a long tradition of sneaking in references aimed for their more adult viewers. One of the things that comes with growing older is starting to catch on to the more outrageous or X-rated jokes, that once would have been missed. As people look back on their favourite movies and series from their youth, many have begun to understand quips that previously went over their heads. MailOnline has looked back on some of the most memorable adult-only references - how many did you spot?

The first trailer for the highly anticipated documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story was released on Monday. It is a new film that looks at the movie star's 1995 equestrian accident left him paralyzed and how he subsequently used that setback to help others. Sadly, the American icon died in 2004 at age 52.

In the 1997 Robin Williams flick, Flubber (pictured left), an absent-minded professor creates a sentient ball of goo with incredible capabilities. Now, more than 25 years later, scientists have made a surprising discovery that could bring Flubber into the real world. Researchers from the University of Reading have created a non-living 'hydrogel brain' which is capable of playing the video game Pong (pictured bottom right). Using a plate of electrodes (pictured top right) hooked up to the classic game, the water-based jelly even managed to get 10 per cent better as it practised.

Robin Williams' daughter Zelda, 35, had some words about a viral photo of her father with a monkey on his shoulder.  The snap was originally shared on X (formerly Twitter) which claimed in the caption that the snap captured Robin with his 'pet monkey' several days before his death.  Zelda saw red when the user erroneously called the monkey that was his co-star in A Night at the Museum his 'pet'. 

He's covered every Olympics since Moscow in 1980 and is known worldwide as the voice of the sport he loves - and now Phil Liggett has delivered a message that left him highly emotional.

ITV has snapped up two huge Disney shows in a landmark streaming deal, it was revealed on Thursday. The channel is taking on Netflix and iPlayer with star-studded crime thrillers by licensing Welcome to Chippendales and Culprits from Disney Entertainment.  Both series will stream on ITVX later this year so fans will be able to get stuck into the shows without paying for Disney+, reports TV Zone. 

Researchers have connected actor Robin Williams, fashion icon Kate Spade and travel writer Anthony Bourdain's deaths to a rise in suicide rates among Americans. Following Williams' death in 2014, there was a thousand-fold increase in suicides, 32 percent were committed the same way.

Lara Flynn Boyle revealed she only found out she was cut from one of Robin Williams ' highest-grossing films after watching the movie with her mother, Sally. While recalling the moment she realized her scene had not made it into the the 1989 drama, Dead Poets Society, the Twin Peaks star, 54, admitted she was 'crushed.' Despite having a 'fantastic' time shooting with the cast in Delaware for a month, the Emmy nominee said she was never informed that her performance didn't make the movie's final version. 'I wasn't in the movie. I'm watching Dead Poets Society with my mom, and I kept [going], "Here comes my scene, here comes my scene." No scene, no scene,' Boyle told People.

When you think of depression , you probably think of someone stuck in bed all day, looking sad. But that's not the only way that depression manifests. In fact, those symptoms of depression are way more common in women than men, Olesya Luraschi, a leadership and high performance coach educated at Harvard, said. Male depression usually 'looks completely different' from female depression, she said in a TikTok with over 5million views.

Shelby Hewitt (pictured left), also known as 'Ellie Blake', 13, and 'Daniella Blake Herrerra', 16, conned her way into three high schools and a treatment center, even tricking a therapist and her partner into becoming her foster parents. Students who bullied her for looking like she was in her 30s - including taunts that 'white cracks early' - were disciplined, even though an investigation found they were right all along. New information has come out about someone who had access to Hewitt's innermost thoughts and feelings: her therapist, Rebecca Bernat (pictured right).

Researchers have discovered a link between common prostate medication and a lowered risk of dementia with Lewy bodies the same form of the condition comedian Robin Williams had.

As you approach the small town of Green Bank in West Virginia , signs warn that you are entering the 'Quiet Zone' - an area where cellphones and Wi-Fi are banned. It's one of the few places on Earth where people are not connected 24 hours a day, and has become a Mecca for people tired of the modern world and 'electrosensitive' folks who believe they suffer symptoms caused by Wi-Fi and cellphones. The reason for the 'silence', electronically speaking, is the enormous satellite dishes at Green Bank, West Virginia , which include the largest steerable radio telescope in the world, the Robert C Byrd Green Bank Telescope.

This Emmy winning star has worked with Ted Danson and Kelsey Grammer. And she also had a sizable role opposite Robin Williams in the original Jumanji movie. This dark haired actress has the acting chops as she has won raves for decades in theater. She has received two Tony Awards and a Drama Desk Award.

Matthew Lawrence doesn't believe the Mrs. Doubtfire film can be rebooted without his co-star, the late Robin Williams.  Williams, who died at age 63 by suicide in 2014, famously portrayed a newly-divorced father who disguises himself as a nanny in an attempt to spend more time with his children in the iconic film.  The Brotherly Love star told TMZ he didn't think a reboot of the original 1993 was 'possible' without Williams.  

Robin Williams' on-screen daughter Lisa Jakub revealed that the late actor defended her after she was expelled from high school while filming Mrs. Doubtfire in 1993. The actress, 45, shared that Williams had noticed she was upset and when she told him her school kicked her out he personally wrote a letter to her principal.  'I got thrown out of high school on Doubtfire,' Jakub said while appearing on a Mrs. Doubtfire reunion episode with her movie siblings Mara Wilson and Matthew Lawrence, on Lawrence's Brotherly Love podcast.