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Home guru Alison Cork is appealing for her 'majestic' and elegant' £10,000 life-sized bronze stag to be returned after it was snatched from outside her Knightsbridge home.
The stag affectionately named 'Henry' had become a landmark for London cabbies and was loved by tourists and locals alike.
The 60-year-old - who was awarded an MBE for services to female entrepreneurship in 2023 - said the ordeal had left her feeling 'very vulnerable' and that she had lost faith in the police and 'lawless London'.
Alison told MailOnline: 'When we moved in 20 years ago, I decided the street didn't need another urn in the front garden and I thought I'd do something fun and different.
'So I bought a life-sized bronze stag and called him Henry. He was so loved by the community and it was a great way of breaking the ice with the locals.
Home guru Alison Cork (pictured) is appealing for her 'majestic' and elegant' £10,000 life-sized bronze stag to be returned after it was snatched from outside her Knightsbridge home
The stag affectionately named 'Henry' had become a landmark for London cabbies and was loved by tourists and locals alike
'He unofficially became part of the London cabbie knowledge - everyone loved him.
'Tens of thousands of tourists have taken photos with him. I even designed the front of the house to look like a Scottish mountainside with stone chippings.'
But Alison woke up on Sunday morning to find that the 60kg statue had been stolen from outside her home.
The home interiors expert and TV star said: 'I couldn't believe my eyes. As you can imagine he's been there for 20 years and then all of a sudden he's just not.
'But the sad thing is, this is not uncommon anymore in central London.
'When we moved here 20 years ago I never had any qualms as a woman walking
