can to make sure she is ready to go back on display at our Farewell Event at Worcester Cathedral between 4-7 October," they said.

Police said several items of clothing were missing and that investigations were ongoing.

"The St Richards - Worcester Stands Tall project has been a great addition to Worcester during the summer, attracting lots of tourists and people to follow the trail," safer neighbourhood inspector Tanya Beckett said.

"We would encourage people to enjoy the giraffe sculptors throughout the city, whilst remembering they are planned to be auctioned off to raise funds for the Worcester based hospice charity later this month."

The burglary is not the first time the sculpture trail fell victim to less benevolent influences.

Last week organisers were forced to move one sculpture, Arthur the Giraffa inPyongyang is behind hacking attacks on South Korea's crypto-currency exchanges which resulted in the theft of at least $7 million worth of digital money, says the South's National Intelligence Service.

According to a report published by the state-run BBC on Saturday, the value of the stolen crypto-currencies has now increased to around $82.7 million.

During the attacks, which were mostly in February, the personal information of some 30,000 people was also stolen from the Bithumb crypto-currency exchange, which trades in Ethereum and Bitcoin.

Bitcoin -- which came into being in 2009 as a bit of encrypted software with no central bank backing it -- has risen from a 2017 low of $752 in mid-January, and surged dramatically in the past month to over $19,000.

The South's intelligence service has noted that Pyongyang