A Cardiff Landmark

As well as perching gulls and pigeons, John Batchelor often has a traffic cone on his head or a drink can in his hand.

Batchelor was a Victorian politician and businessman in Cardiff. After his death his sons brought a libel action against former rivals of their father who published scurrilous articles about him.

They lost what was a landmark case in law that established the principle, which still stands, that a dead person cannot be libelled.