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In front of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and the John Lewis store is a statue of Donald Dewar, the first First Minister following the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1997.

Soon after Dewar's death on 11 October 2000, the Scottish sculptor Kenny Mackay was commissioned by the Scottish parliament to create a 9ft (3m) bronze statue of Dewar, cast by Powderhall Bronze, for erecting on a stepped, circular pedestal in Buchanan Street, opposite the steps of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. The statue was unveiled on 7 May 2002, by the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. In October 2005, the statue was removed for restoration after spates of vandalism had resulted in damage to Dewar's prominent spectacles and the statue had become a regular target for 'coning' (crowning a statue with a traffic cone). After being cleaned and repaired by CBC Stone and its original founders in Edinburgh, the statue was returned to Glasgow in December 2005 and placed on a 2m tall, cylindrical pedestal of polished Balmoral red granite, which is intended to prevent vandals from climbing up to the statue itself. Link