A statue of Buddha built for a musical turned out to be so big that a partition wall had to be taken down to get it out of the door.

The 5m (16ft) gold-coloured figure could not be freed from the Drill Hall in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion.

Technicians also realised a normal lorry was too small to get it to the Aberystwyth Arts Centre for the performance of The King and I.

They had to call in a crane to lift it onto a bigger lorry.