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| Casualty actor Clive Mantle has part of ear bitten off | Casualty actor Clive Mantle has part of ear bitten off |
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| A former actor in long-running BBC medical drama Casualty has had part of his ear bitten off in Newcastle. | A former actor in long-running BBC medical drama Casualty has had part of his ear bitten off in Newcastle. |
| Clive Mantle, who also stars in US drama Game of Thrones, was attacked at the Travelodge in Foster Street in a dispute over noise, his agent said. The ear has been sewn back on. | |
| The 55-year-old had finished a run in The Ladykillers at the Theatre Royal. | |
| A 32-year-old man from Hamilton in South Lanarkshire has been charged with wounding with intent. | |
| He will appear before magistrates next month following the attack in the early hours of Sunday. | |
| 'Shaken and shocked' | |
| A spokesman for Mr Mantle's agent, London-based Sarahband Associates, said surgeons at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary had managed to sew the top part of the actor's right ear back on. | |
| He said he believed Mr Mantle was attacked in the hotel after asking other guests to keep the noise down. | |
| He said: "He is very shaken and shocked by what has happened, you don't expect this kind of thing to happen in a hotel. | |
| "The part of the ear that was bitten off was found and sewn back on. Mr Mantle said the police, ambulance and hospital staff were amazing." | |
| The Ladykillers finished its run in Newcastle on Saturday. | |
| Another man has been released on bail in connection with the attack and a third man released without charge. |