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Typical, the Brits are stoned again
00:00 27 Apr 1995
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Ooh la la. Ou sont les stonemasons when you need them?
Our old friends at Farmington Stone, having spent last year fighting for the right to call their product Bath stone - although they are based in Cheltenham - found themselves with a new headache on their hands.
With orders booming they needed to recruit new stonemasons and couldn't find enough in the area.
Well, it seems that this traditional English skill is now to be carried out by the French who are being shipped over to Gloucestershire, trained in the language and set to work for three years.
What next, French cricket players? French Beefeaters at the Tower of London...?
Our old friends at Farmington Stone, having spent last year fighting for the right to call their product Bath stone - although they are based in Cheltenham - found themselves with a new headache on their hands.
With orders booming they needed to recruit new stonemasons and couldn't find enough in the area.
Well, it seems that this traditional English skill is now to be carried out by the French who are being shipped over to Gloucestershire, trained in the language and set to work for three years.
What next, French cricket players? French Beefeaters at the Tower of London...?
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