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00:00 04 Jul 2001
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Up yours matey
This is just a small part of a picture CJ received this week. It would be unfair of us to reveal which contractor sent this in (name begins with a 'B'), but needless to say the PR rep didn't give the pic the once over with a magnifying glass. What makes this gesture even more shocking is that the project this gentleman is working on is a primary school. So much for Respect for People!
Getting bolshie
Outgoing chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority, Sir Alistair Morton, shocked Radio 4's World at One listeners last week when he used the word 'b*****ks' during an interview. The explosion came when he was asked whether he was a 'lame duck'.
"B*****ks, I won't accept that for a minute," retorted 63-year-old Sir Alistair, who is due to step down from his job next March. Neither did the rail boss apologise for his outburst.
Nothing changes - rail customers are used to getting that kind of treatment.
Faithful feeding
A Bradford businessman has rescued a huge Grade II listed Victorian congregational chapel from dereliction and has turned it into what is believed to be the world's largest Indian restaurant.
The chapel, at Clackheaton, south of Bradford in West Yorkshire, will reopen next month in its new guise as the 850-seat Aakash restaurant.
Surviving members of the congregation have been sent invitations to have a curry and admire the £1.7m restoration.
Pottering about
The term 'public private partnership' has acquired a new meaning at the publicly funded Science Museum. In order to lure the new director, Lindsay Sharp, from his previous job in Canada, the museum agreed to supply his wife, Robyn, with a private pottery studio. Despite the museum's trustees experiencing a cash squeeze, Mrs Sharp has been allocated space in a basement room under the museum's schools entrance. Resentment at this preferential treatment has been somewhat appeased by introducing a 'No ties' regime for male employees. However, it just goes to prove that no trouble is too great to put the (pottery) wheel in motion.
This is just a small part of a picture CJ received this week. It would be unfair of us to reveal which contractor sent this in (name begins with a 'B'), but needless to say the PR rep didn't give the pic the once over with a magnifying glass. What makes this gesture even more shocking is that the project this gentleman is working on is a primary school. So much for Respect for People!
Getting bolshie
Outgoing chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority, Sir Alistair Morton, shocked Radio 4's World at One listeners last week when he used the word 'b*****ks' during an interview. The explosion came when he was asked whether he was a 'lame duck'.
"B*****ks, I won't accept that for a minute," retorted 63-year-old Sir Alistair, who is due to step down from his job next March. Neither did the rail boss apologise for his outburst.
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Nothing changes - rail customers are used to getting that kind of treatment.
Faithful feeding
A Bradford businessman has rescued a huge Grade II listed Victorian congregational chapel from dereliction and has turned it into what is believed to be the world's largest Indian restaurant.
The chapel, at Clackheaton, south of Bradford in West Yorkshire, will reopen next month in its new guise as the 850-seat Aakash restaurant.
Surviving members of the congregation have been sent invitations to have a curry and admire the £1.7m restoration.
Pottering about
The term 'public private partnership' has acquired a new meaning at the publicly funded Science Museum. In order to lure the new director, Lindsay Sharp, from his previous job in Canada, the museum agreed to supply his wife, Robyn, with a private pottery studio. Despite the museum's trustees experiencing a cash squeeze, Mrs Sharp has been allocated space in a basement room under the museum's schools entrance. Resentment at this preferential treatment has been somewhat appeased by introducing a 'No ties' regime for male employees. However, it just goes to prove that no trouble is too great to put the (pottery) wheel in motion.
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