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00:00 18 Jul 2001
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Money talks
Millionaire Nicholas van Hoogstraten has been fined £15,000 for blocking a footpath on his High Cross estate near Uckfield, East Sussex. Lewes magistrates fined the 54-year-old's company, Rarebargain, the maximum possible fine. In the past Van Hoogstraten claimed he did not want 'riff raff' on his land and branded ramblers "the scum of the earth". With such an endearing attitude towards his fellow men, it is hardly surprising that van Hoogstraten is in dispute with builders over a £30m palace that he is having built to house art treasures and his personal mausoleum. Back bites is tempted to encourage the builders back on to the job if only to ensure van Hoogstraten is bricked up in it.
The heat is on
After thousands of commuters were recently forced to suffer temperatures of nearly 100ûF in stranded underground trains, major of London Ken Livingstone is offering a £10,000 prize to anyone who can dream up a way of cooling down the city's Tube trains. Perhaps a little less hot air over the PPP arguments would go some way to cooling everyone down.
Grave mood
Celebrities in the US are prepared to pay as much as £100,000 for burial plots at the cemetery where the likes of Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood and Walter Matthau are buried. The Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles offers some of the most expensive real estate in the city with plots costing six times the LA average. It just goes to prove that it's not just who you socialise with in life that matters to the rich and famous in America, it is who you hobnob with in death that counts as well.
No date with destiny
Wallis, a division of Kier Group, has offered CJ a "unique opportunity to see and experience the successful refurbishment of the BT Tower Corporate Hosting Suite". The invite continues: "An early response is needed as numbers are restricted." Wallis' phones were soon ringing hot.But only because it forgot to tell guests the date. Oops!
Millionaire Nicholas van Hoogstraten has been fined £15,000 for blocking a footpath on his High Cross estate near Uckfield, East Sussex. Lewes magistrates fined the 54-year-old's company, Rarebargain, the maximum possible fine. In the past Van Hoogstraten claimed he did not want 'riff raff' on his land and branded ramblers "the scum of the earth". With such an endearing attitude towards his fellow men, it is hardly surprising that van Hoogstraten is in dispute with builders over a £30m palace that he is having built to house art treasures and his personal mausoleum. Back bites is tempted to encourage the builders back on to the job if only to ensure van Hoogstraten is bricked up in it.
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The heat is on
After thousands of commuters were recently forced to suffer temperatures of nearly 100ûF in stranded underground trains, major of London Ken Livingstone is offering a £10,000 prize to anyone who can dream up a way of cooling down the city's Tube trains. Perhaps a little less hot air over the PPP arguments would go some way to cooling everyone down.
Grave mood
Celebrities in the US are prepared to pay as much as £100,000 for burial plots at the cemetery where the likes of Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood and Walter Matthau are buried. The Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles offers some of the most expensive real estate in the city with plots costing six times the LA average. It just goes to prove that it's not just who you socialise with in life that matters to the rich and famous in America, it is who you hobnob with in death that counts as well.
No date with destiny
Wallis, a division of Kier Group, has offered CJ a "unique opportunity to see and experience the successful refurbishment of the BT Tower Corporate Hosting Suite". The invite continues: "An early response is needed as numbers are restricted." Wallis' phones were soon ringing hot.But only because it forgot to tell guests the date. Oops!
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