10/06/2009 by admin.

Very amusing piece on BBC news about their discovery that an MP was being paid by the Caravan Club and asking questions about caravans and the Olympics.

It was a long piece and they had got somebody to drive a Jeep across Westminster Bridge so they could get the House in the background. There must have been a convenient turnaround somewhere because the same car and carvan drove past about six times!

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10/06/2009 by admin.

Another train driver has just escaped with his life when a swamp dweller dropped a block of concrete from a bridge. Let’s hope he is caught and put away for attempted murder.

It reminds me of something the great Lew Adams once said: “When I was a train driver, boys ysed to stand on the embankments and wave. Now they throw stones.”

How sad is that?

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10/06/2009 by admin.

I took the government’s Station Champion, Chris Green, out to lunch yesterday. Her was full of p[raise for Piccadilly. Then I showed him Victoria and he reckoned it was THE worst major station he had seen.

Just a year ago, I agreed not to reveal the detailed plans for redevelopment because they were so commercially sensitive.

So commercially sensitive, in fact, that they have now been abandoned.

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