Good day to bury bad, or rather embarrassing news:
PLANS for a 25-storey tower in Ealing town centre, designed by Lord Foster, are set to go ahead after the local council approved the scheme and the Mayor signalled support.
The green light for the replacement of the 40-storey “Penny Whistle” design will cast fresh doubts over Boris [...]
Tags: betrayal · planning · reversal · tall
A couple of Boris bits from the latest Eye. First, from Rotten Boroughs:
Boris & Ken
“The trouble we have — and it is one of the few things in politics which makes me almost wild with anger — is the sale of the playing fields, above all the sale of the playing fields in state schools,” [...]
Tags: housing · humour · levelling the playing fields · planning · Private Eye · satire