“Road Like Those in Beirut”
I had told Elizabeth Diffin of the BBC Online Service that you don’t here people say “it looks like Baghdad”; apparently I was wrong:
Many roads in Tiverton are so potholed, they are ‘more like those in Baghdad or Beirut’ – a former town Mayor claimed this week.
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Tiverton town and Mid Devon district [...]
“This was like little Beirut”
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Guildford Street in Grimsby, UK:
A street in a North East Lincolnshire town which has been the scene of arson, drug dealing and violence for years is to be pulled down.
All fair and well, right? Well let’s see what one resident had to say to the BBC about the area he [...]
Robbie Savage Contemplated Playing in Beirut
In an article found in the UK’s The Sun, the newspaper interviews professional footballer, Robbie Savage. Now here’s what the article had to say about his hard times in 2008:
…last season, Savage thought his career was over. He could not get into the Derby first team, was loaned out to Brighton and actually considered [...]
We’ve Got a LLB Convert #4
I found this email this morning, it was originally sent on January 21st (when you go on leave for two weeks and fail to check your email, things are bound to take time to sort out). Adam Gabbatt blogs for guardian.co.uk and I had sent him a “Looks Like Beirut” Certificate for his post comparing [...]
“Kirkby residents back ‘Beirut’ demolition plan”
Wow! With two “Looks Like Beirut Certificate” responders this week (Mayank & Steven), it is only fitting that we have two new “Looks Like Beirut” cliche-ers: Tony Bank and now UK Journalist Catherine Allen.
Householders have thrown their weight behind plans to demolish houses on Kirkby’s trouble-hit Warwick Close — although some fear anti-social behaviour will [...]
