The media is reporting that renovation work on the Birdcage bandstand on Brighton seafront has finally completed and the bandstand is now open. The BBC claimed that the renovation work cost around £ 1,000,000.
Birdcage Bandstand
I checked it out on Saturday afternoon and looks pretty good but the new tiled floor is falling to bits already. The grouting is just falling out.
Birdcage Bandstand
Birdcage Bandstand
Last week was an interesting week, if my photos are anything to go by. On Monday, while driving back from work, I got an excellent picture of St. Margaret’s Church near Chipstead. Admittedly there was a burnt out car obstructing the view but you can’t have everything and you have to expect things in such an urban setting.
Burnt Out Car
Alfa Poppies
Then on Wednesday morning I stopped off while driving over the South Downs near Devils Dyke to take a picture of my beautiful Alfa Romeo GT.
Some might call it a mess of ugly weeds but I prefer to see a profusion of scarlet.
Friday found me in Islington and a reasonable picture of two women in front of a door.
Islington Women
Escalator
This is a video of a guy trapped in an elevator. It’s scary. It made me wonder what I would do. The nearest I’ve had to this was being stuck at an airport for about seven hours with for or drink and only cheap plastic chairs to sit on. That was bad enough.
I’ve thought before about taking photos of someone from when they are born to when they die. A big project and maybe it’s a bit late for me to start.
It seems that other people have had similar ideas.
There was a good article in The Times Online listing Gordon Brown’s 10 worst financial gaffes.
They list more than enough to give the lie to Brown’s ludicrous claim of some kind of fiscal expertise.
1. Taxing dividend payments
2. Selling our gold
3. Tripartite financial regulation
4. Tax credits
5. The £10,000 corporation tax threshold
6. Abolition of the 10p tax rate
7. Failing to spot the housing bubble
8. 50 per cent tax rate
9. Cutting VAT
10. Public-sector borrowing
Read the full article here
http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2009/06/gordons-10-worst-financial-gaffs.html
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Woman ‘detained’ for filming police search launches high court challenge
Tags: anti-terrorism, ‘detainedby police, filed on mobile phone, filing the police, filming police, Guardian, high court challenge, newspaper, police harassment, random searches, sniffer dogs
An article in today’s Guardian newspaper details another incident where police use the anti-terrorism powers to harass innocent people. In this case a team of police with sniffer dogs are working at a tube station, a man is searched and the girl friend films the incident on her mobile phone and is then handcuffed. It sounds like the police not only misuse their powers by hand cuffing the woman but are also overstepping their powers by performing random searches for drugs.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/21/police-search-mobile-phone-court
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