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Related: About this forumLondon 2012: Legal challenge to Olympic missile sites
Council tenants will go to the High Court later over proposals to place surface-to-air missiles on the roof of their tower block during the Olympics.
Residents of Fred Wigg Tower in Leytonstone, east London, will apply for permission for a judicial review.
The tenants say they were not consulted fairly and properly over the plans.
The Ministry of Defence plans to deploy either Rapier or high-velocity missiles at six sites as part of security measures for the London Games.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18765062
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts).... straight out of the Goon Show.
"You dirty rotten swine! You nearly deaded me, you naughty Olympian, you!"
I wish Bluebottle and Eccles every success with their struggle against Major Bloodnok.
(Bemused American cousins, please start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show )
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dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Wigg aka Wiggy no doubt.
When the shows were originally broadcast back in the fifties I used to listen to them using a crystal set with the headphones dismantled - one piece jammed between my ear and a pillow. That would be followed by Radio Luxemburg 'till I fell asleep only to wake up with a cauliflower ear the following morning. I remain fascinated by school friends who recite the entire script the next day but couldn't remember 70 or so geometry theorems.
On a couple of discs I've MP3's of every single Goon Show - the whole 9 years or so.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...pure broadcasting excellence poured from a brandy bottle...
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)Though as Willium doubtless said, "Sorry, mate, Mr Grytpype-Finn says I got to put 'em 'ere. More than me job's worf to put 'em on the 'aase nex' door, mate."
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truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...Here, help yourself to a picture of Queen Victoria...I have plenty more you know...