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Times & Star UU utterly Selfish
Times & StarThen there is the sheer vandalism of felling all the youthfully mature trees of Woodland Avenue that both delight Maryport residents and provide an attractive route into the town for visitors.
The excuse of not inconveniencing motorists by some temporary road restrictions is wholly unconvincing. That could probably have been avoided by using some effort and imagination another way.
If not, what is temporary inconvenience compared with perpetuating indefinitely the 40 years’ attractiveness as the trees matured?
Such destruction of a permanent joy for a purely transitory advantage is utterly selfish laziness on United Utilities’ part that dubious promises of future landscaping do nothing to justify.
And those who gave permission deserve equal censure with UU for this wickedness.
Even that modern mantra for joined-up thinking cannot answer such a baleful bundle of examples devoid of any real thought at all.
Extremely angry over ‘unnecessary’ tree felling
Last updated 19:51, Thursday, 04 September 2008
Balfour scoops £46m museum makeover
Balfour scoops £46m museum makeover
04 Sep 2008
Balfour Beatty has taken a £46.4m deal to revamp the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Work starts this month on creating 14 new galleries, two hands-on discovery centres, a new exhibition gallery, education facilities, and a learning centre.
A whole new floor will be built beneath the main hall, forming a new street-level entrance, shops, a restaurant and a reception area.
