certainly so for lisa and ian, taking a last look today. it s a receptacle of so many memories for so many people. here through generations, looking back at their forebears who have worked here, and i don t know if we can throw all of that away. we re very proud of it at teesside. you go to a boro match and proudly say we built the world. 0ther thanjust singing songs about it, i think we actually need to i think we deserve at least part of it s keeping. the tower would have cost £9 million to maintain, so demolition beckons blown up and brought down early tomorrow morning, ending its life not with a whimper but with a bang. the bbc has refused to comment on reports
archive: a steamer puts out to sea, while on the roadway a stream i of road traffic glides by, and all around is a web of steel spun by the industry of men. the industry of men on teesside, of course, iron, steel and chemicals defined the area. for some, then, demolition seems like a severing of the link with the glorious industrial past certainly so for lisa and ian, taking a last look today. it s a receptacle of so many memories for so many people. here s four generations, looking back at their forebears who have worked here, and i don t know if we can throw all of that away. we re very proud of it at teesside. you go to a boro match and proudly say we built the world. 0ther thanjust singing songs about it, i think we actually need to i think we deserve at least
Bachi Karkaria s Erratica and its cheeky sign-off character, Alec Smart, have had a growing league of followers since 1994 when the column began in the Metropolis on Saturday. It now appears on the Edit Page of the Times of India, every Thursday. It takes a sly dig at whatever has inflated political/celebrity egos, and got public knickers in a twist that week. It makes you chuckle, think and marvel at the elasticity of the English language. Bachi Karkaria also writes Giving Gyan in the Mumbai Mirror, and its fellow publications in other cities. It is a shooting-from-the-lip advice column to the lovelorn and otherwise torn, telling them to stop cribbing and start living all in her her branded pithy, witty style. LESS. MORE