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A tale of two cities
From Whitehall incompetence to bucolic English tweeness, this local government story from today's Guardian basically contains all my favourite things.It turns out that officials at the Department for Communities gave £2.7m to the wrong town after getting their Newcastles muddled up. The cash went to the little borough of Newcastle Under Lyme rather than the somewhat larger Newcastle upon Tyne.Ooops.Now the leader of one Newcastle is demanding more money, and the leader of the other is...
from : simonparker
14th February 2008
