A Gold Medal for Stupidity ; Costs for the London Olympics Are Reaching Lunatic Levels - but Perhaps the Highest Price Is Being Paid by a Small Band of Gardeners Whose Historic Allotments Needlessly Face the Bulldozers
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OFTEN the broader picture obscures the telling detail. The true cost of the 2012 London Olympics is not to be measured in the multibillions now quoted by the organisers, spiralling almost daily into sums so vast that they are impossible to grasp.
What the stratospheric figures do not disclose is the human cost, the pain and damage to the lives of people who find themselves, by unhappy chance, in the path of this careering, uncontrollable juggernaut, and finally crushed by it.See the full content of this document
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A Gold Medal for Stupidity ; Costs for the London Olympics Are Reaching Lunatic Levels - but Perhaps the Highest Price Is Being Paid by a Small Band of Gardeners Whose Historic Allotments Needlessly Face the Bulldozers
Among them are the men and women who spend their weekends nurturing their vegetables on the Manor Gardens allotments in the Lea Valley. In a month's time, the 75 plot-holders will be ejected from their site. Soil that they have been tilling for years - and, in a few cases that their fathers tilled before them - will go under the bulldozer, after a
compulsory purchase order, along with the other remnants of their consuming passion.Despite a promise th...See the full content of this document