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The Londown Christmas Quiz Special

Open City

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City Hall, Built 1999 by Norman Foster, Will Soon Be Vacated

The city hall, built 19 99 by norman foster, will soon be vacated. I think the twentieth century society a campaign all ready to save it. We don't actually own it, but it's just so embarrassing, isn't it? That we're one of the wealthiest cities on earth, in one of the richest countries on earth, and we don't even own our own city because we were too cheap to build ourselves. And so we did a kind of dodgy p f i contract that has la link that, you know, had had, had the taxpayer on the hook for years, paying out this this kind of enormous rent. And now we're having to evict ourselves to

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