PM’s Spitfire support (From Daily Echo)
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PM’s Spitfire support
11:25am Tuesday 24th February 2009 in
Gordon Brown yesterday renewed his support for a monument to the Spitfire in Southampton.
He said he was delighted with the progress towards a memorial for the iconic fighter plane, which first took to the skies over Southampton.
Mr Brown said he had been proud to host a Downing Street reception with city MPs John Denham and Alan Whitehead commemorating the aircraft’s history. He told a gathering of invited businessmen, public sector workers and community leaders: “I’m incredibly pleased you have chosen a site where there will be a proper memorial to the Spitfire and everything that it achieved.”
Mr Brown has previously lent his backing to the Daily Echo-supported campaign for a monument to be built.
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The Kiwi says...
4:21pm Wed 25 Feb 09
It is a vulgar example of the modern school of thought.
The artististic interpretations reveal that it will be a ghastly visual invasion of the local scenery on par with the stupid so called Wind Generators with their huge ungainly propellors they mistakenly refer to as Turbines