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1 therefore we could only conclude that the managers are
2 lying or they just do not know what happens in their store,
3 what happens in reality.
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5 He explained how eventually the residents set up an action
6 group to consider legal action over environment/index.html">litter, traffic, noise
7 and cooking smells, and he concluded: I object to environment/index.html">litter
8 in front of my house and in my basement. I do not really
9 see why I should be condemned to environment/index.html">litter for the rest of my
10 life.
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12 I will move on to Professor Ashworth next.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, very well. Two o'clock.
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16 (Luncheon Adjournment)
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, you intimated that some of the topics
19 you may come back to. In relation to the evidence as far
20 as the Kings Road is concerned, you need not come back to
21 that as far as I am concerned unless there is some
22 particular point of detail you want to know, because I am
23 pretty well aware of all the evidence there. I think
24 I have grasped or imagined all the points you might make in
25 relation to that.
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27 MS. STEEL: Can I just say on that one point, that I did say
28 that I did not consider... Well, I went round and timed it
29 and I did not consider it possible ----
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, what I would like you to do, if you
32 can, with an A-Z, just write on one piece of paper the
33 roads you went to. I have not done it yet. I meant to do
34 it in the long vacation. I will go home via it sometime.
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36 MS. STEEL: I did give the exact route as set out when they
37 were giving evidence about it. But I will write it down.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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41 MR. MORRIS: Moving on to Professor Ashworth, director general
42 of the Tidy Britain Group, called by McDonald's. He told
43 us it is an agency which is recognised and funded by the
44 government but is part funded by company sponsorship, and
45 something like £200,000 per annum was received from
46 McDonald's, which we would say meant that obviously not
47 only was he called by McDonald's as a witness, so he should
48 be seen in that light, but he is specifically part of an
49 organisation that has a commercial relationship with
50 McDonald's. In fact, commercial dependency on McDonald's
51 because they specifically sponsored certain activities. If
52 I recall rightly, they were the kind of activities that
53 they were guaranteed to get publicity for themselves.
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55 He said that as a result of the sponsorship McDonald's got
56 the company logo on Tidy Britain Group leaflets. He also
57 pointed out that there were companies such as Coca-Cola,
58 who I think he identified as being another company with
59 very high amounts of products that ended up as environment/index.html">litter, and
60 Shell as well, who had been convicted and fined more than
