Day 292 - 01 Nov 96 - Page 30


     
     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.
     4
     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.
    11
    12        I will move on to Professor Ashworth next.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, very well.  Two o'clock.
    15
    16                         (Luncheon Adjournment)
    17
    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.
    26
    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 ----
    30
    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.
    35
    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.
    38
    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Yes.
    40
    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.
    54
    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

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