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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment

FOUND: A tall story about our road protest scaffold | Mind Blowing Facts

The M11 link road protest at Claremont Road in east London in 1994.
‘None of us had scaffolding experience.’ The M11 link road protest at Claremont Road in east London in 1994. Photograph: Graham Turner/The Guardian

Having been an eager participant in the M11 link road campaign, I appreciated the Claremont Road eviction article (G2, 26 November). But the claim for the scaffolding tower being 100ft high still bugs me, as it was a number simply plucked out of the air to satisfy curious journalists at the time. I tediously measured it with a tape measure at 44ft. We were, though, immensely proud of our construction, as none of us had scaffolding experience.
John Hodges
Camberwell, London

• As Gary Lineker surveys his post-BBC future, my family is musing about the programming possibilities for his Goalhanger production company. Maybe a podcast on reputation management for large organisations, hosted by Justin Welby and Paula Vennells, entitled The Rest Is Integrity?
Alison Ford
Southampton

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