Good Grief

[ttfn]

Just £5k ? That's ok then.

http://www.bournemout...only_to_demolish_it_/

thudddddddddddddddddddddd

[jno]

couldn't they have kept it in use as sheltered housing?

[woofgang]

well as they say that no public money was used, why not? Folk have spent more money on sillier things....not that this wasn't very silly....

[Gromit]

They could have photoshopped a sandcastle for less than £100.

[ttfn]

Just tax payers' money.

[jno]

it was all for publicity so at least ttfn has done her bit by bringing it to the attention of the wider world, otherwise nobody would ever have noticed.

[Prudie]

Thud indeed. What a pathetic reason to take it down. Perhaps they should drain the sea too.

[DTCwordfan]

talk about creating a sandstorm over something that is relatively trivial.

[ttfn]

Look after the pennies ..., DT.

[DTCwordfan]

and then they can shell out for something, ttfn. There may be a wave of support for this.

[Prudie]

I expect the outlay will be recouped durig the Olympics, it's the pulling it down that I have an issue with.

[woofgang]

"The spokesman added that no public money had been used for the sandcastle and said: “LOCOG is a privately funded company and our budget is raised through ticket sales, merchandising and licensing.”"

[ttfn]

Prudie, as if the poor people of Weymouth had not enough to contend with over the damned Olympics.

My blood fair boiled when I heard this on Radio Solent.

[woofgang]

ttfn your blood must boil very easily....

[jackthehat]

She's not going to be happy when she sees what they've done to her sandcastle.......

http://www.demotix.co...ed/photos/1165814.jpg

[Prudie]

Life for Weymouth and Portlanders will be hell this Summer that's why I think it's a shame this was destroyed before most of them would have even known it was there.

[weecalf]

castles in the air maybe a n omen of the team gb in the olympics. Think positive weecalf ,think positive

[ttfn]

woofgang - it does when I think of better ways to spend £5k, e.g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%27s_House

[anotheoldgit]

/// Why build £5,000 Olympic sandcastle only to demolish it? ///

Why, did the expect it to stand for hundreds of years?

[ttfn]

btw woofgang, the LOCOG is not 'a privately funded company'.

[DTCwordfan]

Bournemouth Town Council have, apparently, issued a Press Release,

"There isn't a grain of truth to this story. It appears the Daily Mail have floundered on a mudpie over this.Their hacks evidently spent too much time in the local sand-bar."