by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 16, 2013 | Looks Like Beirut
I am once again left speechless. How exactly do burnt-out cars look like Beirut? A CAR trader who lost eight vehicles in a huge fire last night has spoken of the devastation at the scene. The vehicles were lost in a blaze at Southside Farm, Wooburn Moor, which began...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 28, 2013 | Looks Like Beirut
Over the past year or so, I have been using photos of Beirut to accompany my Looks Like Beirut posts. These photos have been made available thanks to the Creative Commons-licensed photos posted by users on Flickr. Through a recent search, I came across a photo with a...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 28, 2013 | Looks Like Beirut
We’ve had construction sites (incomplete buildings, tram work, flying scaffolding, delayed construction, metro lines, road works – take your pick) that look like Beirut and a myriad of dilapidated buildings (former military base, a Hindley building,...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 12, 2013 | Looks Like Beirut
From Glasgow, to Tiverton, to across the ocean in Ohio, roads everywhere are looking like Beirut. We now have an addition to the list with Alness: ROADS in a pothole-plagued Easter Ross estate have been compared to “war-torn Beirut” by a fed-up local whose complaints...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jan 28, 2013 | Looks Like Beirut
It was quite an eventful weekend: I turned 30 on the 27th, this blog turned 4 on the 26th, and columnist Angus Young of the Hull Daily Mail acknowledges receiving a “Looks Like Beirut” certificate on the 25th: I was delighted to open a large brown envelope...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jan 8, 2013 | Looks Like Beirut
The New York Times has an online series called Townies, and according to NYT it is “a series about life in New York — and occasionally other cities — written by the novelists, journalists and essayists who live there”. Last week’s edition saw Cathy...