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 | May 20, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
Glasgow, Scotland I have to hang my head low as this is probably one of the few times where the phrase “looks like Beirut” is actually accurate: STREETS in the East End of Glasgow have so many potholes they look like they belong in Beirut, say residents....
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 19, 2010 | Looks Like Beirut
I had told Elizabeth Diffin of the BBC Online Service that you don’t hear people say “it looks like Baghdad”; apparently I was wrong: Many roads in Tiverton are so potholed, they are ‘more like those in Baghdad or Beirut’ – a former town Mayor...