by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 13, 2009 | Looks Like Beirut
So what exactly makes Orchard Park on the northern border of Cambridge in the UK look like Beirut? Well according to Geramine Greer’s report, it is this: …exhibited “varying styles and quality of design around key features . . . poor quality of...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 9, 2009 | Looks Like Beirut
I really don’t know what to say, though I thought “street whores” looked a like regardless of their geographic location. Anyway, the comment was made by a celebrity blogger commenting on the feud between Demi Moore and Perez Hilton. Here’s the...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 4, 2009 | Looks Like Beirut
I guess I spoke too soon: Frightened residents being terrorised by rampaging neds in an Airdrie street have claimed – “it’s like living in Beirut!” Around 30 youths are making life hell for families in flats at the bottom end of Springholm Drive in The Rushes....
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 3, 2009 | Looks Like Beirut
Our “Looks Like Beirut” for this week: The blustery Yorkshire mill town of Dewsbury has been compared to Beirut, and its recent history as the home of the 7/7 suicide bomber Sidique Khan, a violent gang murder and a bedrock of support for the BNP provoked...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jul 26, 2009 | Looks Like Beirut
Our Looks Like Beirut winner this week is hotelier Mark Bartlett of Llanberis in Gywnedd, North Wales: Violence broke out in the middle of Llanberis High Street on Saturday night, just as the village was playing host to holidaymakers and supporters of the Snowdon...