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 | Nov 13, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
Hindley, United Kingdom Hindley residents are breathing a sigh of relief after the local authorities have earmarked a dilapidated building for demolition. Lebanese citizens on the other hand will not be happy to learn that the residents had dubbed the building, Little...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 5, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
Canterbury, UK In the 1990s, an aide to former US President George Bush Sr. coined the term Little Beirut in regards to Portland, Oregon for the violent protests that took place there during a visit. But apparently, there’s another “little Beirut”...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 26, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
South Yorkshire, UK Thanks to Olivia Alabaster for this video: An unfinished South Yorkshire housing estate has been criticised by a local resident as looking “like Beirut”. The Stone Edge housing development is at Fox Hill, Sheffield and has just six...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jun 20, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom Abandoned property is an easy magnet for trash, a fact the residents of Aylesbury in the UK know too well: Disused, damaged garages and dumped rubbish are making an area of Aylesbury look ‘more like Beirut’. The area, just off Whaddon...