Something for the weekend
Romancing the Stoney Street
Mayhem outside the Insider offices last Friday when a Bollywood film crew turned up with a confusing sign for Stratford-upon-Avon train station. Checking we hadn’t spent too long in the Kean’s Head, we did a bit of digging and found out this was the production team for Teri Meri Kahani, a romance starring Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. If they wanted to cast a curtain-twitching, deeply confused man, they only had to ask.
An opportunity, not a problem
The riots across the East Midlands this week were no laughing matter, of course, but you have to wonder sometimes just how much people actually secretly love these kind of crises. Certainly Towergate Insurance was quick off the mark on Tuesday when the company issued a press release just after lunch advising businesses that they really should have a look at their insurance and make sure it’s up to date.
A slew of similar releases followed over the next 24 hours, but Towergate walks away with this week’s Award for Opportunism. Bravo.
Load of rubbish
The Watermead Climate Trail in Leicester is set to be officially unveiled to the public on Saturday 13th August. The 500m trail, including oil drum totem poles, wooden towers and metal gabions, has been in development for nearly two years after funding was secured from the Big Lottery and from building materials company Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK through the Landfill Communities Fund.
What began life as a basic play area concept has now become a "thought-provoking trail that gets across important eco messages in clear language that all ages can understand" apparently.
Carl Bebbington from Newenglish Design said: "It was really important that we practiced what we preached so we used recycled materials in the constructions that we got from the city’s rubbish dumps."
