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Don't be such a wet beach blanket, Mr Hartland
WHAT a misery guts Stephen Hartland must be.
The spokesman for Birmingham's Civic Society sounds like a second city Lord Snooty when he warns that an artificial beach in front of the Art Gallery will detract from the "dignity" of the surrounding area.
Get off your high horse, man.
There will be no finer place to admire the wonderful buildings of the civic quarter than from a deckchair on a sun-drenched day in front of the Chamberlain Square fountain.
I'll be the one with Pevsner's Guide to Architecture - and a knotted hankie on my head.
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