Consultation Papers

[Ian G Batten]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Watkin Simon wrote:
> If they had seen the proposals - which they haven't - the reporting might
> have been a little more accurate than that I heard on R4 this morning.

Mind you, I think unfortunately Simon has encouraged the commission of
at least one crime already today.  Looking at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2838493.stm

the final sentence, ``AOL estimated this would cost it 34m to upkeep.''
is criminal in its own right.  I realise that every noun can be verbed
and all that, but ``to upkeep''?

ian