Channon balls
10th October 1991, Page 28
10th October 1991
Page 28
Page 28, 10th October 1991
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Paul Channon, Baron Kelvedon, Margaret Thatcher
Uormer Transport Secretary Paul Channon could soon be joining the ranks of the NIMBYs — those public figures who believe wholeheartedly in the benefits of more trunk roads, industrial estates and new towns, as long as they are "not in my back yard".
The erstwhile cabinet minister, axed by Mrs Thatcher after a string of transport tragedies, could soon find the new M12 toll road running through his back garden.
Channon proposed the road in 1989, and now the Today newspaper has discovered that one of its possible routes slices through the MP's Essex estate. Channon is understood not to have joined the local pressure group. Stop the M12.
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