Oops! Gerrit Mended!

[Tilly2]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-51152431

What a shambles, or is that York?

[douglas9401]

What did the Romans ever do for us?

Lessons will be learned.

[Old_Geezer]

Ruddy idiots. And they're letting the same folk sort it out ? Regardless whether it was the construction company or the council who are responsible, they all need the book slung at them, and someone competent taking over.

[wolf63]

Its okay- it was an old wall, a nice new one will be okay. :-)

[jourdain2]

Yup! The Shambles is in York (don't even try to go there in the 2 weeks before Christmas - just believe me). Apart from that - why was there no-one i/c to protect a heritage site? If we so much as dig a hole anywhere around our 11th C. church we have to have an accredited archaeologist/preservation expert on site. I would question the probity of the contract, personally.

[Spicerack]

Yosser, I expect.

[Togo]

Chester City planning officials said, "we have spoken to Mr John Wayne the developer's chief executive who assures us that his site foreman Mr Tom Mix and machine operator Wyatt Earp, in conjunction with a the subcontractors Boot Hill Operatives have the situation under control ." The planning office strongly denied that it was all due to allowing cowboy builders to work close to a National Monument.

[Gromit]

The original wall was Roman, but most of it was rebuilt in the nineteenth century.

[Old_Geezer]

Well that part if the wall has been roman right down the slope.