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Barchullona said:
Isn't Prescott "one of our own"? He was on the HDM's list of the top ten people from Hull, wasn't he?
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Is this the same Prescott junior who went tits up with a clothing shop ? Brit ? or the one who was involved in buying a whole street of council houses on NHE off HCC at a ridiculously low price a few years back ?
When questioned about the low price paid, as individuals had offered considerably more, he or the firm he was involved with were sold the houses at such a low price 'because they could afford to refurbish them'...................or words/excuses like that.
 
originallambrettaman said:
He came about half way down a list of 'The 68 most influential people in the city' list, if that's what you're thinking of?
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No, it was a list of the 10 most prominent from Hull or something like that. May have been in a national paper, possibly the Guardian, come to think of it. I remember a fair few commenting they were from Hull and didn't want people to think he was from there.
 
Phil West-Upper. said:
Is this the same Prescott junior who went tits up with a clothing shop ? Brit ? or the one who was involved in buying a whole street of council houses on NHE off HCC at a ridiculously low price a few years back ?
When questioned about the low price paid, as individuals had offered considerably more, he or the firm he was involved with were sold the houses at such a low price 'because they could afford to refurbish them'...................or words/excuses like that.
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No, it was his brother Jonathon Prescott who was in the clothing business and it was also him who was employed by Simon Cutting (owned Petroleum Clothing) who bought the eighteen council houses for £5k each. As far as I remember, it turned out they were in such a state that £5k each turned out to be too much and they weren't viable to renovate and he went bust.
 
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At one point I think the HDM was owned by the national version of the Daily Mail, but now I see that HDM is owned by Trinity Mirror Group, I assume this is the same group who publish the Daily Mirror, a paper I used to buy, along with The Sun, pre Murdoch I may hasten to add and now seems as much crap as The Sun itself. How papers in general seemed to have sunk in editorial quality these day, I actually liked buying papers at one time, the physical more than an online presence. In fact I have had a couple of subscriptions to a couple of papers, The Sunday Times, which took me all week to read, and the Sunday Mail, both I could ignore their right ring bias at time as their journalistic content was very good, remember the Thalidomide scandal?
 
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originallambrettaman said:
No, it was his brother Jonathon Prescott who was in the clothing business and it was also him who was employed by Simon Cutting (owned Petroleum Clothing) who bought the eighteen council houses for £5k each. As far as I remember, it turned out they were in such a state that £5k each turned out to be too much and they weren't viable to renovate and he went bust.
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To quote the sergeant major out of It Ain't Half Hot Mum "Oh dear, never mind" <laugh>
 
originallambrettaman said:
No, it was his brother Jonathon Prescott who was in the clothing business and it was also him who was employed by Simon Cutting (owned Petroleum Clothing) who bought the eighteen council houses for £5k each. As far as I remember, it turned out they were in such a state that £5k each turned out to be too much and they weren't viable to renovate and he went bust.
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I offered more then £5k for one.
 
Walter Sobchak said:
Looks like you dodged a bullet then if they were in such a state..
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I don't believe a word of the spin about them being beyond repair. They were 1930's and either terraced or semi's, either way they were a snip at £5k each, I actually think they went for a lot less then that.
Houses on the same estate sell today for up to £100k.
 
originallambrettaman said:
You could buy a house for about £15k at the time (1998) and they really weren't in a good state...

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One of my old clients bought a place in Dane Park for £10k. Spent £5k doing it up and was expecting £100pm DSS. Someone trashed it before he let it, invalidating his insurance.
 
over18and legal said:
how do you lock yourself out of a shed<laugh>
I could understand man locks himself in a shed
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Mrs. LBIA did this a couple if days ago, she locked the padlock, only to find the next day that we couldn't find the keys anywhere, the obvious conclusion that she'd locked the ****er's in the shed. All of my tools were locked in there so I had to borrow a neighbours drill to drill the barrel out, only to find that there were no keys in the shed. Ten minutes later she found them in the pocket of one of her coats <doh>

Moral to the story, she has far too many coats!
 
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look_back_in_amber said:
Mrs. LBIA did this a couple if days ago, she locked the padlock, only to find the next day that we couldn't find the keys anywhere, the obvious conclusion that she'd locked the ****er's in the shed. All of my tools were locked in there so I had to borrow a neighbours drill to drill the barrel out, only to find that there were no keys in the shed. Ten minutes later she found them in the pocket of one of her coats <doh>

Moral to the story, she has far too many coats!
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Think you are missing a trick here.

Ring paper, get em down to shed , get your lass to pose arms folded in front of aid looking indignant/dismayed and pad out the story a bit.

Job done.
 
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