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Socialist Organiser1982 1982-01-28Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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by the judge which they know and are glad they know) will be totally disregarded.
It must have proved demoralising for the Sun. It must have proved more demoralising to know that one of their two stoolpigeons was due in court himself on charges of fiddling his overtime!
EXPRESS * sIly -THE D DOKT MAGGIE I of our lives TIME WINTER ASSET-STRIPPING 1982: The Government has decided to sell back the St Georges Hospital site at Hyde fark Corner to its original owner, the Grosvenor Estate, whose present heir, the Duke of Westminster, is worth £2,000 million, at cost price £23,700. The site is reckoned to be worth around £20 million on the open market.
The site had been occupied by the hospital for over 200 years, at a nominal rent, with the proviso that if the land ceased to be used for medical purposes it should be sold back to the estate at its original price.
When the closure was first announced, the workers occupied the hospital. Rumours were rife at the time that private medicine would make a killing by buying up this prime site in the centre of London, at the expense of the NHS.
Now it seems that even that is not to be. The site is due to be 'developed' for offices, and one of the richest men in the country will pocket £20 million. To them that have
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