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Monday, April 27, 2009
New Cross vs. New York (2)
Just noticed that a different version of the article in today's Metro referred to in the previous post is also in today's Daily Hate Mail with a typically nasty shift in tone - i.e 'You gotta be kidding: New York Times tells U.S. tourists they MUST go to 'Wild West' Deptford... Wealthy American tourists are being urged to visit a crime-plagued UK district which has been dubbed ‘London's Wild West', by a popular travel guide'.
you didn't see the original (wish I'd taken a screen shot!). It has been toned down considerably since then.
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