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RESIDENTS ‘UP IN ARMS’ OVER PLANS
Furore re-erupts
over school bid
continuing controversy: residents and school chiefs are at loggerheads on the Barbican Estate
A ROW has erupted again between a private
girls’ school and “horrified” residents of the
Barbican estate over plans to build a dining
hall beneath their homes.
City of London School for Girls, one of
the top 10 in the country, is accused by some
residents of gradually trying to expand its
primary school and sixth form in recent
years.
It sits inside the Grade II*-listed Barbican
estate, a world renowned example of Brutalist
architecture with the famous Barbican Centre
and Roman castle ruins inside it.
In the latest part of an “ongoing saga”,
residents are now opposing the school’s
plans to build directly under 64 homes in
Mountjoy House, which sits on huge concrete
columns.
Mountjoy resident Jan McLean, 78, said: “A
lot of people who admire the architecture are
horrified, especially people like my husband
and I. It’s just vandalism.”
Wafting
After visiting a public meeting about the
plans last week, one resident, who wished
to remain anonymous, said: “There will be
kitchens. The residents fear that they will get
kitchen smells wafting into the flats.
“And there will be added noise because the
school will be directly under their homes.
“The estate is densely populated but the
architects gave it a marvellous sense of
openness by building sections on columns. The
trouble with the school’s proposal is that they
want to build under one of the blocks.
“The space under the flats is not meant to be
filled. That goes against the whole ethos of the
place.”
It comes after the 125-year-old school,
whose alumni includes singer Dido and
Claudia Winkleman, abandoned plans to build
classrooms in the estate’s underground car
park. Residents also fear the school will attempt
to build a new sixth form block on top of a play
area.
However, the school’s website says kitchen
fumes will be treated to remove smells and
directed away from flats.
And it said the dining hall will be made of
glass “to reflect back the views while allowing
light through”.
A spokesperson for the City of London
Corporation, which helps fund the school, said:
“The plans for the City of London School for
Girls are currently open to public consultation
with residents and other stakeholders.
“The City of London School for Girls values
its place at the heart of the Barbican and looks
forward to continued collaboration with the
community.”
Expanding
Another resident said the school, which
charges £18,300 per year, “creates a furore”
whenever it tries to build.
“It’s an ongoing saga,” they said. “They’ve
expanded three times and get away with it
despite the opposition. But enough is already
enough.
“I’m sure the school has lots of plans to
expand but they keep doing it in small proposals
at a time. It’s stealth tactics and it would destroy
the estate one step at a time.”
Ms McLean, a former teacher, also said:
“They keep expanding. They want more pupils
so they can get more money.
“It will never stop, they will always be vying
with other private schools to have the best
facilities.”
The school was rated “Outstanding” by the
Independent Schools Inspectorate and also
receives donations from companies in the
Square Mile.
dispute: the City Corporation funds the school and says it values its place in the community

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CROSS CODE
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you off. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the main grid,
then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters
should go in the missing squares.
As you get the letters, fill in other squares with the same number
in the main grid and control grid. Check off the alphabetical list of
letters as you identify them.
MAGIC SQUARE
ANNOTATE ALL SOLOS
Using all 16 letters of the phrase above, form
four words each of four letters which will fit in the
grid to form a magic square in which the words
can be read both horizontally and vertically.
SUDOKU
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and each letter may be
used only once. At least
one word using all nine
letters can be found.
Guidelines:
12 Good; 14 Very Good;
17 Excellent.
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Oxford Dictionary (Tenth Edition) is
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nouns, pronouns and possessives;
third person singular verbs;
hyphenated words; contractions
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pastoral care of a bishop in the
Christian Church?
2. In Johannes Vermeer’s painting
Girl With a Pearl Earring, what
colour headscarf is the girl
wearing?
3. The right to keep and bear arms
is protected in which amendment
to the US constitution?
4. Who created the comic strip
Peanuts?
5. Christopher Sly, a drunken
peddler, is a minor character in
which Shakespeare play?
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phrase by moving from one
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the pyramid. You may
only enter each of the
chambers once and
may only proceed
through openings
in the walls. The
first letter may
appear in any
chamber.
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5
6 5 3 4 1
7
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7 1 9 8 2
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6. From 1985 to 1998, Noel Edmonds
hosted which quiz show concerning
TV programmes?
7. Cindy Williams, Mel Healy, Laura
Dunn and Jane Collins were all
married to which TV soap character?
8. Brothers Jonny and Colin
Greenwood are members of which
English rock band?
9. Who was Queen of the Netherlands
from 1980 until her abdication in
2013?
10. The noted historian Hugh Trevor-
Roper was famously taken in by
which hoax?
WORD PYRAMID
FIVE ALIVE
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miniature fivesquare
crosswords
using the same
grid – but the
letters have
been mixed up.
You have to
work out which
letters belong
to which
crossword.
EQUALISER
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3 5 2
5 5
7 5 2
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Place the four signs (add,
subtract, multiply, divide)
one in each circle so that
the total of each across
and down line is the same.
Perform the first calculation in each
line first and ignore the mathematical
law which says you should always
perform division and multiplication
before addition and subtraction.
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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11
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20
22
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ACROSS
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speech (7)
8. High-level post (7)
9. Either way it is a tonic (7)
10. Attractive – but only partly
successful? (7)
11. I arrange serial for Middle
Easterner (7)
12. Clothes not required for
evening (3-4)
14. Old railway contender more
easily excited (7)
18. Kate and Co could have
included a biscuit (7)
20. Non-intellectual removing
bowl with loud noise (7)
21. I retain remarkable
sluggishness (7)
22. Brief reference that it’s not
mine surprisingly (7)
23. Injured leg once in Scottish
valley (7)
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QUICK CROSSWORD
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DOWN
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shouldn’t be needed! (9,4)
2. Hollow warning to sailors (6)
3. Riverside reception (5)
4. Remarkable draw at home
in Australia (6)
5. Cutting back on parental
guidance when admitting
arrest (7)
6. Sign of defiance by a
Liberal having our
bravery (6)
7. Sportsman aggressive but
completely shattered
(4,2,3,4)
13. Attack artist’s identity after
song (3-4)
15. Move film backwards about
section of the band (6)
16. Arguing while in a boat? (6)
17. Pole in charge of the
cement (6)
19. Put me next to the
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SOLUTIONS
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32
NONAGRAM:
daft; deaf; deft; fade; fast; fasted; fate;
fated; feast; feat; fess; feta; fetid; fiat;
fideist; fiesta; fist; fisted; safe; safest;
SATISFIED; seif; sift; sifted.
Across – Seals; Gnome; Agent.
Down – Sigma; Atone; Swept.
Across – Cream; Adder; Stray.
Down – Chaos; Elder; Murky.
(2)
FIVE ALIVE:
(1)
QUICK CROSSWORD:
Across – 1 Socket; 4 Aboard; 8 Ponies; 10 Behave; 11 Reset; 12
Orange; 14 Alcove; 16 Says; 17 Tern; 19 Fact; 22 Face; 26 Pillar;
27 Orkney; 28 Nixon; 29 Unesco; 30 Titbit; 31 Evenly; 32 Gamete.
Down – 1 Syphon; 2 Canvas; 3 Energy; 5 Beetle; 6 Amazon; 7
Deepen; 9 Sees; 10 Beat; 13 Natal; 15 Crack; 18 Spouse; 19
Fleece; 20 Cancel; 21 Trio; 22 Foot; 23 Arnica; 24 Enable; 25
Myrtle.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD:
Across – 1 Heckled; 8 Airmail; 9 Reviver; 10 Winsome; 11 Israeli;
12 Non-iron; 14 Nervier; 18 Oatcake; 20 Lowbrow; 21 Inertia; 22
Mention; 23 Glencoe.
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Pruning; 6 Valour; 7 Blue in the face; 13 Air-raid; 15 Rewind; 16
Rowing; 17 Mastic; 19 Theme.
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EQUALISER:
Clockwise from top
left – add; divide;
multiply; subtract.
Total: 4.
WORD PYRAMID:
Have two left feet.
MAGIC SQUARE:
also; lean; salt;
onto.
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CROSS CODE
1 2 3
QUIZ CHALLENGE: 1 Diocese; 2 Blue; 3 2nd Amendment; 4 Charles Schulz; 5 The Taming of the Shrew; 6 Telly Addicts; 7 Ian Beale;
8 Radiohead; 9 Beatrix; 10 The Hitler Diaries.
ACROSS
1. Hollow
receptacle (6)
4. On a ship (6)
8. Small horses (6)
10. Conduct
oneself (6)
11. Readjust (5)
12. Citrus fruit (6)
14. Recess (6)
16. Utters (4)
17. Sea swallow (4)
19. Truth (4)
22. Aspect (4)
26. Column (6)
27. Scottish island
group (6)
28. Former US
president (5)
29. International
agency (abbrev.) (6)
30. Tasty morsel (6)
31. Smoothly (6)
32. Germ cell (6)
DOWN
1. Tube (6)
2. Tent fabric (6)
3. Vigour (6)
5. Scurrying insect (6)
6. Female warrior (6)
7. Intensify (6)
9. Views (4)
10. Pulse (4)
13. Of birth (5)
15. Fracture (5)
18. Marriage partner (6)
19. Sheepskin (6)
20. Call off (6)
21. Threesome (4)
22. Twelve inches (4)
23. Natural bruise
treatment (6)
24. Make possible (6)
25. Evergreen
shrub (6)
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18 th - 22 nd June 2019
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