There's an even better story than that doing the rounds - apparently R/W 17/35 is due for re-surfacing next year and front-runner at the moment is to "do a Glasgow" and have it re-designated as a taxiway and just leave 25/07 as "the runway".
Is it not better having a cross runway? The reason I ask is that 17/35 seem to be used 'quite' often. Also is it not handy during maintanence of the main runway/or if there is an incident?