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dallas 
In fact, it would probably take 2 blokes because of the working at height issue. You could probably add another couple of £100s to the 'repair' bill, but on the up side they would probably do lots at once :-)
Nah, to replace the red light in the top of the tower - 70 feet - they could not use the vertical ladder - non-compliant, so a scafolding firm was brought in to erect a scafold access from the ground to the top of the tower.
£22, peanuts when you really set your mind to it.
You are lucky, when they closed one of the power stations next to EGNX Powergen turned off all the nav lights on top of the cooling chimneys, when it was raised with them, they pointed out the station was now closed, when the little fact that the Chimneys and all the buildings were still standing they had an oops moment and turned them all back on..
Little Birdie told me ages ago, so cannot verify, but the rumour was 2 jags Prescotts cars that he used were actually supplied by a company in Nottingham, so every time he needed a car to drive a couple of hundred yards across London, they had to travel from Notts to London, move him, then travel back to Notts!!!!!!!!!!
That is where our taxes go!!!!!!!