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4 NOBODY KNOWS GLASGOW BETTER Saturday June 13 2009 EVENING TIMES EVENING TIMES Saturday June 13 2009 367,000 WEEKLY AUDIENCE IN PRINT AND ONLINE 5 FACES IN THE Cancelled NEWS Walkingonthe MoonisaBuzz HIDDENTOMBHIDDENTOMB ISREVEALEDISREVEALED wedding BUZZ Aldrin walked on the moon 40 WegetsneaklookattheEgyptianHalls, whicharesetfora£6.5Moverhaul years ago. Now he’s battlelost celebrating with some hotel’s presentation of moon tunes performed by Couple ordered the wedding package the Boston Pops. details had been mislead- The celebration includes to pay £3000 to ing from the start. singalongs of the standards lochside hotel “She summed it up Blue Moon, It’s Only a Paper with these words ‘they Moon, Moon River and Fly A COUPLE have been want to get your money Me to the Moon. ordered to pay £3000 and say we’ll deal with Aldrin was the second to a luxury hotel things later’. man to walk on the moon, “However, I accept the following Neil Armstrong on after cancelling their couple failed to appreci- July 20, 1969. wedding due to “hid- ate the full implications den costs”. of the bargain. John and Helen “It must have been Cher’sdaughter Lindsay, from Tollcross, plain to them that charges Glasgow, were planning beyond that of the deposit hassexchange a big white wedding at itself were due in the The Lodge on Loch event of cancellation.” CHASTITY Lomond in Luss but The sheriff added he BONO, the called it off after they would not make the cou- daughter of were told they would ple pay for the hotel’s Cher, is having have to pay £600 extra to estimated bar charges a sex change. host the ceremony there. and room bookings. Bono The couple – who The couple approached began the finally wed at the the hotel in late 2006 to sex-change process to Bothwell Bridge Hotel – become a man earlier expected to lose just a this year, her spokesman £500 deposit but a clause She claimed the said. in the hotel’s contract Publicist Howard meant they were liable details were misleading Bragman said Bono was for half of the total cost. from the start proud of the decision. The lodge, whose The 40-year-old writer, famous guests have book their wedding for activist and reality television included Bill Clinton and September 2007, taking star revealed 20 years ago George Bush Snr, had ini- the venue’s premium that she was gay. tially demanded almost Macmillan package and £5000 from the couple. paying a £500 deposit. This was to cover costs In January 2007 they MileyCyrusto including potential bar were sent a copy of the takings and rooms that hotel’s standard wedding might have been booked contract, signed it and playUKconcerts by their guests. returned it to the hotel. But in a written judg- TEEN pop star When they were later ment lodged at Glasgow told about an extra £600 Miley Cyrus Sheriff Court yesterday, has I fee they cancelled. After almost 30 years of neglect, the restoration work Sheriff Sean Murphy The couple received an announced required inside the Egyptian Halls is apparent, but it’s a ordered the couple to pay dates for her invoice for £4931 in July challenge owner Derek Souter, left, is prepared to face £3000, plus the hotel’s 2008. They offered to pay first UK legal expenses. concerts as £2000 but the hotel Sheriff Murphy said: refused to accept this. she continues to build a pop “Mrs Lindsay claimed the career in her own right rather than as her alter-ego Hannah Montana. Cyrus, 16, who plays a By GRAEME MURRAY dirt and grime on schoolgirl with a secret the outside of the HE owners of one of identity as Hannah Montana building hides None of Thomson’s architectural Windfarmto in the Disney series and Glasgow’s most important Thomson’s ornate brilliance can be seen from inside movie, will perform two A-listed architectural frontage, thought to and there is no evidence of the nights at London’s O2 Arena treasures have warned be among the original use as a shopping bazaar and on December 13 and 14. that time is running out to architect’s finest exhibition space. T work. save it. But from the roof you can see some create£200M Work has started trying to salvage But inside, the of the ornate frontage of the building. Princewins the crumbling fabric of the semi- building is a shell, full Architects the Morrison A GIANT wind farm will The farm, to be devel- derelict Egyptian Halls in Union of rubble and Partnership have been charged with generate orders worth oped by Scottish and decaying plaster more than £200million for Southern Energy, will Street after decades of disputes over consideration.” coming up with a scheme to barracks’battle its ownership. which latterly housed transform the halls. firms in Scotland, the generate enough power a Chinese restaurant The derelict four- First Minister has said. for about 200 homes. The Prince of The A-listed Alexander ‘Greek’ The £6.5m development is the and an Inland empty since 1982. It’s not in any storey halls were built in 1873 The 152-turbine farm SSE said it will provide Wales has Thomson building has stood still and are now reached via a shuttered culmination of 11 years of investment while almost 30 years have passed. Revenue training centre. danger of falling down but there is to be built near Abingdon, at least 100 jobs in its won his battle internal deterioration and water door at pavement level opposite the which has finally secured 100% to get the And decades of decay have taken Derek Souter’s Dundee-based firm ownership of the halls. in Lanarkshire, will be construction phase and Union Street Properties has been ingress and you reach a cut-off point side entrance to Central Station. the single biggest wind 30 in its operational life. developers its toll on the historic building’s where something has to be done. From there, a steep, dimly-lit And it’s believed the halls’ structure. involved with the halls for 11 years farm to have been given Mr Salmond said: “The of Chelsea “There are a few options for it and staircase leads you to the first floor. restoration will be the catalyst for Barracks to But now owners have finally been but, because of legal issues over Behind 30 transforming the rest of Union Street. consent in Europe. sheer scale of the Clyde ownership, only took possession of we are looking at offices, retail or The decay of the interior is Alex Salmond hailed wind farm reflects drop their modernist design allowed to start rescuing the 136- hotel use because of its prime immediately noticeable and the halls’ years of Architect George Morrison said: for the project. year-old treasure and transforming it the building last year. “The current outward appearance is the potential for firms Scotland’s ambition and Now he is hopeful the firm can location. time as a restaurant is still evident when he visited the site ability to become the The Middle East owners into a £6.5million retail, office or with Chinese characters on its dusty soot, so dirty and forlorn that I guess the hotel scheme. salvage the halls with a huge “Given its proximity to Central to see preparatory work. clean, green energy capi- announced they have Station it would seem a great location windows and crimson flock wallpaper grime and bird building does not register with most withdrawn planning Scaffolding has been erected on investment after years of neglect. of the passing public. The project will cost tal of Europe. But after the Evening Times was for a hotel. desperately trying to cling to its walls. £500m, and the £200m- “Scotland boasts a application, less than a the outside of the building and the A caged liftshaft occupies the droppings is “Behind 30 years worth of soot, painstaking process has started to given an exclusive tour of the four- “We are keeping it wind and worth of contracts will clear, competitive advan- week before it was due watertight and managing the stairwell leading to the top floor and grime and bird droppings, however, to be considered by restore its stonework, windows, roof floor property, Mr Souter warned time one of the most resides one of the most striking include a £10m order for tage in the development is running out to save the historic deterioration when we can but we are climbing the stairs gets increasingly Machrihanish-based of clean, green energy planning chiefs. and the ironwork supporting its precarious as holes become more striking facades facades in Glasgow.” blackened façade. halls. aware there are ground floor traders Welcon Towers to supply sources with 25% of The decision follows and their trade is paramount in our evident. [email protected] Underneath the decades of fumes, He said: “It’s more or less been in Glasgow turbine towers, helping Europe’s offshore wind intervention by the Prince. to secure 100 jobs. and tidal power.”