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Going down to South Park

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Going down to South Park

Piers Williamson, chief executive of the Housing Finance Corporation, took on more than he may have bargained for when, on a visit to a client, he asked to go along with a team to witness the eviction of a problem tenant.

‘The bailiff said he had a bit of a violent record. The tactic was basically, if he gets nasty we run three different ways - he can’t chase all of us,’ recalls Mr Williamson, who presumably was praying he was the fastest of the party.

Sure enough, when they rang the door, the tenant opened it holding a baseball bat, and every intention of ‘getting nasty’.

The three-man eviction party bolted in three different directions and managed to escape without harm, but Closed Circuit finds it unlikely that Mr Williamson will be asking for any more ride-alongs in the near future.


London mayor Boris Johnson has occasionally been accused of being cartoonish - and it seems to be influencing his view of the world.

Speaking as he answered questions from the London Assembly on the Olympic South Park, he quipped: ‘I’m going down South Park, I’m gonna have myself a time. We took the precaution of killing Kenny.’

Given, perhaps, that he was being grilled by assembly members on the legacy of the Olympic Games, he failed to quote the next line: ‘Friendly faces everywhere…’


Coronation Street’s long-standing resident Hayley Cropper died in the arms of husband Roy in the soap’s eagerly awaited episode on Monday.

The event brought a tear to millions of eyes, but for Northward Housing’s head of housing options, Anne Duffield, the week revived memories of happier days.

Ms Duffield took to Twitter to reveal that she has ‘great memories of singing at Roy and Hayley’s wedding’ with the Manchester Show Choir.

Ms Duffield mentioned that it will be a week before she watches the tear-jerking episode. Closed Circuit hopes she has some tissues to hand and, meanwhile, is off to visit YouTube to see if it can locate Ms Duffield’s moment of fame.

Send your juicy housing gossip to closedcircuit@insidehousing.co.uk

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