"nightjar .me.uk" cpb@insert my surname here wrote in message
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"John Stumbles" wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 May 2008 00:22:55 +0100, "nightjar" cpb@ wrote:

* Apparently, enough to cover the M1 from London to Birmingham to a
height of several feet, which some people thought was a good suggestion.

That'd be a different M1 from the one that doesn't go to Birmingham,
then? ;-)

It would be the first section, junctions 2 to 18, which was considered to
be the London to Birmingham motorway until further bits were built from
1965 on.

Colin Bignell
Then it was supposed to end here, at Leeds. Now it's extended even further.