Environmentally friendly......
- 27 Sep 06, 12:23 PM
Whatever about the events in the GMEX, Mancunians could be forgiven for thinking something very odd's going on around their city hall. We were lurking there this morning, waiting for the Secretary of State (a recurrent theme of this week) when we spotted - well, it was hard to miss - what appeared to be a rather avant garde piece of sculpture, about thirty feet high. We poked around it for a bit, wondering what on earth it was meant to represent, until (with a little help from a nearby press officer) we realised it was an environmental energy provider. It had solar power generators, irrigation tanks, air filters and rainwater harvesting gutters. And best of all, at the base there were little seats - if you sat down and pulled a plastic hood over your head, a multi media display flashed up, telling you exactly what was going on and why. OK, you did look like you were in the hairdressers getting a particularly advanced shampoo and set - but it was, I have to confess, quite impressive. It's all part of the big conference roadshow here - which makes the hearts of local Labour MPs swell with pride. NIO minister Paul Goggins is one of that select band - he was touring the city centre with Peter Hain this morning, ten years after the IRA bomb. More on that on Evening Extra tonight....
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