Leveson pours cold water on swimming pool splash
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Version 0 of 1. It is a story that seemingly has everything: a disgrace banker, a TV presenter, the judge of a landmark inquiry into press misbehaviour – and plans to build a swimming pool in a well-to-do neighbourhood. So it is no surprise that the Daily Mail went big on the news that <strong>Lord Justice Leveson</strong> is among the residents – led by Sir Victor Blank and including Richard Madeley – opposing plans to build an underground swimming pool in a leafy suburb of north London. Except the story may be too good to be true. It didn't take Leveson's judicial spokesman long to issue a stern denial: "The judge is not a party to, or connected to, the legal action. He has no comment to make on the legal action or the circumstances". Ouch. The Times reports that the judge was similarly unimpressed with his local paper – the Ham & High – after it printed a reference to the area where Leveson lives. The paper deleted the reference after he complained of a security risk. All, it seems, is not going swimmingly for the post-inquiry judge. |