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Hair company boss sets Camden council Ashes wager

By Will last year, at the end of June Add your comment below

This made me chuckle. The Ashes always produces little news gems like this, so I whacked it into our Buzz blog with feverish intent.

He may not be playing for Australia any longer, but the shadow Shane Warne casts still looms large – as, indeed, does his face.

A six-foot high poster of Warne appeared on a bricked-up window of Advanced Hair Studios, the company to whom Warne is their now-hirsute ambassador. With depressing predictability, Camden Council have told them to take it down, but they hadn’t banked on the chairman of the company being an Australian, and a feverish cricket fan to boot.

So Carl Howell has set the council a charitable challenge. “I’m prepared to offer the council a wager,” he said. “If England win, we will take it down and pay £5,000 to the Camden Mayor’s Charity Trust Fund. If we [Australia] win, we can keep the poster up. The history between the Aussies and England is based upon having a good laugh together at the end of the series regardless of who wins.”

Councils are not, however, renowned for their sense of cheer and jollity, and it remains to be seen whether the poster will be pulled by the fun police.

Warne, never one to let a jibe pass, said: “Camden Council should be relieved I’m not playing”.

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2 Responses to “Hair company boss sets Camden council Ashes wager”

  • London Borough of Camden wrote:
    June 30th, 2009 at 12.09 pm

    Hi, we’d love to take Mr Howell up on his bet but there are a couple of problems.

    Firstly his studio is a grade 1 listed building which means it is unsuitable for commerical advertising.

    Secondly, we’ve received complaints from local residents about the poster.

    We do have a sense of humour but we also have a duty to uphold conservation regulations for the benefit of all residents and businesses.

    Good luck with the match.

  • richo wrote:
    July 1st, 2009 at 7.40 am

    Complaints from the local residents what a laugh, what’s the thought of Warne causing nightmares for the English cricket tragics. Councils make the rules as they please unless it suits them too bad…

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