[Eric]

Originally Posted by garinda

Not forgetting the £60,000 of our money the BBC spent on Tracey Emin's sparrow on top of a tall pole in Liverpool.

Though not so tall that some thieving scousers haven't nicked it
...more than once.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Merseyside | Emin unveils 'sparrow' sculpture

Mmmm, "thieving scousers" .... I detect a little syntactical redundancy in this one.