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Experts concerned at Big Ben's angle of dangle

Britain’s Houses of Parliament, and Ben Ben, are not on entirely safe ground. The tower is visibly leaning half a meter at its spire. [Reuters]

A construction expert who worked on the leaning tower of Pisa in Italy and a multi-storey carpark under the houses of parliament in central London, said there was nothing to worry about, and it would take 10,000 years to reach an angle of concern.

The other “angle of concern” famously contemplated by the British establishment is that found in any given pornographic movie.

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