High level talks for council staff stuck in lift (From Southend Standard)
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High level talks for council staff stuck in lift
6:00pm Thursday 25th October 2012 in Echo News By Gina Marden
High level talks for council staff stuck in lift
COUNCIL staff found themselves having high level talks when they got stuck in the lift of a troubled tower block.
The drop-in session, organised by the Basildon Community Safety Partnership (CSP) at Brooke House in Basildon’s Town Square had been held for residents to raise concerns about anti-social behaviour at the flats.
But instead five council officers and a firefighter found themselves experiencing first hand the dodgy lifts that cause Brooke House residents’ so much grief when they got stuck on the 14th floor on Tuesday afternoon.
Firefighters from Basildon fire station were called out to help rescue the trapped council workers.
But the irony of their ordeal was not lost on residents who, for years, have put up with the notorious lifts at the Grade II listed flats.
The six people - which included one pregnant woman - were eventually freed after around 30-minutes when the lift moved itself to the 12th floor, where they got out and used the nearby stairwell.
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whataday
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7:20pm Thu 25 Oct 12
billericay boy
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7:38pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Trainman
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10:59pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Eric Whim
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asbo industries inc
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Blind Haze
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2:47pm Fri 26 Oct 12
muffindamule
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7:32pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Trainman wrote:I was told that too now that you come to mention it. Perhaps it would have been better all round had it been true !
I was told on leaving school that this tower block was supposedly sinking. Had it, then the roof Might have been at ground level by now?
notinwestcliffanymore says...
6:16pm Thu 25 Oct 12