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No sooner than we were talking about this ofter afternoon tea and biscuits than …

Britain’s horse chestnut trees, providers of conkers for generations of schoolboys, are dying in their thousands in the worst case of tree blight since Dutch elm disease 30 years ago.

The horse chestnuts, which often stand in majestic rows in city streets, are being hit by a “triple whammy” of drought, pest attack and disease. On many, the leaves have already withered and shrunk, and conkers, the fruits of the tree, are not being produced at all.¹

1. The Independant (24th August 2006) ↩

A Mexican architect was today facing up to 18 years in jail for designing a 61-metre tunnel under the US–Mexico border for use by drug smugglers.
Filipe de Jesus Corona-Verbera was convicted of drug-smuggling charges, for being the in-house architect for the highly violent Guzman drug-trafficking organisation.

The tunnel – which was discovered in 1990 – was designed with a hugely complex hidden entrance. A tap was turned on outside a Mexican house on the border that caused a section of concrete flooring under a pool-table inside to rise 2.5 metres into the air through the use of hydraulic pumps.
The shaft then dropped 10 metres to the tunnel, which extended 61 metres under the border and came up through a false drain into a warehouse on the other side.
The extraordinary structure was revealed to police after more than 900kg of cocaine was found to have made its way into the States through the tunnel.¹

impressive!

1. Architect’s Journal24 Aug 2006 ↩

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