BOOM: Swindon!

[Eirikur]

“ Swindon and Sunderland are to get the most money – £25m each – to fund a “bus boulevard” in the Wiltshire town and to improve Sunderland’s 1960s railway station.

A total of 15 towns and cities are to receive all the money they had bid for, totalling £255m. Another 57 areas have received provisional funding offers worth a combined £576m.

The £831m total is £169m short of the £1bn Boris Johnson promised in August 2019 would “re-energise and transform” more than 100 high streets across the country. Johnson had said the Future High Streets Fund would support more than 100 high streets.”

Government names 72 high streets in England to share GBP831m recovery fund | Business | The Guardian

This is _V_ictory for Swindon!

A non wobbly and not broken slab on one of Swindon railway station's platforms would already be a transformation

[xoggoth]

Isn't that Dim Prawn land?

Putting lipstick on a pig

What happened to Miss Piggy? Hot she was!

[AtW]

Shrimp Lipstick

[ladymuck]

I'm torn between

"Putting lipstick on a pig" and
"Can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"

Probably the former

[AtW]

“ Swindon and Sunderland are to get the most money – £25m each – to fund a “bus boulevard” in the Wiltshire town and to improve Sunderland’s 1960s railway station.

A total of 15 towns and cities are to receive all the money they had bid for, totalling £255m. Another 57 areas have received provisional funding offers worth a combined £576m.

The £831m total is £169m short of the £1bn Boris Johnson promised in August 2019 would “re-energise and transform” more than 100 high streets across the country. Johnson had said the Future High Streets Fund would support more than 100 high streets.”

Government names 72 high streets in England to share GBP831m recovery fund | Business | The Guardian

This is _V_ictory for Swindon!