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More Roamerisms from the early 1990s
It was a town holiday on Monday so, right away, there were problems. For example, the scheduled meeting in Lochaber House of the divisional planning committee took place, after some head scratching, in the Alexandra Hotel. Somehow, clerks to the public holidays sub-committee of the district council and the clerks who serve the planning committee on an agency basis, contrived to make a right brochan of it all. Councillors on the committee had tried to get into Lochaber House, but the doors of the chambers wouldn’t open. Facilities in the Alex were first class, however, especially for the press. But the sting was very much in ‘the tale’ because, in the meantime, a team of engineers from Inverness had tried to storm Lochaber House to sort the heating, which had broken down the previous Friday. They didn’t know it was a sort of town holiday.