The Scoop

Hooray for Hounslow - council tweeter defends borough's honour

Darryl Chamberlain | Tuesday 6 March, 2012 08:00

Some London boroughs do tweeting better than others. Some tell you useful things, others parp out meaningless stats to big themselves up. Some still don’t bother.

Many though, will kindly keep an ear out for you if you have a question or suggestion.

So hats off to Hounslow Council’s intrepid tweeter, who got in on Monday morning to find a curious question from one Wendy Owen, sent at the start of the weekend when that Friday feeling had clearly started to kick in: “How do we arrange for lovely Chiswick to be removed from your skanky borough?”

Clearly, she hasn’t walked along the Thames at Isleworth or explored the canal at Brentford. It’s not bad out west, you know.

The response? “Hi Wendy we’ve no plans to remove Chiswick from lovely Hounslow. We’d be interested to know what particularly you find ‘skanky’.”

Sadly, no response from Ms Owen, who says on her Twitter biog that she’s a “Marketing Exec for BBC Children in Need… My views are my own not Pudsey’s!”

She might be a bit more careful with those views in future. In the meantime, it’s Hounslow Council 1, Pudsey 0.

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