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     1        those meetings, it is no use asking a witness in the
     2        witness box what Dr. Taylor may have said about them or
     3        what was said at the meetings about them.  Even if it were
     4        admissible, one would be dubious as to what weight could be
     5        attached.  I do not know whether if you called Dr. Taylor
     6        he would help you or hinder you, but that is your route, or
     7        one of them, if you wish to take it.
     8
     9   MR. MORRIS:  If we look at 779, the Royal Hospital Ward
    10        Residents Association's letter to the Executive Vice
    11        President of McDonald's, Mr. Philip Cobden, at the bottom
    12        of page 1 under "Litter" it states in that letter:  "The
    13        regular McDonald's patrol system has broken down".  This is
    14        1993, September 1993.  Do you recall the patrol system
    15        breaking down?
    16        A.  Yes, it certainly broke.  It has been broken down or
    17        non-operative for the last two and a half years.
    18
    19   Q.   I am just trying to flip through them because I am not
    20        going refer to hardly any of them.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Go through deciding quietly to yourself which
    23        ones you want to raise.
    24
    25   MR. MORRIS:  If you go to No. 790, is that a headed notepaper
    26        you recognise?
    27        A.  Yes, that is our Association.
    28
    29   Q.   Alison Robertson is the Secretary?
    30        A.  She was then; we change every two years.
    31
    32   Q.   Right.  Can you read the first couple of paragraphs?
    33        A.  Yes.
    34
    35   Q.   As at November 1993 and now do you agree with those two
    36        paragraphs?
    37        A.  Yes.
    38
    39   MS. STEEL:  On page 788, there is a letter which has an address
    40        at the top, 38 Smith Street?
         A.  Yes, right.
    42
    43   Q.   Is that close to your house?
    44        A.  Well, it is, whatever it is, 38 minus -- 47 minus 48,
    45        12 houses or 11 houses.  It is Geraldine Higson, if you
    46        cannot read the signature -- Mrs.
    47
    48   Q.   Do you know her?
    49        A.  Yes.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Does she still live there? 
    52        A.  Yes. 
    53
    54   MS. STEEL:  She says that the Smith Street Residents Association
    55        opposed the opening of McDonald's; that is correct, is it?
    56        A.  Yes, that is when they were applying for around the
    57        corner.  There was an empty basement around the corner from
    58        us, almost between the corner of Smith Street and Marks &
    59        Spencers, and McDonald's tried to get in there first and
    60        that really worried us.