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     1   MR. MORRIS:  Have you seen McDonald's environment/index.html">litter patrols, well, the
     2        clearing up of environment/index.html">litter anywhere at all?
     3        A.  Yes, I have seen members of staff in uniform in front
     4        of McDonald's building, sort of probably 50 yards or so
     5        either side.
     6
     7   Q.   How often have you seen that?  Is that regularly you have
     8        seen it?
     9        A.  Well, I do not view it as I do from my window.  I mean
    10        when passing by I have often seen a young person with a
    11        broom outside McDonald's.
    12
    13   Q.   How did you know they were from McDonald's?
    14        A.  They were in uniform.
    15
    16   Q.   Is there anything else you would like to say, because we
    17        have finished the questions, that you feel we have missed
    18        out or summing up of what you have to say?
    19        A.  I think only in that there has been no McDonald's
    20        environment/index.html">litter patrol to my knowledge for two and a half years down
         Smith Street.  As I say, I am at my desk more or less on a
    22        daily basis, I do most of my research work at the desk or
    23        in the library nearby, and I have a fairly clear idea of
    24        who moves up and down.  I can tell you when the Benny
    25        Harman doorman comes around the corner to smoke his
    26        cigarette; when the commissionaire from the offices around
    27        the corner goes to the pub for his pint, and for some
    28        reason I have never seen McDonald's staff except for that
    29        occasion I mentioned.
    30
    31   Q.   What about in the early days when you said they did
    32        have ----
    33        A.  In the early days they did, yes.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You think for the last two and a half years?
    36        A.  They came down about a couple of times a day perhaps.
    37        At one time they took racing carrying one of these street
    38        environment/index.html">litter bins having a race down the street.  It made an
    39        awful lot of noise, but I must say they were enthusiastic
    40        and most them they are nice kids.
    41
    42   MR. MORRIS:  Do you have a grudge against McDonald's staff?
    43        A.  No, not at all, only in that they do not do the picking
    44        up that is apparently promised.  I have no grudge against
    45        them at all.
    46
    47   MR. MORRIS:  Thank you very much.
    48
    49                    Cross-Examined by Mr. Rampton.
    50 
    51   Q.   Mr. McIntyre, when did you retire from journalism? 
    52        A.  I took early retirement, sir. 
    53
    54   Q.   That was not my question.  When?
    55        A.  82.
    56
    57   Q.   82?
    58        A.  82.
    59
    60   Q.   So you have been sitting at your desk writing books five