I've just read a report that the Torquay hotel (called the Gleneagles Hotel) that gave John Cleese the inspiration to create the series Fawlty Towers is to be demolished in order to make way for a retirement home.
Whilst I recognise the need for us to house our old and infirm in comfortable surroundings... it does sound a bit much that the firm that bought the place - Churchill Retirement Living - simply announced the date when the bulldozers would be moving in without so much as a mention to the cultural significance of the area.
Probably the people that run Churchill Retirement Living watch pap like Big Brother or some other shite reality TV series and have never even heard of Fawlty Towers.
Would be funny if someone was to run up to one of their JCB's and start whipping it with a tree branch.
