Canaries take on British water saving ideas

On the front page of Canary Islands newspaper, Canarias7, website this morning was, to my great surprise, a smiling picture of London's Mayor, Ken Livingstone. The headline associated with the photo translates to "The Mayor of London recommends not pulling the chain after urinating". Surely, I thought, they are taking the piss? (Alright, bad pun.)

My guess is that the Canarian newspaper hopes that locals on the islands will be inspired by Livinstone's example, in which he assures that neither he, nor members of his family have pulled the mayoral chain in the last 15 months. Blimey, his bathroom must stink!

The original article appeared, in English, of course, in The Independant, under the title, Red Ken's green manifesto: do not flush the lavatory and, aside from the article itself, it is interesting to see that the Canarian press seems to take a lot more interest in it's British counterparts than vice-versa or, that we might have considered.

El alcalde de Londres recomienda no tirar de la cadena tras orinar

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