Construction industry gossip: The Sex Pistols, the Dulux puppy and more

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2023-07-14T05:00:00

The latest gossip from around the industry

Collector’s item

To the very well-attended summer drinks party for developer CO-RE at its City office last month and a chat with its executive chairman, David Ainsworth. A big music fan, perhaps his proudest moment was seeing the Sex Pistols at Reading University when he was a student there in the 1970s. “There were seven of us in the audience, and after the gig we all went to the bar with the band,” he marvelled. The best moment was yet to come. “Johnny Rotten gave me one of his safety pins. I still have it.”

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