| Izzy heads into town to a
grotty pub and scores what she thinks is dope
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Whereas soft lads living at home get three meals a day and a free laundry service for a fraction of what it would cost them to live in some
grotty rented flat.
Boys like to keep mum
Off she stomped after a day at work, only realising when she got there that she was wearing her
grotty old sheepskin boots as they are cosy and, let's face it, it's freezing.
A visit to the podiatrist puts boot into pal's self-confidence; Appointment of the week
Scores on the Doors has proven extremely successful in other areas in exposing
grotty eateries and in some notable cases, filthy school canteens.
Eateries' hygiene scores to go online
On the tough backstreets of Toxteth, Liverpool, kids were walking home from school as Somali dealers as young as 14 sold crack cocaine outside a
grotty corner shop.
Somali gangs building crime empires in the UK
MOST workers described their office as "
grotty" and "rundown" and would spruce things up themselves given the chance, according to research.
Workers 'would spruce up office'
AS an answer to E Cannings' letter on buildings of the future in Middlesbrough (Beauty Spots Turn
Grotty, 04.03.10), we had a similar problem in Norton.
Dereliction duty
The pair desert their
grotty Camden flat and head to the cottage, owned by Withnail's Uncle Monty, for a weekend of mayhem.
Bid to save Uncle Monty's cottage
A week after council bosses insisted a
grotty piece of wasteground was a conservation area, they have cut the grass.
Wild side tamed
"Most car parks are
grotty but they are now being built with the motorists in mind and they can be aesthetically pleasing," he said.
All in a day's work for the car park inspector
Wrapped in hermetic skins of dark brick or metal, the houses face down their
grotty surroundings, but the tough exteriors conceal a succession of secret, sensual inner realms.
David Adjaye: Houses
One character refers to another as a "supply-sider," and indeed, it's tempting to look at Freeman's megaskyscraper, with its
grotty, miasmic lower floors, as a deadpan literalization of the notion of trickledown economics.
Jonah Freeman: Andrew Kreps Gallery
The boys remember how they had to dodge flying glasses and fists as they tried to make their name by playing
grotty venues above pubs - a far cry from the massive summer festivals where the band made their name last year with their anthem Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
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After Reg had explained that Cheltenham is so selective that it uses only 25 per cent of the birch delivered, John impishly remarked: iAnd I suppose you then flog all the
grotty bits to Exeter!i
Letters: Proud; Nick Ansell, clerk of the course at Exeter, on the quality of birch at his course
They were Dave Muck-kay, John Muddy, Ashley Grimes , Graeme Sewerness, Daniel Slurridge, Drain Rooney, Tony
Grotty, Steve McMudmanaman, Robbie Fouler, Dirt Kuyt, Pierre Van Hooj-Gunk.
Daniel Slurridge, Robbie Fouler and Drain Rooney