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The billion-pound hole where Chelsea Barracks used to be

Ross Clark says it’s not so much the Prince of Wales who has put the mockers on this controversial Qatari-backed development, but the grim economics of the credit crunch

issue 28 November 2009
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Ross Clark says it’s not so much the Prince of Wales who has put the mockers on this controversial Qatari-backed development, but the grim economics of the credit crunch

Gordon Brown is well known for his bad timing in selling off half the nation’s gold reserves at the bottom of the market in 1999.

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