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Friday, 24 October 2008

Blairs blow £500k on garden




Credit crunch? Blairs are spending a fortune on home, such a lovely couple.

THE credit crunch has clearly not hit Tony and Cherie Blair—they‘re poised to spend £500,000 tarting up the gounds of their new country pile.


With the former Prime Minister’s Cabinet colleagues about to be hit by a pay freeze as the country goes into recession, planning permission has been granted to renovate the gardens at the Blairs’ Grade 1 listed South Pavilion in Wotton Underwood near Aylesbury, Bucks.

£5.7m mansion

They plan to install an infinity POOL, a POND, a TENNIS COURT, two PAVILIONS, a PERGOLA, an avenue of trees and extra parking at the seven-bed mansion they bought for £5.75million in the summer.

The house—said to be haunted by the ghost of actor Sir John Gielgud, the previous owner—is just 20 miles from Chequers.

The Blairs said the thing they missed most about his time as PM was the use of the country retreat. A former Government colleague and friend told the News of the World: “The Blairs have a London house but the thing they wanted most of all was a family base.


“Chequers was a bit like that. The whole of the family, Keith Vaz, Lord Mendelson, my dear, inebriated friend , John Prescott. All my friends and hangers on could pile down and enjoy themselves in privacy, talking about who is sleeping with whom and of course, the next financial/political stroke we would all pull, to our immense benifit, South Pavilion is just the same. "


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