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		<title>Twickenham Studios: 99 years young </title>
		<description>Discuss Twickenham Studios: 99 years young </description>
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			<title>Daniel Cormack says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The rosy picture of a local community campaign fighting against evil property developers isn't the whole story. I set up the Save Twickenham Studios campaign as a non-partisan group of local residents and film industry workers. That campaign was hijacked by Maria Walker who, with ruthless determination, sought to use it to leverage herself into running the studios, even if this meant using confidential/privileged information accessed via the campaign to undermine other bidders trying to save the studios. An extremely high risk strategy and I'm still not sure it will pay off. Maria shopped herself around anyone and everyone she thought may be able to buy the studios (and install her to run them); I'm surprised she finally alighted upon Vohra. So a hotel isn't suitable, but Vohra is sitting on an extremely lucrative (and currently unrealised) land asset and has appointed someone who has no experience of running facilities on this scale. It will be far harder to save next time.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Daniel Cormack</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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