The council is scheduled to vote on the boathouse one week from tomorrow. And the opposition's viewpoint follows.

Another prize-winning novelist, , accepted the offer to write the most recent Bond novel, Solo. A self-confessed Bond , the African-born writer set much of the 1969 action in the continent of his birth. Early reviews have been generally , though his decision to use a fictional African country Zanzarim and the convoluted plot have met with some .William Hague has been volunteered to answer demands for a on what happens next, now that Vaclav Klaus has put his John Hancock on the Lisbon ('phtuie' Treaty. The suspense is killing us, and Mr Hague has done nothing to ease it. As expected, he's told those who think you can and should have a referendum on a Treaty that is in force to get real.

Senators in both parties painted him as preening and uncooperative.

The site also offered tutorials on hacking ATM machines, contact lists for black market connections and counterfeiters, and guns and hit men for sale, according to the charges.

Now, the internet is busy with a million blogs and tweets and websites on every bus journey and every hotel. In March, the funeral bell was tolled not for the first time for the printed guidebook when Lonely Planet was sold by BBC Worldwide to the US firm NC2 Media. Footprint itself is about to publish new weekending guides to Barcelona, Prague and Rome not as books but as apps.