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Article: Hilary Benn faces quiz on family home's sea defences.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 17, 2008
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Byline: Glen Owen
ENVIRONMENT Secretary Hilary Benn was challenged last night over why thesea wall protecting father Tony's mansion was repaired with public funds whilehis Government department decided to abandon a nearby historic harbour to thesea.
Officials have admitted that the coastal defence outside Tony Benn's StansgateAbbey Farm on the Blackwater estuary was shored up last October because it wasat risk of breaching.
But Benn junior is facing the wrath of residents in the Suffolk town ofWalberswick - including celebrities such as actor Bill Nighy and Four WeddingsAnd A Funeral writer Richard Curtis - who have been told that their ...