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Article: Leeds headache for Monopoly bosses.
- Article from:
- Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
- Article date:
- June 24, 2008
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NO business in Leeds wants to be known as bargain basement.
So that is causing a problem for makers of a new Monopoly game for the city.
For they are having trouble finding a taker for the site occupied for 70 years by Old Kent Road.
"Is the city too posh to be associated with a site that costs only [pounds sterling]60?" asked Graham Barnes, spokesman for Winning Moves, who are bringing out a Leeds version in October.
The public has been asked to nominate landmarks for the squares and businesses have been invited to put their names to them.
"But when we sound them out about Old Kent Road," said Mr Barnes, "we don't get our ...