Saudi Arabia is safer than Nottingham, says envoy

April 22, 2005

Times
By Richard Beeston and Liz Chong

THE British envoy to Saudi Arabia has suggested that security in the country has improved so much that it is now safer for a British businessman to visit a Saudi city than to go to Nottingham.

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, the British Ambassador, risked kicking up a diplomatic storm at home when he told an audience of several hundred people in the eastern Saudi city of al-Khobar an anecdote about a British expatriate worker visiting Nottingham.

“He was saying he felt completely ridiculous having to give British businessmen from Nottingham assurances about the security here when Nottingham is the murder capital of the UK at the moment,” he told a reception for the Queen’s birthday.

“It is far more dangerous, statistically, to be in Nottingham than to be in al-Khobar, Dammam or Riyadh.”

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Sir Sherrard Cowper Coles

HAVING personally known "Sir" Sherrard and his godawful wife bridget elliot cowper coles for some 30 years I'd say the writing is on the wall for this cold-war Stasi plant who was instrumental in deleting MI6 intelligence files on Al Qaeda and the 9/11 attack.

There are about three dangerous estates in Nottingham.

These two are bigger crooks than Aldrich Ames and Bob Hanssen put together.

it is dangerous to be a crack dealer in Nottingham. It isn't dangerous to be in Nottingham per se.

This man needs flogged with a frozen cucumber.

What with the Sheriff being there and all.