It's not quite Manhattan or Canary Wharf - but Colchester still boasts a unique skyline.

Unique skyline a view over the town's old Royal London building. 40972-c

We've got Jumbo and the impressively towering town hall standing proud on the horizon.

But if one thing gets Big Brother's Little Brother presenter Dermot O'Leary's goat about his hometown, it's the BT tower in the town centre - a rather unflattering blot on the landscape in his eyes.

The former Radio Essex DJ and Colchester boy-done-good hates it - so much so that if he had his way it would be shown no mercy.

Asked which building would be for the chop in a question-and-answer interview called If I Ruled The World, O'Leary said: "There's the BT tower in Colchester. The town has got quite a pretty skyline, but then there's this horrible kind of 1960s-style building that my poor dad had to work in for ten years."

Published Friday, February 11, 2005

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