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The most misleading news headline of the day goes to the Metro free paper with:Sark fire blamed on a cleanerIn reality, the fire that caused £10m of damage to the Cutty Sark last year wasn't caused by a person who cleans – but by an industrial vacuum cleaner that had accidentally been left on for two days.

BLUNDERING security guards have been partly blamed for the fire that ripped through Greenwich's Cutty Sark last year. A joint investigation into last May's blaze revealed an industrial vacuum cleaner is likely to have been responsible for the damage to the historic tea clipper.

Yo! The shipping magnate Sammy Ofer, who gave all that cash to the Maritime Museum a few months ago, has been digging into his pockets again. He's smashed the piggy bank, checked the back of the sofa and looked in the glove compartments of his sundry cars and scraped together £3.3m to make sure the old girl can complete her restoration.

To the Package Store Fearing that the smoking-and-cancer scare may be hazardous to theirfiscal health, cigarette makers have long been hedging their futures bytracking down merger opportunities. Lately, the trail has led to thepackage store. Liggett & Myers last year... Cancer 0

Straight off the press, folks. I emailed the Cutty Sark Trust yesterday about my idea for an Observation Platform - and have just received this from Julia Parker, Operations Manager: "Guess what? We will soon be having a viewing platform!It’s taken us a while to sort out the details, but hopefully

I've just had a thought. Every time I go past the Cutty Sark's boarded-up hulk, I see some one or other trying to peek through the little gap in the gate where the padlock goes. Sometimes there's even a little queue of nosy parkers trying to get a glimpse of what's going on - especially now there are interesting noises again.

Q: What do The Greenwich Phantom and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh have in common? A: When they went to the Historic Dockyards at Chatham they were both really only interested in seeing one thing - the bits and bobs of the Cutty Sark that are currently in storage there.

CANARY Wharf businesses could be set to help fund the Cutty Sark's historic face-lift. The world's last remaining tea clipper is just £3million away from meeting its £30million refurbishment target. And trustees are reportedly in discussions with two major Wharf businesses to support the re-birth of the Greenwich attraction, which was ravaged by fire in May last year.