BRUCE Springsteen, against whom I will not hear a bad word, had the plug pulled on his concert in Hyde Park because he'd gone on playing after Westminster Council told him to get to bed.

Consequently, scorn has been heaped upon the authorities, not least by Boris Johnson, a London tube, who said: "It sounds like an excessively efficacious decision. You won't get that during the Olympics. If they'd called me, my answer would have been for them to jam in the name of the Lord!"

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