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Pay £25 to climb into Orbit? Even Kapoor thinks it's steep

Reported by Independent on Friday, 11 May 2012 (on May 11, 2012)
Independent
It was conceived in a cloakroom at Davos, during an encounter between the Mayor of London and Britain's richest man. Three years after Boris Johnson asked Lakshmi Mittal, the steel magnate, to finance a tower at the Olympic Park, the men played happy families yesterday as the Orbit was delivered to a far from doting city.

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