That's right, the 'Help Me' hit-maker has single handedly saved an historic water tower in Warrington*.
Developers had planned to tear down a lully water tower and replace it with a car park. During a recent council meeting Clr Geoff Settle (LAB - Poulton North) said: “I don’t want to be looking back in 12 months time only to be quoting the words of Joni Mitchell saying ‘don’t it always seem to be you don’t know what you’ve got till its gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot’.”

The committee voted unanimously to refuse the applications.

Hurrah!

Here's Joni

*might not be factually correct