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Khabdina, there's the rub. Schools ARE falling down, hospital wards are at capacity, nursery places are being restricted because - as we keep being told by this Government - there 'simply isn't the money' - we are living in 'austere times'. As a tiny example - our local nursery struggled to muster a tiny amount of money from Hampshire County Council (about £250k) in these straightened times to replace its crumbling 1950s building - meaning it can only afford smaller premises, leading to a 10% reduction in the number of children it can accommodate.

Meanwhile, we have Boris, Lumley & Heatherwick putting forward a vanity bridge in a location where its not needed, under a bizarre premise (a park over a river? What?!!!), blocking views up & downstream (thereby undermining the whole genius loci of a city on a river).

I'm sure trophy projects like these play hugely to BoJo's favoured audience, non-resident, overseas high net wealth property speculators (preferably Russians or Chinese at the moment) but I'm yet to be convinced of its wider merits. On that basis, I'm somewhat ambivalent between this and a Typhoon.