English Heritage is insisting its £5m Tintagel footbridge scheme will be ready later this summer despite busting this month’s opening deadline.

The Cornish bridge, which was designed by Shard architect William Matthews Associates and Belgian civil engineering firm Ney & Partners, was due to have opened this month - already a postponement of the original May opening date.

But the scheme has been hit by delays with Georgia Butters, English Heritage head of historic properties Cornwall, telling BD: "The new footbridge at Tintagel Castle is a complex feat of engineering with multiple components requiring individual, specialist fabrication and this process takes time.”

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