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• We have outgrown the Houses of Parliament | Letters

  09-05-2022 17:16
  
  Westminster’s parliament buildings are archaic and inherently undemocratic argue Dr Louis Hellman, Mick Duncan, Lynne Armstrong and Jim McLeanI must agree with Charlotte Higgins’ article about the unsuitability of the Houses of Parliament (Of course there is abusive behaviour in parliament – the place was built for it, 4 May). It is a fine example of mid-Victorian civic mock-medieval gothic, but quite inappropriate and inhibiting for a modern democracy. We need a new semi-circu
  
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• Cumbrian council may reverse concrete infilling of Victorian bridge

  09-05-2022 07:00
  
  Safety work in Great Musgrave decried as ‘cultural vandalism’ may have to be undone despite National Highways saying it was neededThe UK government’s roads agency is facing hundreds of objections a week to its decision to bury a Victorian bridge arch under concrete in a move widely condemned as “cultural vandalism”.National Highways (NH) was forced to apply for retrospective planning permission for a decision last May to pour 1,000 tonnes of concrete and aggregate u
  
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