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• Chewing gum artist makes plea to save Millennium Bridge works

  05-10-2023 20:49
  
  Ben Wilson told most of his art on discarded gum to be removed during engineering and cleaning workAn artist who paints tiny pictures on discarded chewing gum has pleaded for his works to be saved after being told most of them will be removed from the Millennium Bridge in London as part of engineering work.Ben Wilson, nicknamed “the chewing gum man”, has been painting on pieces of chewing gum trodden into the bridge since 2013. Continue reading...
  
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• Well-maintained tower blocks are not bad places to live | Letters

  05-10-2023 19:14
  
  It is unfortunate that many of the architects who designed such housing are no longer appreciated, writes Nicholas RussellSimon Jenkins (Spare these London flats the wrecking ball. But no more eyesore tower blocks please, 28 September) points out the potential defects of tower blocks, and favours a return to Victorian terrace housing as a better solution to high-density living. It is certainly possible to build good terraced estates, although in his example of Goldsmith Street in Norwich, planni
  
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