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• Total bollards: the iconic ‘eco-Blade Runner’ roundabout that became a grim £132m ‘abomination’

  12-09-2024 12:39
  
  Boasting hovering haloes and futuristic forests, Old Street roundabout was meant to be a shining beacon for Britain’s very own Tech City. Instead, we have120 hefty bollards and paving built to deter rough sleepersComputer-generated PR images often outshine reality, but rarely has so much been promised and so little delivered as at Old Street roundabout in east London, finally complete after more than a decade in the works. It was supposed to be the radiant hub of the UK’s very own Te
  
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• Country diary: A forgotten church that’s being returned to the earth | Alexandra Pearce-Broomhead

  12-09-2024 06:30
  Merther, Cornwall: For centuries, a small local population worshipped at St Cohan’s. Now it’s the ivy and thistles, ferns and avens that take their nourishment hereIn the hamlet of Merther, nature is concealing a secret. Wrapped in robes of ivy and traveller’s joy, the ruins of a 14th-century church are hidden among a small copse. Little remains of the original building; the crumbling outer walls have been slowly succumbing to wildlife ever since the church closed 80-odd y
  
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