Victorian vents and Roman roads

Gas lighting Westminster City Council has announced that it has halted controversial plans to convert the central London borough’s gas lamps to LED versions, something that the council said was necessary to tackle global warming and cut down on maintenance costs (see ‘Sherds’, CA 383). Rachael Robathan, leader of Westminster City Council, said that work was being suspended so that the council could ‘take time to talk to local people and conservation groups’, though any idea that this might lead to a reversal of policy was undermined by her comment that the aim was ‘to ensure that where new electric lights go in, they are as faithful to the original as possible’. Sadly, th