The new blue building next to the old Magazine Gateway is a real shame - it dwarfs and renders almost irrelevant the Gateway, which was a real landmark in that part of town. Of course, the 60s cut an ugly swathe right through the old Medieval heart of the city - not to mention the Roman forum etc that were carved up at the time. The most archaeologically and historically important bit of the city was effectively marginalised and much of it was lost. Which is really shit. I didn't realise it was things like that which underpinned the protests about Bowstring Bridge.

I hadn't really been in Leicester very much for the past few years, but now I'm doing a bit of teaching at DMU again, I cannot believe just how much the city has changed in that short time.