The committee tasked with researching the benefits of or alternatives to a third runway at Heathrow face no easy challenge. 

At the risk of making London sound like a box of kitchen implements, the latest addition to the landmark skyscrapers is set to be ‘the Scalpel’. This joins The Shard, the Cheesegrater, and the Gherkin. This latest building – tall, thin and angled – will be situated near the now-quaintly named St Pauls Cathedral. Work is to begin shortly and it is anticipated that the 35-storey building will be completed in 2017,the intention being for it to house the European headquarters of the owners, US insurance company W R Berkley Corporation.