Bury St Edmunds is a market town in West Suffolk, East Anglia. The centre of town is set out on a medieval grid of streets, with an abbey and extensive gardens on its south- east side.

The abbey tower is a new creation, designed and built by local people. Visitors think it's just been cleaned; but it looks clean because it hasn't had a chance to get dirty yet.

Prince Charles was in town a couple of weeks ago with Camilla to declare it open.

The abbey gardens always look fantastic, but to coincide with the tower celebrations the current display looks particularly sprauncy.
There's been some agg about the tower, with critics wondering why we need a new gothic structure in the 21st century, and others arguing that local council tax payers shouldn't have to pay for spotlights to glorify a building owned by the wealthy Church of England. But anyone with a soul must concede it's a magnificent thing. You can't go up the tower, though, for health and safety reasons it seems. Don't get me started on that.