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10/12   Fold up bridge:
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www.newspad.co.uk/Go/News/lateststories/bridgefive.htmPaddington Development Corporation has just unveiled, or rather unrolled, a startling new pedestrian bridge which crosses an inlet from the Basin in front of the new Marks and Spencer headquarters. PICTURE 2 Paddington Basin staff pressed a few buttons and it started to bend and r ise in what the designer Thomas Heatherwick describes as a 'sensuous man ner'. PICTURE 5 It's all done by a fiendishly clever system of hydraulic rams inside the handrail. So, it can be rolled up when M&S want to bring a hospitality b oat into the inlet. The Rolling Bridge has encountered no snags unlike another high-tech arti stic construction, the bouncing Hungerford Bridge on the Thames, and it seems able to take most loads with ease.