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Greenwich should be as treasured as the Pyramids and Versailles according to architectural historian Dan Cruickshank.

For Cruickshank, who was at the opening of the Discover Greenwich museum last week, the Old Royal Naval College is a jewel in London's crown, and something Londoners should never take for granted.

BOOK
The Secret History Of Georgian London
by Dan Cruickshank
Random House, £25

IN A NUTSHELL
The TV historian assesses how the wages of sin percolated through the London economy

The War of words is still raging over the future of Poplar's Robin Hood Gardens estate.

But the Government remains tight-lipped on whether it will reverse its decision not to list the brutalist building.