A room without a view...

The winner of this year's Carbuncle Cup is truly astonishing: a huge modern building bizarrely set a metre behind a small 19th century facade; and because floors of the old and the new don't match up, the rooms at the front look out on a blank wall. It's not hard to see why the council refused it planning permission...

My first completed Pasquale

Another crossword milestone: my first successfully completed Pasquale. There was an awful lot of scrabbling and guesswork, but I got there in the end. Thanks, to 11a, I learnt something new in the process: from Some holy stranger encountered in place on missionary journey (6), I discovered St Paul's visit to Lystra.