As the creation of a new bridge across the Menai Strait is announced, Jules wonders if the new structure can live up to the triumphs of engineering that went before it

Amidst the frenzy of excitement and growing harvest of British medals being gathered at the Olympics in Rio this August, an announcement was made inWales that might give us something else to cheer about. After many years of the usual political chat and dithering, it seems that at last there’s a realistic hope that a new bridge may be cast over the Menai Strait, linking for a third time the Isle of Anglesey with the mainland.