Thomas Heatherwick design to change Chinese view of Britain

A 20 metre high Thomas Heatherwick structure at Shanghai Expo will show Britain at the cutting edge in design and business Britain may have spawned the Swinging Sixties, punk, Cool Britannia and numerous hot designers in the past 50 years, but for many Chinese, it's still a place where Oliver Twist is stumbling through a pea-souper, and horsedrawn carriages clatter along the cobbles. The British government has set itself the task of changing that perception forever, by wowing the 70 million visitors...