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There’s “nary a spadeful of dirt dug for a major development in Arlington that doesn’t have Art Walsh’s imprint on it,” The Washington Post wrote in 1982.

“With every spadeful we were burying our story - our story as an Upper Missouri country people,” Lindberg said.

That money is gone, wasted, without a spadeful of dirt being turned for a 55-mile highway so little needed that I previously dubbed it the Road for Nobody.

This week the BBC threw another spadeful of dirt on the grave by decreeing in its latest style guide that Fleet Street was no longer a useful synonym for the print media.

They borrowed a shovel from one of the nearby houses and hit metal with the first spadeful of dirt.