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Screen to tackle skyscraper glare

A temporary scaffold screen is to be set up to prevent intense bright light being reflected from a London skyscraper known as Walkie Talkie and onto nearby streets. It has allegedly caused cars to partially melt and started fires.

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Skyscraper acts like 'magnifying glass' says car owner

The driver of a car which melted in the intense heat generated by reflections from the Walkie Talkie skyscraper said that the building acted like a 'magnifying glass'.

I think it's just like a magnifying glass, when you're a kid. You put the magnifying glass in the sun and it reflects onto a bit of paper or something and it burns it. I think that's what's happened to my car.

I've taken the car to Jaguar and Jaguar have turned round to me and said they've never seen anything like it. Their parts go into the oven and kilns to be sprayed and the heat in there is quite high so it really shouldn't have done this to the car.

I don't know what heat plastic starts to burn but it must have been some tremendous heat.

It's unbelievable.

– Martin Lindsay, owner of the Jaguar which melted

Mr Martin Lindsay was talking to LBC radio.

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