10 years of the light festival Lumiere, back to the best installations

 The 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, known to generations as ‘the man on the horse’ is no stranger to controversy. An Eton-educated MP

and Lord-Lieutenant ofthe county, he was also considered a brutal oppressor of the miners employed in his pits.

 More recently his statue has been the subject of local debate, with ahotly-contested battle over whether it should be removed,

or moved at all, and if so, which way the horse’s derriere should face in greeting pedestrians entering the Market Place.

 Now the French artist Jacques Rival brought the controversial equestrian monument

galloping into the twenty-first century with his mischievous and playful tribute a monumental

dome that will cover the statue, which will be engulfed in billowing ‘snow’, like the snow shakers we all enjoyed as children.