No doubt someone will tell me it's been there for ages, but I've just noticed the enormous and sinister-looking pole with a camera on the top outside William Hill's on the corner of Dartmouth Road and the South Circular. My blood froze. It dominates the town centre streetscape as you come down London Road, as in older, gentler times the beautiful Christ Church steeple used to - what a symbol of the way our society has changed! What's it for? Monitoring traffic, shopping red-light jumpers, watching me as I meet my mistress for a secret assignation in Wetherspoon's ? Who put it up, and on what authority? Was it subject to planning permission? I think we should be told.