The holiest city in Islam is to get a £6bn facelift, it was announced yesterday, with homes and hills being flattened to make way for hotels, apartments, shopping malls and transport facilities for pilgrims. Is nothing precious anymore? Soon Mecca will be another sterile shopping-mall city with the Kaaba looking totally out of place. As I am not a practicing Muslim, I'm not allowed anywhere near Mecca anyway, but this story infuriates me.