Gherkins outside London available for £150,000

THE £640m asking price of London’s Gherkin building is far more than Gherkins are fetching outside the capital.

Prices range from £65m for the Gherkin in the centre of Manchester to only £152,395 for the Gherkin in Doncaster, which locals cheekily call “the Spearhead Dildo”.

Estate agent Eleanor Shaw said: “Why people insist on paying London’s over-inflated prices when there’s a perfectly good Gherkin in King’s Lynn I’ll never know.

“It’s not as if eye-catching 41-storey office buildings with 48,000 square metres of office space are thin on the ground. Every city in the UK’s got one.

“But unless it’s got a fancy London address nobody’s interested and they end up, like Aberystwyth’s Gherkin, abandoned skeletal ruins occupied only by seabirds.”

Planning minister Brandon Lewis admitted: “The 105 Gherkins in the UK are, in truth, a few Gherkins too many.

“The Gherkin in the Devon village of Appledore has enough office space for every living thing in a 40-mile radius. And Hull doesn’t need six.”