CAN any news story better sum up the challenges facing Winchester than the front page story?

http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/14711629._Biblical_punishment__for_burglar_Paul_Wild_who_raided_Winchester_Cathedral_and_crawled_away_with_two_broken_ankles/
Paul Wild, a drug addict, secreted himself overnight in the cathedral before stealing £10 from the collection box and then, finding himself locked in and without a plan B, kicked his way through a precious stained glass window after damaging the mortuary chests containing the bones of Saxon kings.
Wild tumbled 25 feet and fractured both ankles before crawling away to get a taxi home.
On one level an element of black humour is clear; but on another what an utterly pathetic and sobering tale about two sides of Winchester; the long-established church, and the new underclass which in the last 20 years has been destroyed by drug addiction.
Winchester is becoming a city of such contrasts; high-class restaurants within yards of the increasingly slum-like bus station; expensive cars cruising past people at bus stops; home-owners and the young.
Some people will shrug their shoulders but anyone with the interests of Winchester should be worried.
Just when some co-ordinated thinking would be welcome another gulf is emerging in politics with opponents quick to impugn the motives of people with whom they disagree.
The Chronicle would be interested to hear answers any readers may have.