Monthly Archives: August 2014

Alleged Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9983 Specs Listed

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This throwback monstrosity is supposedly the Porsche Design BlackBerry P'9983, a phone that'll combine a 720 x 720 pixel 3.1-inch display with 2GB of RAM and a 1.5GHz dual-core processor. Shame it looks like... that. BBIN's supposed spec sheet for the P'9983 claims the latest BB QWERTY phone will arrive with a 2100mAh removable battery, dual cameras (2MP and 8MP), 64GB of onboard storage and version 10.3 of the BB10 OS. Given that the super-rich have moved on to crystal-covered iPhones, Read more [...]

Listed stocks and stone stolen from outside church

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HISTORIC Grade II listed stocks and a number of York flag stones have been stolen from outside a church. The wood from the 18th century stocks and the slabs outside the Church of St John the Baptist in Broughton, Preston, were stolen over the weekend.Police and the church are now appealing for anyone with information to get in touch.According to English Heritage the village stocks with two shouldered slabs, two wooden beams with housing for two occupants and metal shackles.The Read more [...]

Nasty, brutish and tall

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PRESTON bus station was earmarked for demolition in 1999. Instead, last year, English Heritage added it to a list of protected buildings. The structure—a hulking piece of 1960s brutalism—is not to everyone’s taste. The inside evokes a municipal swimming pool, or perhaps an airport terminal. The outside resembles a stack of tin trays. “Uncomfortable,” says Peter Rankin, a city councillor, who opposed campaigns to save it, although he admits impressive views can be seen from the top. Read more [...]

Stafford listed building to be converted into retirement flats

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Comments (0) A GRADE II listed building will soon be retirement apartments after planners approved plans to transform Stafford’s Green Hall. McCarthy and Stone Retirement Lifestyles Ltd will demolish prefabricated buildings surrounding the Lichfield Road site and build a new block housing 45 apartments. There will also be a 40-space car park and the listed building will be converted into eight homes. A small block of three mews houses Read more [...]

Horsham War Memorial granted listed status

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The War Memorial in the Carfax, Horsham, has been listed at Grade II as part of an English Heritage scheme to list up to 500 war memorials a year over the next five years to mark the centenary of the First World War. The English Heritage scheme has the backing of Culture Secretary, Sajid Javid, who leads for the Government on First World War commemorations. The memorial was designed by local architect Claude Kay and unveiled by Major General Young, Colonel of the Royal Sussex regiment, in 1921. The Read more [...]

Staff at Jesmond nursing home Abbeyfield House fined for bizarre bed bonfire

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Care home bosses and a gardener have been fined after a bed was set alight in a bizarre back garden bonfire.Thick black smoke billowed over houses in Jesmond, Newcastle, when a care home’s gardener set fire to a bed base, cushions and a chest of drawers in an apparent controlled fire at Abbeyfield House on Castle Farm Mews.Pottery, metal, tin-foil, wiring, electrical flex, cloth and glass tubing with potentially toxic parts were also found to have been flung on the flames when Newcastle City Council Read more [...]

Police at scandal-hit force ‘try to disprove victims’, says watchdog

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Officers in the Yorkshire police force at the centre of the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal spend a “great deal of time” trying to “disprove” the word of victims, according to the policing watchdog. Just days after the scale of abuse was exposed in the town earlier this week, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has hit out at an “unacceptable” culture within South Yorkshire Police’s public protection unit that shows “a disregard for Read more [...]