Monthly Archives: January 2015

Best Of Londonist: Silver Vaults, Listed Catteries And Tube History

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Your Sunday morning best-of-Londonist weekly round-up. If you like it, please share it and forward to a friend.  An old style London bus in Beckenham. Photo: Lgee Faure London News More commuter angst this week. Speaking of which, how did the bus strike affect you? The new Tottenham Court Road station has opened and we’ve got pictures. Shiny! Stephen Fry makes plea to Soho developers to preserve the area’s artistic community City Hall loans £10m to renovate empty properties and create 400 Read more [...]

Pressure grows on housing regulator to explain inaction over R&D-built homes

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The builder - which also had an "above average" credit-risk rating at the time of the award - went into administration in April 2011, leaving discontented tenants, laid-off workers and unpaid local tradesmen, some of whom went out of business as a result. Asked by SNP South Scotland MSP Joan McAlpine why the regulator had not responded to tenant complaints about RD-built houses, Cameron said: "We have received no complaints from tenants of the houses involved in the situation with DGHP. We have Read more [...]

British startups: Develop your US operations and meet VCs on the Like Minds …

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If you’ve been giving some thought to expanding your British startup into America, you might consider participating in the upcoming Like Minds digital and mobile mission to New York. It’s £1,500 per company (plus your hotel/flight) which, when you read down the list of events and benefits, looks like rather serious value — not least the opportunity to have the highly connected Like Minds team (and the UK Trade Industry team) working on your behalf to get you connected. If there’s a particular Read more [...]

Times Gone By: Curtain twitching was the toll story

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Comments (0) CURTAIN-twitching, that preoccupation with people we dub as nosey parkers, would have been the daily lot of a group of people whose jobs were a vital part of life in past centuries. Toll house keepers were the folk employed by trusts to collect monies from people using the whole network of roads throughout the UK, including Staffordshire. The cash they collected would be used to maintain roads which would otherwise fall into Read more [...]

Listed buildings of Brixton: Grand houses at 213-225, Brixton Road, SW9

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We’ve set ourselves the task of documenting all the listed buildings of Brixton, and although it’s a project that will probably takes us years to complete, we hope to keep on adding new photo features every few weeks or so. Our latest update features the Grade II listed strip of buildings on Brixton Road in north Brixton, close to the junction with Mostyn Road . Dating from the early-mid C19, the entire strip covering numbers 213 to 225 enjoy Grade II listed protection. The listing Read more [...]

Holocaust posters defaced amid ‘heightened concern’ for UK Jewish community

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Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, the National Policing Lead for Counter Terrorism, revealed that there were 327 arrests in 2014 for terrorist offences – up by 32 per cent since 2013.

In a briefing given after last week’s attacks in Paris, Mr Rowley said the “global picture” of extremist activity had raised serious concerns for the safety of the UK’s Jewish community, with “continuing anti-Semitic rhetoric” emerging.

Police concerned about threat to UK Jewish community

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Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, the National Policing Lead for Counter Terrorism, revealed that there were 327 arrests in 2014 for terrorist offences – up by 32 per cent since 2013.

In a briefing given after last week’s attacks in Paris, Mr Rowley said the “global picture” of extremist activity had raised serious concerns for the safety of the UK’s Jewish community, with “continuing anti-Semitic rhetoric” emerging.

Historic houses for sale

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As the experts keep telling us, what the housing market hates above all else is uncertainty. The year ahead promises that by the shed-load, but at least a few intrepid country-house vendors have taken the bull by the horns and put their properties on the market in January, with a view to finding a buyer before the General Election brings trading to a halt in May. The sale, for the first time in 55 years, of pretty Rodborough House (Fig 2) on the edge of the popular Thames-side village of Shiplake, Read more [...]

31 stunning images inside the oldest church in Warwickshire

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After events like the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, here’s an extraordinary place with a sense of real perspective.Nestled on a striking hilltop in Wootton Wawen close to the River Alne (once the Alwen), the Grade I listed building is known as The Saxon Sanctuary.Dating back to least the 10th century means it has borne witness not just to the First and Second World Wars, but the 1066 Battle of Hastings and the issuing of the peace-making Magna Carta charter in 1215.And all the wars from the Read more [...]