Monthly Archives: March 2015

Republicans invite listed anti-gay hate group to testify to Congress

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An anti-gay hate group that regularly compares gay rights to the Holocaust has been invited to testify to Congress on ‘religious freedom’. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council was invited to testify before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing this week by the GOP, to speak about “protecting religious freedom abroad”. The group was invited despite being listed alongside the Ku Klux Klan and Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Read more [...]

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to launch Harborne Food School

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TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is in Birmingham today to launch the new Harborne Food School. The long-awaited venture is opening in The School Yard, a Grade II-listed clock tower building. For today’s launch the school is hosting a one-off street food market from Brum Yum Yum (which will also be out in force on Saturday for its monthly market in Kings Heath). What is Harborne Food School? Founded by public health nutritionist Shaleen Meelu and former PricewaterhouseCoopers director Robert Read more [...]

Community Pubs Month 2015: Shout about the value of your pub

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The Publican’s Morning Advertiser (PMA) has joined forces with the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) ahead of April’s Community Pubs Month to encourage licensees to remind customers just what makes having a local pub so valuable. More than 7,000 pubs will be contacted individually by CAMRA and they — along with readers of the PMA — are being encouraged to host events throughout next month to promote the importance of the local pub to their communities.CAMRA research Read more [...]

Leeds Law Society to leave Albion Place HQ

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Philip Jordan of Leeds Law Society ONE of the country’s oldest and most influential legal organisations is leaving its iconic home in the heart of the retail sector in Leeds in a deal which will secure its future and bring a major restaurant chain to the city. The Leeds Law Society has been based at 1 Albion Place for almost 100 years, but has agreed a 20-year lease at more modern and suitable premises in Wellington Read more [...]

Village’s landmark building goes back to the future in housing plan

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A LANDMARK listed building which has had a mixed use over many years is to be transformed back into one of the Wharfe Valley’s most prominent residential addresses. Burley House, in Burley in Wharfedale, sits in just over two acres of gardens and grounds between Ilkley and Otley, and was built in the late 18th century as an elegant mansion house with adjoining mews buildings and a coach house.For a time the property was home to The Flying Pizza before Read more [...]

Former WCVI building in Connellsville listed for sale on websites – Tribune

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The saga of the former WCVI building continues at 131-139 E. Crawford Ave. in Connellsville. Local residents and city officials are watching as the present owner, Leighton Simpson of Pompton Lakes, N.J., continues to list the building on several real estate websites. In October, Simpson told the Daily Courier that he was “just testing the water� by placing the ads on various sites. A check on Tuesday afternoon found the building listed on at least two, Craigslist Read more [...]

Indonesian House Listed For Sale With Free Wife ‘If You Buy At The Asking Price’

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Indonesian House Listed For Sale With Free Wife 'If You Buy At The Asking Price' Details Published on Wednesday, 11 March 2015 09:24 Bungalow offered for £50,000 – and the owner says she agreed to the idea because she was 'looking for a husband anyway'/Pic:IndependentIt probably already seems like a long time since International Women’s Day for the residents of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where a house has been put up for sale in an offer that includes a garage, a spacious back Read more [...]

Historic house near Airth has history – and a future

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Despite a seven year delay, plans to restore historic Dunmore Park House will be allowed to move forward Councillors are not ready to call time on a development that could save one of the grandest properties in the district from falling down. Plans to restore historic Dunmore Park House near Airth and build dozens of houses in the grounds were given permission by Falkirk Council seven years ago - but nothing has happened Read more [...]