Monthly Archives: March 2015

Last-ditch application to get iconic Derriford ship building listed in bid to …

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Comments (4) CAMPAIGNERS have launched a last-ditch bid to save the landmark ‘ship’ building in Derriford – by asking for it to be listed. Demolition could begin on the landmark £33.5million former Herald and Western Morning News headquarters within weeks, it has emerged. Its owners, Daily Mail and General Trust, says it can’t find a buyer and needs the award-winning 1993 building flattened so the site can be redeveloped. Read more [...]

Brierley Hill war memorial given Grade II listed status

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1 March 2015 Last updated at 11:33 The memorial, unveiled in 1921, stand at the top of a hill in Brierley Hill A war memorial described by English Heritage as an "eloquent witness to the tragic impacts of world wars" has been given Grade II listed status. The monument stands at the top of Church Hill in Brierley Hill, Dudley. It is topped by a statue based on a photograph of Stanley Harley, Read more [...]

Coffee group at café revived for LGBT community

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A monthly coffee group for Rushmoor’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community will be relaunched this month. Ricardo Lobo-Morell, from Farnborough , set up a LGBT coffee group in 2010, which ran successfully for a number of years, but it ceased in 2013 after numbers declined. However, after recognising a clear lack of LGBT groups in Hampshire, Mr Lobo-Morell, 39, is relaunching the group. He said: “I used to live in London where there was an abundance of LGBT events from bars, Read more [...]

Nostalgia: Scene of the ‘crime’

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Site of the Newnham Elm Back in 1975, Newnham’s oldest resident was pushed over, chopped up and finally set alight. But this wasn’t some gruesome crime, the resident was an elm tree which for generations had stood on the village green. And pictured here at the scene are some of the village’s youngsters who no doubt played around and in the old tree.The tree was found to be in bad health – rot had set in and there had Read more [...]

Top 10: The best country house hotels in England

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Read more: the best hotels in West Sussex Summer Lodge, Dorset On the edge of the village of Evershot, in the heart of Thomas Hardy’s Dorset. Decoration and style is the personal province of Beatrice Tollman and she tends towards the feminine and the flouncy. Here at Summer Lodge there are fabric covered ceilings and padded fabric walls, pictures of dogs, plenty of cushions and so on but they add up, in general, to a feeling of spoiling indulgence and do not, mercifully, overwhelm. The drawing Read more [...]

10 of the best cool new hotels in Wales

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Shepherd’s hut, Llangaffo, Anglesey The new shepherd’s hut at The Outbuildings, a restaurant with rooms on farmland near the beach, makes a cosy retreat for two. The bright-pink hideaway has a tiny wood-burning stove and great views of Snowdonia.• £75 a night BB, theoutbuildings.co.uk Mansion, Cardigan Bay, Ceredigion Caemorgan Mansion, Ceredigion This old mansion just outside Cardigan has been restored over the past three years and is now a five-star guesthouse with five rooms (three of Read more [...]