Independent wine merchant Le Vignoble boosts business with extension of wine …

Plymouth independent wine retailer Le Vignoble is set to boost its focus on its wine lounge with the addition of a new ‘after-dinner’ area that will offer customers premium artisan spirits.Owner Yannick Loué, who won last year’s Harpers Award for Best Top Merchant of the Year, said the build would increase the size of the lounge by around 50%, and will house four 4 x bottle Enomatic machines to showcase premium artisan spirits.“We wanted to expand the Read more [...]

Le Vignoble boost business with new extension

Plymouth independent wine retailer Le Vignoble is set to boost its focus on its wine lounge with the addition of a new ‘after-dinner’ area that will offer customers premium artisan spirits.Owner Yannick Loué, who won last year’s Harpers Award for Best Top Merchant of the Year, said the build would increase the size of the lounge by around 50%, and will house four 4 x bottle Enomatic machines to showcase premium artisan spirits.“We wanted to expand the Read more [...]

LG G4 Images, Specifications Briefly Listed on Company Site

Couple of weeks ahead its April 28 launch, details of the LG G4 have been revealed with the brief surfacing over the weekend of a company micro-site dedicated to the smartphone. The official leak leaves little to the imagination of what the flagship might finally look like, and even includes a significant number of specifications.A Google Plus user Pedro Peguero Jr. (Valiant Pixels) first spotted the micro site, which now has been taken down. The website screenshots via Android Police indicate the Read more [...]

Couple who pimp vans for Madonna and Guy Ritchie snap up Valleys Art Deco …

AN art deco style house in Blackwood has been snapped up at auction for £200,000 by a local couple who previously refurbished transit vans for both Madonna and Guy Ritchie. Dayne and Julie Bartlett, from Ystrad Mynach, plan to invest a further £80,000 in Shangri La, a three-bed 1930s time warp property in Pontllanfraith that requires a complete refurbishment, in a bid to return it to its former glory. The double fronted house, which had a guide price of £170,000, was the Read more [...]

Family-friendly country houses for sale in Hampshire

One green shoot doesn’t make a recovery, but it’s good to hear that The Coach House (Fig 1) at Fullerton, near Stockbridge, has gone under offer within three weeks of its launch through Knight Frank and Jackson-Stops Staff, and reputedly for close to its £2.95 million guide price. Interestingly, of the various parties competing for the house, several had City connections, although the successful bidder was locally based, underlining the fact that the core country market in Hampshire is Read more [...]

Magna Carta sign points way to 800th anniversary celebrations

Odiham's Magna Carta anniversary celebrations got under way with the installation of specially-commissioned road signs. The signs, designed by a local artist, hail the village as ‘The Gateway to the Magna Carta Trail’ and were installed last week in Odiham and North Warnborough. They mark the start of celebrations to commemorate Odiham’s role in the signing of one of history’s most famous documents. VIEW GALLERY Jon Hale, chairman of Odiham Parish Council, described the town’s Read more [...]

Android 5.0 roll-out for T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 4 imminent; smartphone …

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 users having subscribed to T-Mobile's wireless network service in the US can check their handsets for the Android 5.0 (Lollipop) OS update, which has been officially listed for roll-out in the near future. According to a T-Mobile official listing, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 users would soon receive the Android 5.0 OS update. T-Mobile-driven Galaxy Note 4 users can check their devices for newer Read more [...]

LG G4 micro site surfaces with full device renderings, listed features, and more

Apparently, LG may have slipped up and left a trail to a new G4 micro site embedded within the source code of an official teaser page. The site showcases full renderings, marketing material, and more of LG’s upcoming G4 smartphone… The site provides detailed information about LG’s upcoming flagship. The specifications shown on the site are the G3’s (given away by the Android 4.4.2 mention and the camera specs), but it’s likely those are just a placeholder for the real deal Read more [...]

Revealed: The sleepy market town turned millionaire property hotspot

Tom Orford, a director at Savills, said: “Sudbury is benefitting from the 'Cambridge effect’. As property around the perimeter of Cambridge have become so expensive, people are moving into Suffolk.” Sudbury, a market town in the Stour Valley, also has a train station with reasonable commuter links into London. Mr Orford said: “It has classic, Georgian buildings which are commanding these premium figures.” One of these properties is Baberg Hall (pictured), which is on the market with Read more [...]