Monthly Archives: April 2015

Historic former Dudley post office up for sale

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PUBLISHED: April 11, 2015 4:59 pm A historic former post office in Dudley is up for sale - in a move taking it a step closer to being transformed into apartments. The former post office on Wolverhampton Street in Dudley The four-storey Edwardian building, on the corner of Wolverhampton Street and Priory Street, is earmarked for new homes after plans were approved last year. The freehold is now being advertised for sale by Colliers International. No price Read more [...]

Landbeach Tudor tithe barn £250k appeal bid launched

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The trust hopes the barn will be used for weddings, dances, community events and school visits An appeal to save a "one-of-a-kind" Grade II-listed tithe barn from redevelopment has been launched.Tithe Barn Trust aims to raise £250,000 in order to restore the building in Landbeach, Cambridgeshire.Owner South Cambridgeshire District Council has agreed "in principle" to transfer responsibility for its upkeep to the trust.The council Read more [...]

Holy Trinity Church in Theale get Government cash to repair the roof

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A Grade One-listed church once sketched by John Constable is to receive a substantial grant from the Government to repair the roof. Holy Trinity Church in Theale is to be given a cash grant of £85,200 from a government scheme set up to help restore listed religious buildings in urgent need of repair. The funding will mean Holy Trinity Church, which was consecrated in 1832 and modelled on Salisbury Cathedral, can restore its roof and upgrade its drainpipes. Over the last three years, Holy Trinity’s Read more [...]

Purported Aaron Hernandez Jailhouse ID Listed For Sale Online

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BOSTON (CBS) – What a seller claimed to be the jailhouse identification card of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez was posted for sale online. An eBay listing was posted on Friday showing a laminated badge complete with identifying information and a photo of Hernandez, who is currently in prison during his trial for the murder of Odin Lloyd. The online listing title claimed that the item is Hernande’z Suffolk County jail identification card. An eBay listing that was selling Read more [...]

Two tremendous properties for sale in Twyford

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The ancient village of Twyford, on the banks of the River Itchen, three miles south of Winchester, is one of Hampshire’s loveliest villages, heir to a monastic and scholarly tradition dating back to the 7th century, when it was part of the Hundred Hides of Chilcomb granted to the church at Winchester. These days, it boasts a highly regarded prep school and easy access to London by train from Winchester or via the nearby M3 motorway. At the time of the Domesday survey, there were two manors Read more [...]

Planning battle in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth is ‘costly mess’

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The house which remains without planning permission, which the planning inspector described as having a 'dominating effect' on listed Newton's Chapel, in the foreground. A planning battle lasting seven years appears to have come to an end in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, with the Planning Inspectorate overturning decisions by South Kesteven District Council. It concerns the Daraton development of six houses on Newton Read more [...]

Riviera Travel, Wetmore Road, Burton listed as number 20 on Sunday Times …

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Comments (0) AN East Staffordshire firm has been rewarded for its success after it was named in a league table celebrating business growth.Riviera Travel, based in Wetmore Road, Burton, has been listed 20th in the Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100 league table.The company, which has been selling tours and cruises to customers for more than 30 years, has seen its profits grow an average of 83 per cent a year over the last three years to £9.9 million in 2013.Managing Read more [...]

Scott Walker Once Listed Effort To "Tighten Gun Laws" On "Legislative …

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker once touted his achievements as a member of the state assembly in “tightening gun laws” for people who committed felony-equivalent offenses or were committed as juveniles. Two gun control measures led the list of Walker’s legislative accomplishments on a version of Walker’s 2002 legislative biography page — “About Scott” — maintained by the Internet Archive. “In 1994, Walker pushed through two measures to tighten gun laws. One measure Read more [...]

Outrage over plans to demolish Grade I listed crescent designed by Buckingham …

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Developer's plans to build 73 luxury flats has angered residents who live nearby Park Crescent West in LondonThey claim that noise and disruption caused by the building work could last five years and will ruin their livesThe crescent was originally designed by John Nash, who also created Buckingham Palace, in the early 19th centuryPlans to remove the crescent's facade and replace it with something more historically correct and accurateBy Sam Tonkin For Mailonline Published: 14:57 GMT, Read more [...]