Monthly Archives: May 2015

Lady Violet’s Downton Abbey home up for sale at £3.95 million

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For Downton Abbey fans, news that the home of Maggie Smith’s character – the dowager Lady Violet Crawley – is up for sale would be most pleasing.With series five – the show’s penultimate season – set to be screened in September, the property brokers Savills are hoping now is the perfect time to market Byfleet Manor in Surrey. The Grade II-listed house has featured as Lady Violet’s house since 2010. The eight-bedroom property, which mostly dates from 1686, has four reception rooms and Read more [...]

Motherwell quartet set to leave after being listed as free agents

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Motherwell's Iain Vigurs, Paul Lawson, Simon Ramsden and Stuart Carswell look set leave the club after being listed as free agents ahead of the summer transfer window. The four players are among more than a dozen who are out of contract at Fir Park after the current campaign draws to a close and have advertised their availability on the PFA website. Defender Ramsden returned to the side in last Friday's 3-1 win over Kilmarnock after he lost his place while out suspended six Read more [...]

House prices ‘a national emergency’, RICS warns

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The Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has warned that rising house prices are in danger of becoming a "national emergency". House prices are rising at the fastest rate since August last year while the supply of homes coming on to the market fell more swiftly than any time since 2009. RICS urged the prime minister to do more to support the construction of new homes "in unusually forceful language", Reuters reports. "The affordability and availability of homes in the UK is now Read more [...]

Museums at Night: highlights around Britain

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The Royal College of Music presents Museums at Night, Fulham Palace, London May 15 Musicians will transport visitors back in time with vignette performances, through a range of musical genres and historical instruments. The performances will highlight some of Palace’s most interesting stories with atmospheric pieces from the Tudor, Georgian, and Victorian eras. Museums at Night •Quiz: How well do you know Great Britain? Nature Late: The Horniman Museum, London May 14 Contemporary artists Read more [...]

Royal High School could become top concert venue

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St Mary's Music School is trying to take over The Old Royal High School. Picture: Neil Hanna NEW public venues for world-class concerts would be created in one of Edinburgh’s most celebrated buildings if a music school is allowed to take it over, its backers have announced. The debating chamber created in the former Royal High School for a potential Scottish Parliament would instead become one of three performances Read more [...]

Peter Kennard: A very unofficial war artist

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His art has been inspired by protest movements - but Peter Kennard says his aim is not to create propaganda. His eye-catching work is now on show at the Imperial War Museum in London. Best known for the distinctive photography montages from the early decades of his career, Peter Kennard's later works have seen him try new techniques - as technology advanced. Kennard's Decoration series of giant paintings, which combine digital prints worked over in oil, were created as a direct response Read more [...]