Monthly Archives: June 2015

Easy Listed win for Connecticut – Racinguk.com

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Easy Listed win for Connecticut Sunday 21 June 2015 A lengthy absence was not nearly enough to stop Connecticut making a successful reappearance in the totepool Pontefract Castle Stakes.Luca Cumani's four-year-old racked up a hat-trick of victories last season, scoring at Newbury, York and Newmarket before returning to the Knavesmire to finish third in the Melrose Stakes.He failed to fire on his final appearance Read more [...]

Temptress handed Listed aim – Racinguk.com

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Temptress handed Listed aim Sunday 21 June 2015 Roger Charlton is eyeing a return to Ascot next month for Temptress following her narrow reverse in the Royal Hunt Cup.The four-year-old already has two victories at the Berkshire track to her credit and very nearly completed the hat-trick in one of the most fiercely competitive handicaps of the season, going down by just a neck to Gm Hopkins.Charlton's next objective Read more [...]

Ministers To Sell Stake In State’s Green Bank

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By Mark Kleinman, City Editor Ministers are poised to sanction an inaugural sale of shares in the Government's Green Investment Bank (GIB), a state-backed lender to green infrastructure projects, in a move that will accelerate the Conservatives' £50bn post-Election privatisation spree. Sky News has learnt that advisers from Bank of America Merrill Lynch have been drawing up plans with Whitehall Read more [...]

Kate Macintosh: one of Britain’s great unsung architects of social housing

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In a delightful courtyard garden in south London, a woman in her late 70s is speaking with calm fury. “The steamroller of big finance,” she says, “is being allowed, no, encouraged, progressively to crush out all innovative and creative, locally generated activities.” She is furious because this garden, with its fig, eucalyptus and banana trees, is now considered, in effect, to be a brownfield site, and that it and the houses round it are therefore ripe for redevelopment. With them, everything Read more [...]

Free And Cheap London Events: 22-28 June 2015

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All Week City of London Festival is back CITY OF LONDON FESTIVAL: The City of London will be crammed with music, comedy, cabaret, performance, film and more for three weeks for City of London Festival. Some events free, see programme for details, 22 June-10 July TRAVELLING ARCHIVE: The Travelling Archive is an exhibition of sounds, texts and images, all taken from a research, documentation and dissemination project in Bangladesh, West Bengal and other adjoining parts of eastern India, as well Read more [...]

Beerhunter: The secret to this Derbyshire pub’s success? Detailed planning…

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Comments (0) ALEX Wilbraham is up to March 2016 with her plans for the Holly Bush at Makeney.That's plans to make the most of events which will be coming up between now and then, plans to instigate events at the pub, plans generally for how to keep the pub one of the finest in Derbyshire (it is the current Amber Valley pub of the year and they're waiting to see how they do in the county-wide contest).When I hit upon the idea of looking at what successful Read more [...]

1960s playground fish sculpture is listed gem

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It’s Birmingham’s most unusual playground – and now this wacky fish sculpture has been saved for generations of children. Dating from 1960, the Grade II-listed landmark in Curtis Gardens, Acocks Green, is the only surviving play sculpture created for the city by artist John Bridgeman. Part of a post-Second World War drive to make artwork more accessible to children, Bridgeman said in a 1961 article that sculpture appeared to youngsters a “remote, ‘arty’ grown-up aberration associated Read more [...]

The Pig Near Bath is a Grade II-listed building that used to be Hunstrete Hotel

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The hotel is a Grade II-listed building that used to be Hunstrete HotelIt's a creation of Robin Hutson, who launched the Hotel du Vin chainA 25-mile rule is in place for all ingredients, and the menu changes hourlyBy The Inspector Published: 10:36 GMT, 20 June 2015 | Updated: 12:24 GMT, 20 June 2015 1 View comments Rating: Here at last. You can't find a berth Read more [...]