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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Calls to scrap ‘crumbling’ hall’s listed status
PUBLISHED: December 29, 2015 2:00 pm
An MP is in talks to have the listed status of a ‘crumbling’ hall scrapped because it is being used to justify a green belt development, she claims.
Great Barr Hall
Builders who want to create a luxury housing estate in the grounds of Great Barr Hall insist they would need the cash from the development to pay for the former mansion’s restoration.They say the 18th century building is so dilapidated after Read more [...]
Fire hits Grade-II listed 17th-century building used as swingers’ club
Firefighters have been battling a blaze at a listed 17th century building which has seen more recent use as a swingers' venue.
The two-storey Stratford House in Birmingham, which bears the date 1601 on its front door lintel, suffered damage to its timber roof beams and upper rooms after fire broke out at about 11pm on Monday.
Fire and police investigators have been at the scene but the cause remains unknown.
In January, the Grade-II listed building in Stratford Place was transformed into the Tudor Read more [...]
5 Events That Significantly Affected Christians in 2015
(Photo: Twitter)An image of a 3-year-old drown Syrian boy, identified as Aylan Kurdi, was tweeted on Sept. 2, 2015, after he washed up face-down on a Turkish beach after the he, his father and 5-year-old brother were trying to flee to the Greek island of Kos.Police shootings, urban riots, terrorist attacks, civil wars, refugees pouring across borders — 2015 offered no shortage of events to lament. It also gave us reasons to rejoice: the World Bank announced significant reductions in extreme poverty, Read more [...]
Dairy Crest finally closes sale of dairies to Muller
Dairy Crest’s decision to withdraw from UK dairies comes at a time when its chief executive, Mark Allen, is aiming to push into the lucrative global baby milk formula market. Dairy Crest’s dairies business contributed over £143m in losses over the past four years and Mr Allen has said that the plunging milk prices has meant that milk production would be better off in the hands of privately owned companies, rather than a listed company. Dairy Crest was originally created by the Milk Marketing Read more [...]
Fire dangers lurk beneath the charms of Suffolk’s period buildings
11:10 29 December 2015
Emma Brennan
The destruction at Cupola House in Bury St Edmunds, caused by fire. Picture taken from an aerial ladder.
Mariam Ghaemi
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Castle owners have vision to bring beauty back to gardens
Planners have approved “a vision” to improve the setting of an A-listed Angus castle.
Gardyne Castle was built as a 16th Century fortified tower by the Gardyne family of Leys, and was developed as a country house over the next two centuries by the Lyells of Dysart, whose descendants owned the estate until the 1960s.Owner William Gray Muir and his wife have spent several years redeveloping the walled garden to sit alongside neighbouring estate Read more [...]
UK floods: Looters target flooded homes as Storm Frank batters Britain with …
Homes have been left without power and air passengers delayed as Storm Frank began to batter the UK on its way towards flood-hit areas.
The latest storm to sweep the country caused widespread disruption in Northern Ireland, with thousands of homes experiencing power cuts.
It is set to pour more misery on flood-ravaged homeowners in northern England today, with officials warning them to brace themselves for further damage from torrential rain and gale-force winds.
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‘It took us eight years to renovate this beautiful Old Hall at Brandon… and …
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A painstaking eight years has seen The Old Hall in Brandon take on a new lease of life thanks to retired duo Ian Blacklock and Shaun Langley, where its secrets and stories have been preserved for hundreds of years to come... From the limestone and ironstone bands which embellish the age-old walls, to a heavy-set wooden front door and the garden's mulberry trees planted by royal hands, no inch of Ian Blacklock and Shaun Langley's home – The Old Read more [...]
GAMCO Reports the Results of its Offer to Purchase All Outstanding 5.875 …
RYE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GAMCO Investors, Inc. (GAMCO) (NYSE:GBL) today announced that following
the expiration of its offer to purchase for cash up to US$100 million
aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 5.875% Senior Notes due
June 1, 2021 (the “Notes”), $75,775,000 of the Notes were tendered
pursuant to the Offer.
The Offer, which commenced and is dated November 18, 2015, expired at
5:00 p.m., New York City time on December Read more [...]