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Revealed: The most expensive houses sold in Huddersfield and Calderdale

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The most expensive house sold in Huddersfield in October was bought for £865,000. Prices listed by the Land Registry have revealed the most expensive houses in Kirklees and Calderdale snapped up in October. Topping the Huddersfield list was a detached, five-bedroom house in Denby Lane, Upper Denby, with four bathrooms and two reception rooms. So far, 25,088 residential sales have been registered from October 2015 — however sales completed in late October may not be listed yet, as it can take Read more [...]

Horsham gran short-listed for best neighbour award

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A Horsham grandmother is in the running to take the title of Best Neighbour in the UK. Frances Waring, who lives at Anchor’s Chesterton Court in Manor Fields, was nominated by her neighbours for always going the extra mile to help.Almost 300 nominations were sent in for the Happy Living Awards run by Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit care and housing provider. The awards were launched in August with six categories: Green Fingered Customer, Best Read more [...]

National Churches Trust awards listed Scottish church with £40000

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One of the most impressive churches built in the UK in the mid 20th century, the redbrick fortress of St Bride’s Roman Catholic church, has been awarded a £40,000 grant to help restore it to its original appearance. The church has been described as a Scottish version of the then fashionable “brutalist” style, usually in concrete, but executed in red brick in 1962-3 by the influential architectural firm Gillespie, Kidd and Coia in the post-war new town of East Kilbride. It has won many architecture Read more [...]

The Globalization Of Local Holidays: China’s Singles’ Day Catches On In US

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Christmas. Hannukah. Kwanzaa. Festivus. As e-commerce retailers are in the throes of prime holiday shopping bidding wars, there may be a case to add even more holidays to our plans. If you’re a marketer, you probably took note of the news that November 11, China’s Singles’ Day, broke worldwide sales records with $14.3 billion in gross sales — equivalent to seven times the volume Cyber Monday generated in 2014. We were curious about the impact this Chinese event Read more [...]

Last Christmas for Willaston’s Hadlow Road Station?

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Last Christmas for Willaston's Hadlow Road Station? In what may turn out to be the last public event at Hadlow Road Station for a long time, possibly ever, its Friends group invited the residents of Willaston and beyond to join them for a Christmas celebration on Sunday December 13th.Attendees of all ages braved the rather chilly, wet afternoon, to enjoy entertainment from the Handbag of Harmonies Choir, led by musical director Matt Baker, and the City of Chester band, along Read more [...]

Mark Driscoll Listed as Director of Newly Incorporated The Trinity Church in …

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The next big thing appears to be just around the corner.Mark Driscoll is listed as a director of recently registered The Trinity Church in Phoenix, along with Randall Taylor and Jimmy Evans. The address is the same UPS store listed as the Mark Driscoll Ministries address (the church has a different box number):Mark Driscoll Ministries21001 North Tatum Blvd Ste 1630-527Phoenix, AZ 85050Click here for the Articles of Incorporation. According to the incorporation document, The Trinity Church will Read more [...]

Listed: Forget the Force

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Next week the seventh episode of George Lucas's famed space saga will be released on a wave of hype and eager anticipation. Star Wars: The Force Awakens no longer has Lucas at the helm, the man with the Jar Jar Binks way with words having passed his company to Disney and the creative mantle to others, in the first instance JJ Abrams. We can expect homage and nostalgia accompanied by a frisson of fresh faces and new tricks. It ought to be a blast.But for whom, exactly? Star Wars was a groundbreaking Read more [...]

Leeds nostalgia: The village that time doesn’t change

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There are some parts of Leeds which just do not seem to age and the Moravian Village at Fulneck is one of them, as our ‘then and now’ pictures show. Even today, members of the Moravian Church do not have televisions and lead a relatively simple life compared to most. The community stands on the border between Leeds and Bradford, with panoramic views across rolling fields. Pudsey, 19th February 1971Fulneck, Moravian Church. Members of the Moravian Church Read more [...]

Extreme weather is threatening more and more firms: they need better support

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In this season of goodwill, let us commend the Federation of Small Business for showing so much of it. On Friday, the group’s chairman, John Allan, had nothing but praise for staff and volunteers at the Environment Agency who have helped many of his members cope with the flooding of the past week or so. That was big of the FSB, which could have spent the day complaining about the way small businesses have been so poorly served by the Government on this issue. Let’s begin with the £51m Read more [...]

National Churches Trust awards Grade A listed Scottish church with £40000

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One of the most impressive churches built in the UK in the mid 20th century, the redbrick fortress of St Bride’s Roman Catholic church, has been awarded a £40,000 grant to help restore it to its original appearance. The church has been described as a Scottish version of the then fashionable “brutalist” style, usually in concrete, but executed in red brick in 1962-3 by the influential architectural firm Gillespie, Kidd and Coia in the post-war new town of East Kilbride. It has won many architecture Read more [...]