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Look inside the Grade II listed Lyceum building on Bold Street

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Step inside the beautiful Grade II listed Lyceum - the stunning building that dominates the bottom end of Bold Street in Liverpool city centre. Built between 1800 and 1802, the site has a colourful history - with past uses including a library, a bar and a post office. Most of the building now lies unoccupied, with only the Co-op bank currently on-site. Locked away behind security fencing the huge chambers of the spectacular building host a series of fascinating features. From classical-style paintings Read more [...]

AIM-listed biotech firm Benchmark to buy shrimp food manufacturer Inve …

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Benchmark Holdings, which operates numerous sustainable biotechnology and agriculture companies, will tomorrow announce its takeover of fish food business Inve Aquaculture from Royal Bank of Scotland and Rabobank. AIM-listed Benchmark paid $342m (£225m) – $300m in cash and the rest in shares – for Inve, which manufactures nutrition and health products for shrimp nurseries in 70 countries. The acquisition, which has been three years in the pipeline, was funded by Read more [...]

Thousands dressed up in red-and-white for SantaCon 2015

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Revellers dressed in Santa Claus and other holiday-themed outfits take part in the annual SantaCon event in the Brooklyn borough of New York. SantaCon came to New York in 1998, when a "young San Franciscan strapped on a fake white beard, donned a $12 red suit, and led 200 Santas as they went caroling up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan," to the delight of passersby. (Source: Reuters) Read more [...]

Listed (or Liszt-ed): World’s 300 greatest singers

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The last time David Patmore showed me his record collection, he reckoned he had around 20,000 LPs. Eight years on, as we edge our tightly-squeezed way around one of the garages where he stores them, he has upped the total to “pushing 30,000”. Garages? Yes, two of them, and a sturdy shed, all piled high with records, mainly classical, floor to ceiling, great skyscrapers of them, a Manhattan of music. “It’s an addiction,” he admits, slightly ruefully. “No Read more [...]

Christmas Handbell Concert

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Academics show how you can save $20k on a house in Melbourne by buying in May

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You can save more than $20,000 when selling or buying a property in Sydney and Melbourne simply by choosing the right month, which new research shows is May or June for buyers and July for sellers.These are the findings of a first-ever study by three of Australia's leading universities - Monash, Griffith and Swinburne - which reveals the warmer months are no longer the domain of best property deals.Analysing property sales information from CoreLogic RP data over the past 20 years, professors Abbas Read more [...]

Your Dayton-area wine tastings and special events are right here

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I’m tardy in posting this, but the events listed for today (Saturday) and for next week and beyond are still delightfully compelling if not downright tempting, as you’ll soon see for yourself. Note that some shops are taking the holidays off when it comes to wine tastings — just too busy and not enough parking. And a mighty shout-out to the Dayton-based wine listserv that compiles alllllll of this information and allows us to copy and paste it right here! Enjoy …. Jay’s Kitchen Door 225 Read more [...]

Give to GOSH: Grade II-listed St Christopher’s Chapel partially modelled on St …

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When Great Ormond Street’s grade II-listed chapel was hoisted into the air in one piece and replaced in a renovated hospital undamaged, it was just another world-first for the globally-renowned paediatric centre. St Christopher’s Chapel, built in 1875 replete with stained glass windows depicting the nativity and a floor said to be modelled on a pavement in Venice’s St Mark’s Square, was encased in a huge waterproof box before being moved in the late 1980s in what was thought to Read more [...]