The Hub, home of Haatch, in Wharf Road/Blackfriars Street, Stamford. EMN-150428-161925001 Plans to redevelop the former Cummins Social Club in Stamford pose a “very high” danger of damage to a medieval stone barn, a court has heard. The Cecil Estate Family Trust has challenged the plan to knock down the building in Blackfriars Street and build a four-storey office block in its place. Lawyers from the trust told Read more [...]

Two people from Warwickshire were still listed this morning amongst those missing in Nepal after a devastating earthquake hit the region on Saturday. Mary Magdelina Claus, 64, from Nuneaton, and Martin James Edmonds Gattuso, 38, of Harborough Magna, near Rugby, remain on a list of British and Irish-born people believed to be missing in Nepal. An updated version of the list was released this morning. Unfortunately there was no indication of whether they had been found or not. Anthony White, of Holbrooks, Read more [...]

AWARD NOMINATION: Aimee Hyde, director of Persora in Pershore. First published in News Read more [...]

A millionaire property developer has admitted he should not have modernised a Grade II listed building thought to have inspired the hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful. Kim Gregory Davies carried out dozens of unlawful alterations at Llanwenarth House, including the installation of a “mosaic-clad jacuzzi”, the replacement of timber windows with “modern” ones, and the removal of staircases, Newport crown court heard. The house, in the Usk Valley, south Wales, was built in the late 16th century, Read more [...]

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Comments (8) Nottingham's ugliest building could be protected from the bulldozer, blocking any hope of developing the 45-acre site.Imperial Tobacco's Horizon Factory, England's last cigarette manufacturing plant, is scheduled for closure – but conservation agency Historic England has confirmed to the Post that it may press for the huge concrete building to get Listed status.A Grade 1 listing would mean the factory, designed in the 1960s, getting the same "hands-off" Read more [...]

Related: From Iron Lady to #GrandmothersKnowBest: Hillary Clinton is playing the 'gender card' to win The Clinton Foundation issued a statement on Sunday in which it admitted it “made mistakes” over the listing of donations from foreign governments on its tax forms. At the same time, the author of a forthcoming book, which alleges that donors to the family’s interests may have received government favours , called for an urgent investigation. Barely into her run for the White House in 2016, Read more [...]

Legatissimo swept clear in the hands of Wayne Lordan to run out an impressive winner of the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Victor McCalmont Memorial Stakes at Gowran Park. Epsom Oaks. Click here to bet. Wayne Lordan: On target at Gowran Read more [...]

NEW DELHI: After police force will there be reservation for women in corporates? It could be if women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi has her way. The minister has sought 30% reservation for women on the board of listed companies. In a letter to SEBI, Maneka has also expressed concern that the overwhelming number of women nominated on boards are relatives of promoters and work only as figureheads. She has also expressed intention to discuss the issue of increasing participation of Read more [...]

Six area high schools scored in the top 1 percent of schools ranked nationally for challenging average students, in a survey conducted annually by the Washington Post.American Indian Public Charter in Oakland ranked 30th nationally. Others in the top 1 percent included Pacific Collegiate in Santa Cruz, Lowell in San Francisco, San Francisco University in San Francisco, Menlo School in Atherton, and Gunn High in Palo Alto. About 25 greater Bay Area schools ranked in the top 4 percent on the "America's Read more [...]