Planners will be looking at an addition to a bridge built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as part of the electrification work being carried out on his railway. Network Rail has applied for two portal frames to be fixed on the outer faces of Kennet Bridge. The frames will carry overheard line equipment needed for the electrification programme. Kennet Bridge is a Grade Two-listed railway bridge just west of the gas holders in Newtown near the bottom of Cholmeley Road. It is where the railway line crosses Read more [...]

Liverpool digital marketing agency Yoma is the city’s only representative in a specialist category of this year’s Prolific North Awards 2015. The agency, based in Garston's Matchworks, works in online marketing and Magento web design for a range of clients, including local businesses and a range of national high street brands such as heritage brand David M. Robinson, as well as Soap Glory and Poundstretcher. It has been shortlisted in the SEO PPC agency category of the awards, which take place Read more [...]

Jeralean Talley was born on May 23, 1899She credits her longevity to her faith Inherited the title of world's oldest person following the death of Arkansas woman Gertrude Weaver, 116, on Monday Friends said Talley remains 'very sharp' and goes on a yearly fishing tripBy Associated Press Reporter Published: 12:38 GMT, 7 April 2015 | Updated: 15:18 GMT, 7 April 2015 7 Read more [...]

The CEO of a company listed on the London Stock Exchange, that aims to become the world’s largest producer of cocoa, is responsible for illegally clearing swathes of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon, according to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The website for the Cayman Islands-based company, United Cacao, implies the company could be a force for positive change in the chocolate business, mostly produced in West Africa, stating that it “seeks to provide a clear path Read more [...]

Simon Delaney from DMP and Barbara Dawson, manager at NAPA A listed performing arts building is getting a second chance following advice and support from a chartered building surveyor. The home of Northern Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA), a Grade II listed building on Anlaby Road in Hull, has started to reveal some structural issues. But an asset management plan will enable NAPA to budget and plan for building Read more [...]

ENLARGE A few months ago, Stuart Leaf was sitting in his Brooklyn Heights apartment when he got a call from his wife asking when he’d be home. It turned out “we’d both been home for three hours,” he said—their roughly 11,000-square-foot condo Read more [...]

Listed school is to be turned into flats 5:22am Monday 6th April 2015 in News By Dominic Gilbert College building in Victoria Road..Pic - gv.Date Read more [...]

THE future of the landmark 120-year-old former Technical College in Victoria Road has been fixed as plans to convert the grand building into 24 modern apartments has been given the seal of approval. The Grade II listed, Flemish Baroque style school has stood empty and dilapidated since it was vacated in 2006, and after repeated vandalism, flooding and disrepair, serious concerns were raised last year that it would survive at all. Last July, owners Ashfield Land were served Read more [...]

CAPE TOWN – Cape Town and Johannesburg have been listed as playgrounds for the world’s super wealthy. This year’s Knight Frank wealth report places Johannesburg and the Mother City in its top 40 rich list. The international survey that looks at where the world’s super rich meet, work and play, reckons Johannesburg and Cape Town are the world’s top destinations significant to multimillionaires. The 2015 report has Johannesburg at 28 and its coastal rival at 36. However, the overall look Read more [...]

A pub’s change of name and appearance has caused a bit of a stir. In the last week, the outside of The Entertainer, formerly The George and Dragon, in Sittingbourne High Street has been painted blue and the premises renamed Bargain Boozer £ Pub. It’s led to some people slamming the building’s appearance and signage on Facebook. The pub has been renamed the Bargain Boozer £ One person wrote that it now looks like ‘Papa Smurf’s house’, while another said: Read more [...]