The listed property show is coming to town with tips on how to buy and restore and maintain historic property. Sharon Dale reports on why it pays to plan. There are two ways that buyers look at listed buildings for sale. They either love the fact the property is historic with period features protected by law or they panic at the thought of possible planning wrangles and puzzle over maintenance issues, like how find a lime plasterer.So, if you are selling a listed property Read more [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Two police officers shot and wounded by a gunman they encountered in the stairwell of a public housing project were in stable condition Friday.Authorities confirmed their identities as Officers Patrick Espeut, 29, and Diara Cruz, 24.Police also confirmed the identity of the gunman they say later killed himself as 23-year-old Malik Chavis.Police said three officers were on the sixth floor of the Melrose Houses complex in the Bronx on Thursday night Read more [...]

THREE war memorials in Dorset have been listed as part of a pledge to protect 2,500 memorials by 2018. The Buckland Newton War Memorial, the War Memorial Cross in Shaftesbury, and the Sturminster Marshall War Memorial are among hundreds to be included. Historic England has pledged to protect the memorials whilst marking the centenary of the First World War. Each memorial was built following the conflict and serve as a reminder of the sacrifices and loss the war brought Read more [...]

February 5, 2016 Written by Mack Ashworth It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another Destiny Xur location and item post here on PlayStation LifeStyle. This weekend players can spend 23 Strange Coins on the SUROS Regime Auto Rifle. Hunters can grab the Radiant Dance Machines leg armor, Titans can pick up the Immolation Fists gauntlets, Read more [...]

RESIDENTS are ready to protest until they are blue in the face over a great big yellow sign being put up outside their listed homes. Homeowners in grade II listed 163-year-old St Catherine’s Terrace in Kingsway, Hove, are angry about the sign warning motorists to avoid the seafront road, which they say was put up without consultation. The signs is one of three installed around the city advising drivers to seek alternative routes and warning of possible delays from roadworks Read more [...]

Manchester United defender Regan Poole has been included in the club's Europa League squad. Poole, 17, had been prevented from playing in any United fixtures due to a delay regarding his international clearance, however he made his Under-21s debut at Everton on Monday night. The teenager joined United from Newport County, where he became the club's youngest player, in the summer and he has received the number 41 squad number. United play Danish side Midtjylland in the round-of-32 this month. A number Read more [...]

Melton Council is seeking to get listed building status for a block of vagrants’ cells at the town’s St Mary’s Hospital site on Thorpe Road. The vagrants’ cells/casual ward is an ancillary building to the 1836 former Melton Union Workhouse.The vagrants’ block was for vagrants, or tramps, passing through the town looking for shelter. At the time it was illegal to sleep on the streets so they either had to rent a room somewhere in the town or, if they had no Read more [...]

By Sky News US Team A US student is facing disciplinary action from his college after he rented his dorm room through Airbnb. Emerson College sophomore Jack Worth told local media he rented his downtown Boston dorm three times in early January. The room was listed on the rental website for two weeks before school officials Read more [...]

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