With grounds of one acre, Apsley House is certainly in a very generous plot for its location, which is tucked away in Edgbaston, in Wellington Road. But it is believed that the house was surrounded by even more land and was a small-holding before the gentrification of the Calthorpe Estate . Although the date of the house is uncertain, the architecture is principally Georgian. Grade II-listed, it has many splendid features, with the rear sections of the property being mellow brick and more obviously Read more [...]

Pubs rule: The Royal Oak, Columbia Road. Photograph: Ewan Munro/Historic England The curved wooden bars and vitrolite ceilings of Hackney’s 1930s pubs will be preserved for years to come, thanks to a new listing scheme by Historic England. Both the Rose and Crown in Stoke Newington and the Stag’s Head in Hoxton are now Grade II-listed buildings, meaning that owners are obliged to make every effort to preserve the history of each building. Listing took place in a drive to protect pubs Read more [...]

He never promised his wife a rose garden but now she’s got one of the best beds in town. Mike Phillips and Marina Shaw bought Huddersfield’s best-known mansion, Banney Royd, in July 2011 for £1.9m and have ploughed thousands of pounds into restoring it and its almost seven acres of gardens to their former glory. The couple have allowed the Examiner an exclusive glimpse inside the house on Halifax Road, Edgerton, which once went on the market for, in Huddersfield, an unprecedented £5m. VIEW Read more [...]

ISS Facility Services has been awarded a contract to provide engineering support to the Grade II listed Grosvenor Crescent development situated between Belgrave Square and Hyde Park Corner in Belgravia, London. The agreement which runs until 2018, will see ISS technical services business providing a number services to the site including mechanical and electrical engineering systems maintenance as well as compliance services – specifically water treatment. The latter includes Legionella Read more [...]

An historic 17th century house gutted in an arson attack is set for a multi-million pound transformation. Grade II-listed Chaddock Hall in Wigan was destroyed by firebugs last December. McCaul Homes, which own the property, has now started work on returning it to its former glory. The Astley-based company, run by brothers Tony and Sean McCaul and Neil Cartwright, will renovate the two-acre site into a £7m gated village, built around the old hall and barns. Sean Hansford. Chaddock Hall The project Read more [...]

LONDON — October 8, 2015 — Although September was another roller coaster ride for investors they allocated US$32 billion in net new assets to ETFs/ETPs listed globally during the month. This marks the 20th consecutive month of positive net inflows, according to ETFGI’s preliminary ETF and ETP global insights report for the September 2015. In the first three quarters of 2015 record levels of net new assets have been gathered by ETFs/ETPs listed globally, Read more [...]

The kitchen table formerly owned by late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis has been put up for sale on Ebay for the second time after the seller originally listed the same item in 2013. Bidding closed at £8,400 two years ago but, presumably, the highest bidder never went through with the purchase. The new listing begins: "BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND". The table is taken from the room where Curtis took his life in 1980. The seller, Tel Harrop, claims to have only been aware that he owned such a prized Read more [...]

A number of people detained in raids on Wednesday were listed as “prohibited” contacts on the control order of a suspect in a separate counter-terrorism investigation, NSW police have confirmed, amid questions over why 15-year-old Farhad Jabar was not on the radar of counter-terrorism police. The joint counter-terrorism team executed search warrants on Wednesday and detained four people in relation to their investigation into the fatal shooting of 58-year-old Curtis Cheng by Jabar outside the Read more [...]

Doogee Mobile is an upcoming smartphone brand from China that has gained good attention from customers outside its home market. The Doogee F5 is a high-end smartphone that features 5.5-inches IPS OGS display with support for full HD resolution, a MediaTek MT6753 chipset that features a 64-bit octa-core processor, and 3 GB of RAM. The device comes pre-installed with Android 5.1. The internal storage of the device is 16 GB. On its external storage, users can add up to 32 GB of microSD. There Read more [...]

Kiddi Caru has been shortlisted for two Nursery Management Today (NMT) awards. The shortlisted entries comprise Nursery Team of the Year for the Torquay nursery and Website of the Year for www.kiddicaru.com. Caron Moseley, Marketing Manager at Kiddi Caru comments, “It is always wonderful to be shortlisted for an award – it is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our nursery and head office teams. We will be keeping our fingers crossed for the finals.” click Read more [...]