The Dudley Building Society has announced a new range of discounted rate mortgage products aimed at providing funding for buyers and owners of listed buildings. Having moved its mortgage distribution exclusively through the intermediary channel, The Dudley is now developing new niches to meet the needs of its broker clients. The listed building product range will cater for Grade 1, Grade 2* and Grade 2 property and the rate discount lasts for the lifetime of the loan. Borrowers can Read more [...]

iBall has introduced a new Andi-series smartphone, the Andi4 B20, which is now listed on the company's site. There is no official word on the availability and pricing details of the iBall Andi4 B20 smartphone; however, we expect the company will start the sale of the smartphone in the coming days.The Andi4 B20 smartphone is a dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) device which runs Android 4.4 KitKat out-of-the-box. It comes with a 4-inch (480x800 pixels) WVGA display. The smartphone is powered by a 1GHz single-core Read more [...]

A PROPERTY development company has pledged to transform a crumbling listed warehouse in the city centre into plush student flats by next summer. MKD has been granted planning permission to convert 149-151 Sunbridge Road, a grade two listed, seven storey building dating back to 1905, into 74 ensuite student flats. And the company has told the TA that the £3.2 million scheme will be inspired by boutique hotels, with large rooms fitted with plasma screen TVs dashing the Read more [...]

Comments (0) AFTER concerns were raised over a dilapidated building in Market Street, planning applications have been submitted to secure its future.5 Market Street was previously used as a retail space for clothing and fashion items.As well as improving the state of the listed building, proposals include a change of use from retail to retail, restaurant and business use.Owner Jimmy Yu has outlined initial ideas for a cafe on the ground floor, serving teas and Read more [...]

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Comments (2) An empty grade II* listed building in the city centre, which formerly was home to NatWest bank, could be turned into a steakhouse.Plans have been drawn up to turn the St Martin's building into a Middleton's Steakhouse Grill.The company opened in 2010 just outside King's Lynn, in Norfolk, and they now also have restaurants in Norwich, Colchester, and Milton Keynes.Leicester Civic Society chairman Stuart Bailey said the application was good news. Read more [...]

Olympic and World Championships 400m hurdles gold medal winner Melaine Walker is listed to compete in the second of three semi-finals of the women's 100m hurdles at the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships at the National Stadium today. It's left to be seen if Walker, who has not competed in Jamaica since the 2012 National Championships, will actually show up for the event, but she is listed to run out of lane seven in a semi that also features defending champion Monique Morgan Read more [...]

Japanese fans have noticed that Hiroko Kazui's online resume is listing storyboard board work for Owarimonogatari along with Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Kōfuku Graffiti" Nisekoi, Maria the Virgin Witch among the 2015 productions. Kazui previously worked on Hanamonogatari.       Owarimonogatari ("End Story"), comprised of three volumes, is the twelfth part of the Monogatari series. The fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth books overall, they contain the stories Ougi Formula, Sodachi Read more [...]

Grave of Wallace Hartley in Colne Cemetery.Photo Ben Parsons The memorial and gravestone of courageous Titanic bandmaster Wallace Hartley have been made Grade II listed sites by Historic England. The gravestone, which is situated in Colne Cemetery, and the memorial on Albert Road, are among 510 newly-listed historic sites across England revealed last week. Wallace Hartley became a national hero when his eight-piece Read more [...]