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Miley Cyrus may think she started a new craze when she showed off her "twerking" - but it turns out the word can be traced as far back as 1820. Twerking has, in recent years, been described in the Oxford English Dictionary as as dancing "in a sexually provocative manner, using thrusting movements of the bottom and hips while in a low, squatting stance". It was understood to have its roots in the early 1990s New Orleans 'bounce' music scene. But new research by the OED found it was first used as Read more [...]

This spectacular eight bedroom country house is nestled in more than 13 acres of land in the Vale of Glamorgan. The Grade II-listed pile in Castle Upon Alun is pretty impressive - and if you're a fan of swimming and playing tennis, you can wander out to the back garden to indulge in some exercise any day of the week. It’s on the market for the very first time for with a £2.5m price tag and it has quite a it of history. In fact, the oldest part of the house – the ceiling beams in the library Read more [...]

Norman Foster calls on government to consider the ‘sustainability factor’ of flattening and replacing Robin Hood Gardens when weighing up whether to list the 1972 estate The founder of Foster + Partners has joined a growing list of world-famous architects who have responded to Richard Rogers’ and fellow RSHP partner Simon Smithson’s last-ditch bid to to save Robin Hood Gardens.Renzo Piano, Moshe Safdie, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Rafael Viñoly, Ted Cullinan, Robert Stern, Read more [...]

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Comments (0) Swansea is set to benefit further from a boost in funding, developing bus shelters and cycle routes. Reporter Chad Welsch finds out which direction the money is going....HIGHWAYS and by-ways of Swansea are to be given a huge boost thanks to almost £3 million of funding.Bus shelters, footpaths and cycleways look set to benefit from the cash, which is destined to improve the transport infrastructure in the city.Mark Thomas, cabinet member for environment Read more [...]

VIEW GALLERY These fascinating images could be the last taken of a historic Liverpool tenement block before it finally undergoes a £6.6 million renovation. Under plans being considered by the city’s cabinet the Grade II listed Eldon Grove in Vauxhall will be converted into 45 affordable one and two bedroom apartments. The 93-year-old building is the last remaining original-style tenement building in the city and its plight has been highlighted in the ECHO’s successful Stop The Rot Read more [...]

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Andy Neary, chef at Seaburn Martino's with a three course Valentine's Day meal for ETC magazine... Looking for somewhere nice to eat? Here are Sunderland’s 10 top restaurants as chosen by TripAdvisor users:1) Italian Kitchen, Thompson Road, Sunderland 2) D’Acqua Restaurant, John Street 3) Read more [...]

It was famed as being the finest music hall in the country when it threw open its doors just over 180 years ago and is now a Grade I Listed feather in Birmingham’s cap. It was even the spot where the great Charles Dickens gave public readings of his work to city folk – including A Christmas Carol on Boxing Day of 1853. As part of a £35 million refurbishment Birmingham Town Hall was closed for just over a decade, but since its grand reopening in 2007 – officially opened by Prince Charles and Read more [...]