VIEW GALLERY Liverpool architects have been recognised in the long-list for RIBA’s New Home of the Year. Snook Architects, with offices on Duke Street, have been longlisted for the 2015 RIBA Manser Medal for the design of ‘Westmorland’, a California-style home based in Liverpool. The Manser Medal is the Royal Institute of British Architect’s award for the best new house in Britain, and celebrates the best of British design Neil Dawson, the project’s architect and director of Snook Read more [...]

Comments (0) With more than 1,500 listed buildings in Cambridge city, there will definitely be some that you recognise. But the ones that you never would have expected to make the grade are even more interesting. Listed buildings are those which are seen as of architectural of historical interest, and they are split into three categories. Grade I buildings are of "exceptional interest", Grade II* buildings are of "particular importance" and Grade II buildings Read more [...]

Hezbollah’s secretive “external security” branch will remain listed as a terrorist organisation in Australia after security agency advice that the group is still involved in the “planning, coordination and execution of terrorist attacks”. The parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security regularly reviews the organisations on the list, which Hezbollah’s external security organisation (ESO) joined in 2003. ESO operatives have been accused of several terrorist attacks against Read more [...]

12:00 20 June 2015 Anna Silverman Captain John Bennett's tomb in St Margaret's Church in Barking (Picture: LBBD local studies and archives centre) Archant Read more [...]

Easy Listed win for Connecticut Sunday 21 June 2015 A lengthy absence was not nearly enough to stop Connecticut making a successful reappearance in the totepool Pontefract Castle Stakes.Luca Cumani's four-year-old racked up a hat-trick of victories last season, scoring at Newbury, York and Newmarket before returning to the Knavesmire to finish third in the Melrose Stakes.He failed to fire on his final appearance Read more [...]

Temptress handed Listed aim Sunday 21 June 2015 Roger Charlton is eyeing a return to Ascot next month for Temptress following her narrow reverse in the Royal Hunt Cup.The four-year-old already has two victories at the Berkshire track to her credit and very nearly completed the hat-trick in one of the most fiercely competitive handicaps of the season, going down by just a neck to Gm Hopkins.Charlton's next objective Read more [...]

It’s Birmingham’s most unusual playground – and now this wacky fish sculpture has been saved for generations of children. Dating from 1960, the Grade II-listed landmark in Curtis Gardens, Acocks Green, is the only surviving play sculpture created for the city by artist John Bridgeman. Part of a post-Second World War drive to make artwork more accessible to children, Bridgeman said in a 1961 article that sculpture appeared to youngsters a “remote, ‘arty’ grown-up aberration associated Read more [...]

The hotel is a Grade II-listed building that used to be Hunstrete HotelIt's a creation of Robin Hutson, who launched the Hotel du Vin chainA 25-mile rule is in place for all ingredients, and the menu changes hourlyBy The Inspector Published: 10:36 GMT, 20 June 2015 | Updated: 12:24 GMT, 20 June 2015 1 View comments Rating: Here at last. You can't find a berth Read more [...]

Comments (0) Bath's Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights has been listed in world's top ten book shops.The list, compiled by The Guardian newspaper and based on readers' recommendations, has listed the John Street book shop as number eight in the list of independent traders.The newspaper said: "This indie bookshop in central Bath not only has a great selection of books, a cosy atmosphere and comfy armchairs – it also offers services like bibliotherapy and "reading Read more [...]

Following a four-year review, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) will remove the eastern cougar from its  list of endangered and threatened species — where it has been for the last 43 years.The big cat, which once roamed North America from Canada to South Carolina, will no longer receive Endangered Species Act protections.  Cougars - along with their cousins panthers and pumas - were once the most widely distributed land mammal in the western hemisphere, but have been driven out from Read more [...]