A streetlamp in Sheffield, formerly a gas destructor lamp. Photograph: Historic England/PA An elegant street lamp in Sheffield which was originally designed to burn off sewer gas, a hairdresser’s in Scarborough now a quaint tea-room, and the gravestone of the band leader who died on the Titanic, are among the most unusual listed buildings and other structures of the last year. All have been listed by Historic England to protect rare survivors of what were often common types of building and Read more [...]

In the past year, Historic England has awarded listed status to more than 500 places. Here's a selection of those sites now on the National Heritage List for England.Former bus station, Milton Keynes The light and airy bus station, designed by the town's in-house architects in 1975, is a small, simple, functional building with an elegant steel frame. Traces of a neolithic henge, Northorpe, YorkshireAbout 50 prehistoric henges are known in England, but the function of these circular enclosures Read more [...]

A house in Toxteth reportedly haunted by a 135-year-old poltergeist that has ‘lifted a woman out of her bed’ is up for rent. Situated in Pickwick Street, potential tenants will need nerves of steel to arrange a viewing of the three-bedroom terraced property, in which there has been ‘significant paranormal activity’ reported by previous inhabitants - with one expert saying it is haunted by a poltergeist from the 1800s. Social housing group, Plus Dane, who own the property, have confirmed Read more [...]

The names of people involved in family court cases are starting to appear on public listings in a break with tradition. Surnames of parties are featuring in some cases on listings at the Central Family Court in London. The move follows calls for more transparency in family justice from the most senior family court judge in England and Wales. Listings of public hearings in criminal courts and most civil courts usually feature the names of people involved. But traditionally family courts cases are Read more [...]

By Associated Press Published: 07:21 GMT, 16 June 2015 | Updated: 07:21 GMT, 16 June 2015 CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida and other militants in Libya on Tuesday released a list of names of those they say were killed in a U.S. airstrike over the weekend that does not include the raid's main target, al-Qaida-linked commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar.The al-Qaida-linked Ansar al-Shariah released a list of Read more [...]

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Plans to transform a damaged and derelict listed building in the Cynon Valley into five terraced houses will be put before the council’s planning committee. The former stable block of Aberaman House at Heol Ty Aberaman could soon be developed, with applicant Davies Developments Ltd seeking planning permission from Rhondda Cynon Taf council’s development control committee on Thursday, June 18. The conversion would provide five, three-bedroom terraced houses at the site, which lies near Abercwmboi Read more [...]

Celkon's new Millennia Q452 smartphone is now listed on the company website with specifications. The firm is yet to announce the smartphone officially along with its price and availability details.The Celkon Millennia Q452 is a dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) device which runs Android 4.4.2 KitKat out-of-the-box. The handset features a 4.5-inch (480x800 pixels) WVGA IPS display, and is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor (unspecified) coupled with 512MB of RAM.It comes with 8GB of inbuilt storage, which Read more [...]

The UK is lagging behind other developed economies by not broadening market access to private investors - a move which will make capitalism more popular, Mr Rolet continued. “The exceptional demand for shares in businesses like Royal Mail Group has proven the appetite savers have for investing and in IPOs in particular,” he wrote.”We ask that this Budget takes the steps to ensuring that a private investor tranche becomes not an oddity, but the default choice for most companies as they IPO.” Read more [...]

By City Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 19:34 GMT, 14 June 2015 | Updated: 19:34 GMT, 14 June 2015 View comments London-listed Vedanta Resources is merging its two main Indian subsidiaries in a bid to gain access to around £1.7billion in cash.The firm brings together India’s largest private miner Vedanta Limited and cash-rich oil and gas unit Cairn India.Shareholders Read more [...]