Royal Mail has announced a number of changes this year Royal Mail worker and post box(Image: PA) Royal Mail has provided an update on a major schedule change announced this year. The mailing service announced in July it will be scrapping its Saturday deliveries for second-class post and switch to …
Read More »Cold War bunker on the edge of Sandringham could be yours… for just £20,000
A Cold War-era former observation bunker on the edge of the royal estate at Sandringham in Norfolk is going up for auction on 8 May with a guide price of £20,000. The Dersingham Royal Observer Corps post was once part of a large network of observation posts up and down the …
Read More »Royal Family’s cheese makers put their home on the market for £1.5million (with three goats thrown in for free)
House hunters can eat like a king after the Royal Family’s cheese makers put their home on the market for £1.5 million – and it even comes with three prized GOATS. Robert and Sarah Hampton have spent the last 20 years running Brock Hall Farm Dairy near Bridgnorth, Shropshire. The …
Read More »Property with a British Open view: House in middle of Royal Troon golf course up for sale
Open this photo in gallery: Spectators walk past a house that is listed for sale near the second and 16th holes at Royal Troon golf club, in Troon, Scotland, on July 16.Scott Heppell/The Associated Press An estimated 250,000 golf fans will pour into Royal Troon to watch the likes of …
Read More »John Lewis appoints Royal Mail’s Martin Gafsen as new property boss
John Lewis said on Friday that it has appointed Martin Gafsen – currently interim corporate finance director at Royal Mail – as its new property and facilities director. He will be charged with the strategy and management of the partnership’s property portfolio. Gafsen will join the John Lewis Partnership (JLP) …
Read More »Griff Rhys Jones joins campaign against tower block demolition
Griff Rhys Jones, left, with members of the Save Museum Street campaign group outside under-threat Selkirk House in Bloomsbury A DEMOLITION project to flatten a 1960s tower block in Bloomsbury should be a test case as to whether councils are applying their own net-zero policies, campaigners said this week. Broadcaster …
Read More »Robbie Williams could spark another West London planning row over request to cut down healthy trees at £17.5m mansion
Robbie Williams could be headed for another row over plans to tear down two healthy trees. The former Take That superstar, 49, is seeking planning permission to fell two healthy trees, a eucalyptus and a leylandii, at the back of his £17.5million mansion in West London. But Robbie’s plans may …
Read More »Artist David Gentleman joins objectors to Ferris wheel at Camden Lock
How the attraction by the canal could look HIS art has come to symbolise London – and Camden Town in particular. But illustrator David Gentleman – whose work has included murals at tube stations and Royal Mail stamps – is less than impressed with a new vision for his home …
Read More »Work progressing on controversial Edinburgh luxury apartments with outdoor terraces
Work is progressing on a controversial five-storey block of flats in the Morningside area of Edinburgh. The apartments, on Falcon Road West, will comprise of two and three bedrooms, each with a south-facing balcony. The site formerly housed a Aitken and Niven warehouse and is located next to a Royal …
Read More »Electrician transforms dilapidated barn that ‘didn’t even have a roof’ into luxury five-bedroom home
A Teesside electrician who transformed a dilapidated barn without a roof into a luxury five-bedroom home has put his home up for sale for the first time. The Barn, at Moorsholm, was practically falling down and had been on the market two years when Michael Connor bought it. With “some …
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