4 d. ago Workers begin converting army barracks into camp that will house 600 male migrants on edge of town

Residents are furious at the plans for Crowborough Army Training Camp in East Sussex, with 2,000 people flooding the streets for a noisy protest yesterday.

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9 d. ago Plans to convert condemned East Kilbride church site into housing have been revealed

Plans have been submitted to South Lanarkshire Council to demolish former South Parish Church on Baird Hill and replace it with two four-storey blocks containing 38 one and two bedroom apartments.

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1 week ago Millionaire property tycoon, 26, who runs dozens of HMOs around Britain for victims of domestic violence is targeted by vandals

Liv Cooke, 26, has amassed a £10million fortune by converting run-down properties into HMOs (Houses in Multiple Occupation) for up to five people.

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2 w. ago Eyesore Greater Manchester transport depot to be converted into housing

The site has sat vacant for almost two decades

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3 w. ago Around 100 firefighters battle large house blaze in Notting Hill

The London Fire Brigade said 15 fire engines were at an address on Oxford Gardens in Notting Hill, where most of the first floor and part of the second floor of a detached house converted into flats are alight

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3 w. ago West London woman who converted house into a hotel and then 10 flats hit with £430k bill

West London woman who converted house into a hotel and then 10 flats hit with £430k bill  MyLondon

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3 w. ago Double, heavy, pure cream? Helen Goh’s guide to baking across borders – plus a finger bun recipe

Between countries, differences in ingredients and measurements can make or break a cake, writes Helen Goh. But it’s possible to bake a global gateauGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen Sweet, the baking book I co-authored with Yotam Ottolenghi, came out in the United States in 2017, my excitement at seeing so many people bake from it was matched only by my horror at what I saw them pulling from their ovens on Instagram: pale cakes with thick, dark exteriors.Posts from Australian and British readers showed no alarming results and I quickly realised something had gone awry in the American translation. As it turned out, the recipes had been converted in-house by the publisher, using a straightforward formula to change celsius to fahrenheit. What no one had noticed was that the conversion also needed to take into account the oven setting: fan-forced versus conventional heat. Many American ovens, it seems, still don’t have a fan function. Reader, there were tears. Continue rea...

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