5 h. ago German auction house cancels sale of Holocaust artefacts after outcry

Survivors group had called on firm Felzmann to ‘show some basic decency’ and halt ‘cynical and shameless’ eventPoland’s foreign minister said on Sunday that an “offensive” auction of Holocaust artefacts in Germany has been cancelled, relaying information from his German counterpart, after complaints from Holocaust survivors.Radosław Sikorski made the comments on X, saying he and German foreign minister Johann Wadephul “agreed that such a scandal must be prevented”. Continue reading...

Economics

8 h. ago Holocaust survivors group urges German auction house to halt sale of artifacts

A Holocaust survivors group is urging a German auction house to cancel a sale of Holocaust artifacts

Economics

59 h. ago House worth £190k in quiet village for sale yet listing leaves out one massive issue

The three-bedroom semi-detached house has a fair few plus points, but its biggest selling point is missing from its estate agent listing

Economics

59 h. ago Grand Designs house for sale: New Forest haiku house from 2004 series on market for £2.95m

The house first appeared on Grand Designs in 2004 when Lizzie and Michael took their project to build a Japanese-style haiku house — with vineyard — to Kevin McCloud

Economics

3 d. ago Boots Black Friday sale sees 'nostalgic' Versace perfume get huge price cut

Versace Crystal Emerald is a new fragrance from the iconic fashion house and it's currently reduced in the Boots Black Friday sale

Economics

3 d. ago Grand Designs viewers left in tears by couple's amazing act of generosity after converting a dilapidated barn into their forever home 

Grand Designs viewers were left in tears by Kent-based couple Georgie and Greg, who turned a room in their home into a retreat for ill people - after both overcoming brain tumours themselves.

Politics

4 d. ago Grand Designs couple who BOTH overcame brain tumours repurpose their £275,000 build into free retreat for people going through serious illnesses because they 'know how tough times can be'

Greg, a pub landlord from Kent, first met artist Georgie through a charity when he had just recovered from his brain tumour 15 years ago.

Economics

4 d. ago Predators review – grimly compelling look at reality TV revenge hunt for child abusers

David Osit’s documentary takes a disturbing look at the televised shaming served up by the hit show To Catch a PredatorIt’s too soon to know for sure, but this may end up being ranked as one of the best nonfiction films of the year. At least let’s hope lots of people get to see this, even if it’s a mistake because they meant to buy a ticket for Predator: Badlands. Instead of an alien hunter with gnarly teeth, this offers a profoundly troubling meditation on our collective thirst for revenge – or at least the kind of bizarre performance art version of revenge as served up by reality TV show To Catch a Predator, a US series that ran from 2004 to 2007 and which featured weekly footage of paedophiles and would-be paedophiles being duped, shamed and arrested.Predators’ director David Osit, at first just an offscreen voice but eventually a fully seen (in every sense) presence, explains that he used to watch To Catch a Predator avidly as a young man. Every episode was roughly the same: a m...

Events

5 d. ago Commute to work from your own boathouse? Riverside house in Berkshire for auction for £3.8 million

Doannee House sits on the Thames and is due to be auctioned on 24 November

Economics

7 d. ago I built £8m Grand Designs castle that fuming locals are calling ‘brutalist’ fortress it was never meant to be pretty

A GRAND Designs homeowner has defended his £8million fortress after angry villagers compared it to a “car park”. When Piers Daniell set out to build his dream home, a six-storey concrete and glass "castle", he knew it wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea. What he didn’t expect was to become public enemy number one in...

Economics

8 d. ago Woman picks up cheap lamp from house sale and then realises true value

A woman has shared the incredible discovery she made at an estate sale – and it's safe to say she's glad she decided to take a chance on the item when she set eyes on it

Politics

9 d. ago Beloved TV series is BACK after being dropped by Channel 4 despite loyal fanbase

The popular TV series will be back on screens this month after it was previously dropped in 2023.

Culture

9 d. ago 'It's amazing what survived': inside a colourful Art Deco house in Ramsgate with an air raid shelter in garden

The house has had four different owners since it was built in 1936 - now, it is looking for a fifth

Society

1 week ago Grand Designs couple who spent £175,000 transforming their 1960s bungalow into a modern home reveal they've FINALLY completed it 9 years later

Stuart and Rosie Treasurer, who live on the Wirral peninsula, first appeared on the Channel 4 show in 2016 to demolish their 'crumby ugly duckling' property.

Economics

1 week ago Grand Designs ‘castle’ sparks local fury after going on the market for nearly £8m

Largest-ever build to appear on programme has locals reaching for their pitchforks

Economics

1 week ago 'The most disgusting vainglorious thing I've ever seen': Villagers' damning verdict on £7.5 million Grand Designs castle in the heart of Shakespeare country as they liken it to a Nazi fortress

The 'brutalist' structure, made of recycled bricks with a square-shaped tower, has been compared to a 'prison' and a 'multi-storey carpark'.

Economics

2 w. ago Can you name this British TV icon? Star sports bushy grey beard on red carpet

The TV star is famed for his role in an award-winning comedy series which ran from 2004 until 2013 for 11 series and 139 episodes, but can you recognise who he is?

Transport

2 w. ago Red Swedish timber house in Scotland with its own lochs for sale

The gorgeous property comes with three tranquil lochans.

Politics

2 w. ago House covered floor to ceiling in leopard print goes on sale for £250,000

House hunters are saying it's 'Kat Slater's dream home'

Economics

2 w. ago Grand Designs' castle that cost couple £7 million to build is likened to a 'multi

In 2021, Entrepreneur Piers and police officer Emma bought on old folly in Warwickshire for £1.4million, demolishing it in favour of a huge castle - in the show's biggest project of all time.

Economics