14 h. ago Social media influencers who invaded abandoned closed 17th Century mansion 'didn't see 24 keep out signs'

The group visited the Grade II listed building which had been closed down by police due to a wave of unwanted visitors

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20 h. ago Britain's most beautiful pub has been named and it's not where you would think

The Forester in Ealing, west London, has won a national CAMRA Pub Design Award, which recognises the most stunning, historically significant and lovingly restored pubs across the UK

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37 h. ago Inside stunning restored Grade II* listed home surrounded by 17 acres of idyllic countryside

It's a special abode in so many amazing ways including offering two extra homes in the garden

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40 h. ago Britain's new 'wonkiest pub' with £3 pints but a zero hygiene rating for sale again

The Tilted Barrel in Tipton, West Mids, was bought by businessman Ian Riaar for £186,000 in November 2023 before a further £100,000 was splashed on doing up the Grade II-listed boozer

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67 h. ago ‘A dazzling concrete crown’: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral gets long overdue appreciation

A genius response bridging of history and modernity with daring interior and exterior, it is shocking it wasn’t already Grade I-listedLiverpool’s Catholic cathedral has listing upgraded to Grade ILiverpool’s majestic cosmic wigwam has always faced a hard time from critics. Classicists lamented that it replaced an earlier swollen baroque design by Edwin Lutyens, which was cut short by the second world war and rising costs. Modernists found it too prissy, a brittle British version of more muscular concrete creations emerging from sunnier southern climes – a piece of Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasília lost in translation between the hemispheres.Time has proved them wrong. Frederick Gibberd’s striking upturned funnel is one of the finest postwar buildings in the land, standing as the most prominent Catholic cathedral of any British city, as well as the most original. It is shocking that it wasn’t already Grade-I listed – a fact that reflects a broader antipathy for buildings of the era, which is...

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7 d. ago The Greater Manchester waterside walk named among best for families this summer

It has gorgeous views across the water and of surrounding moorland

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8 d. ago Take a look inside Jeremy Clarkson’s £1.5m childhood home as it goes up for sale

It is Grade II listed and features five bedrooms, three bathrooms, four reception rooms, and a ‘large living kitchen’

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2 w. ago Major plans revealed for former hotel overlooking one of Wales' most famous beaches

The works in the application, and an accompanying Listed Building Consent application, include changes to restore some original features in the 'historically significant' Grade II listed building

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2 w. ago The travellers' tactics: How travellers are obliterating Britain's prized countryside to turn them into concrete carbuncles for their caravans in illegal landgrabs

EXCLUSIVE: Travellers are using 'military' shock and awe-style tactics to obliterate areas of idyllic British countryside in brazen 'landgrabs' over bank holiday weekends across the UK.

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2 w. ago Cardiff school still covered in scaffolding years after work started to fix roof

Parents and residents are questioning why a Cardiff primary school is still covered in scaffolding years after work to fix it got underway. Work to repair the roof at Grade II listed Roath Park Primary School started in 2021.

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3 w. ago This Grade 2 listed building is up for sale in Swansea city centre

The building is home to a number of businesses and organisations and was constructed in 1913

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3 w. ago This Grade II listed building is up for sale in Swansea city centre

The building is home to a number of businesses and organisations and was constructed in 1913

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3 w. ago Geri Halliwell launches SECOND bid to install plush gates at Grade II listed mansion

The Spice Girl, 52, and her husband Christian Horner, 51, wanted to shift their current boundary back from the road and install stone posts on either side, replacing the current timber set-up.

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3 w. ago Princess Diana’s former home targeted in ‘suspected arson attack’, her brother Earl Spencer claims

Earl Spencer said he was ‘stunned’ to learn of the blaze at the Grade I-listed Althorp House

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3 w. ago So much for the gothic vibes! Tim Burton puts mansion on sale for £4.5m...but shocks fans with quintessentially English decor

The 'enchanting' Grade II-listed Mill House, which sits on 17 acres of gardens and lies next to the River Thames in Abingdon, has now been put up for sale.

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3 w. ago Barnet fire engulfed £4.5m Millionaire's Row mansion that was being turned into dream home

Hollybush House, a Grade II-listed property in Barnet, north London, was destroyed after a fire tore through the nine-bed home in a matter of minutes on Monday morning

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3 w. ago 'Within minutes the whole house was engulfed in flames': Neighbours reveal fire

Grade II-listed Hollybush House, in Barnet, was destroyed after a fire tore through the nine-bed home in the early hours of Monday morning.

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3 w. ago Mayfair residents blast illegal basement in £9 million townhouse as 'threat' to their homes

Owner of Grade II-listed home in one of London’s wealthiest areas has been ordered to fill in basement by Planning Inspectorate

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3 w. ago ‘Football is not complicated’: Andoni Iraola on Bournemouth, birdsong and playing better

The travel-loving manager is staying put for now on the south coast after a record-breaking season – ‘I’m going to enjoy the years ahead of me’At Bournemouth’s uber-cool Canford Magna training base, a 57-acre site on a former golf course, Andoni Iraola is surrounded by bells and whistles. There is a hydrotherapy pool and an altitude chamber. “For me, those are like the extras,” says a manager used to getting his hands dirty from his days at AEK Larnaca in Cyprus and Mirandés in northern Spain.“I come from clubs where everybody has to do their job – and something else. I’ve needed to cut videos, make things, set up; we didn’t have goals with wheels so four of us would move them.” At Rayo Vallecano, even after promotion to La Liga, he explains how they happily made do with “training on one pitch and a third”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite | Andy Beckett

Politicians and the rightwing press talk about integration in a selective and politically loaded way. The reality is quite differentAmid all the acrimony surrounding Keir Starmer’s recent remarks on immigration – a row that could follow him into retirement and beyond – there has been one little-examined area of agreement between the prime minister and his critics. “When people come to our country,” Starmer said, “they should also commit to integration.” You may believe that integration is not best achieved by government decree, yet in conversations about what sort of society Britain should be, it has long been generally accepted that integration is a good thing – not just for immigrants but for everyone.Mixing, empathising and collaborating with people who aren’t like you has benefits, the argument goes, for individuals and the country as a whole. Perspectives are broadened. Inequalities are softened, at least a little. Lives are enriched, and feelings of loneliness and alienation a...

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