50 h. ago Top UK kitchen supplier goes bust with ALL jobs lost after half a century

A LONG-STANDING kitchen supplier has gone bust leaving all staff out of work overnight. The tile-maker is closing down its four companies as it goes into administration. Ceramique Internationale Ltd based in Leeds, Bedford-based Rowmarl Ltd and Spectrum Tiles Ltd and Euxton Tile Supplies Ltd, both based in Euxton, Lancashire have all hit the wall....

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1 week ago WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal

Exclusive: the newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his homeA “once in a century” discovery of a cache of long-lost letters has revealed how the English poet WH Auden developed a deep and lasting friendship with a Viennese sex worker and car mechanic after the latter burgled the Funeral Blues author’s home and was put on trial.York-born Auden, a prominent member of a generation of 1930s writers that also included Christopher Isherwood, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender, described his unconventional arrangement with the man he affectionally called “Hugerl” in the posthumously published poem Glad. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Panic as UK's 'biggest kitchen supplier' goes bust after 77 years

Waterline Limited, based in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, went bust earlier this month, forcing 105 people into redundancy

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2 w. ago Marble tomb for 19th century MP who paid a fortune for it still stands proud

It once stood proudly on a barren moorland, commemorating a man who lost his life in the 19th century.

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2 w. ago Joey Essex admits he's 'run out of stuff to do' after appearing on a whopping 18 reality shows

The TV personality, 35, who first found fame on TOWIE in 2011, has also competed in I'm A Celeb , Dancing On Ice , Love Island, Celebrity MasterChef.

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3 w. ago ‘Decision to do this secretly is surprising’: NGV returns painting lost in Nazi era to Jewish family

The museum has declined to answer key questions about the decision to return the artwork, prompting the New York-based researcher who uncovered the story to challenge the NGV’s handling of the caseFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe National Gallery of Victoria has quietly returned a 17th-century painting to the descendants of a Jewish family who lost it during the Nazi era, without public announcement or explanation.The painting, Lady with a Fan by Gerard ter Borch, was removed from the NGV’s website in early September. The only public trace of its return appeared weeks later, in an update to the Lost Art Database in Germany. Continue reading...

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