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NewsRare albino hedgehog found in Thornbury garden
A rare albino hedgehog, weighing 300g, has been found in a garden in Thornbury near Bristol.
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NewsAsh import ban worries hurley stick makers
The NI Agriculture Minister has strengthened emergency legislation to curb the spread of a fungus that destroys ash trees. However, Michelle O’Neill moved to reassure manufacturers, including those who make hurley sticks, that ash could still be imported. “This new legislation means that from today, ash can only be imported ...
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NewsDivers attempt to save submarine
A group of Cheshire divers have taken part in a conservation project to save the wreck of the “world’s first powered working submarine”, the Resurgam II. The submarine, which was designed by a Manchester clergyman in 1879, sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales. Divers from the ...
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NewsBelfast cat hitches lift to Londonderry
A Belfast cat has used up at least one of its nine lives after it hitched a ride to Londonderry under the bonnet of a car. Driver Gary O’Sullivan said he heard a strange noise as he drove the 60 miles from Belfast to Derry. Little did he know that ...
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NewsKnutsford juggler brings Moscow State Circus home
Paul Archer left his Cheshire home at the age of 16 determined to make his name as a circus performer. Thirty-three years later, he has returned to Knutsford with a circus career behind him and as director of one of the world’s most famous troupes, the Moscow State Circus. It ...
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NewsNew Bristol museum plan for last Concorde
A permanent home for the last Concorde to fly could be set up on the northern edge of Filton Airfield near Bristol. The plan involves a new building to house the Concorde with a museum in two neighbouring World War I hangars. Plans for a museum at nearby Cribbs Causeway ...
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NewsHundreds of potholes reported each day
About 100 to 120 reports of new potholes are received every day by Worcestershire Council.
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NewsHurricane Sandy – looking back
How Telehouse America prepared its data centers for the Superstorm - and the lessons it learned
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Charleston farmhouse gallery
Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group is a unique example of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s decorative style within a domestic context and represents the fruition of over sixty years of artistic creativity. Vanessa Bell wrote of this time; “It will be an odd life, but…it ought to ...
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NewsCharleston farmhouse picture
Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group is a unique example of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s decorative style within a domestic context and represents the fruition of over sixty years of artistic creativity. Vanessa Bell wrote of this time; “It will be an odd life, but…it ought to ...
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Charleston farmhouse with gallery
Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group is a unique example of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s decorative style within a domestic context and represents the fruition of over sixty years of artistic creativity. Vanessa Bell wrote of this time; “It will be an odd life, but…it ought to ...
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Charleston farmhouse standard
Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group is a unique example of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s decorative style within a domestic context and represents the fruition of over sixty years of artistic creativity. Vanessa Bell wrote of this time; “It will be an odd life, but…it ought to ...
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Charleston farmhouse gallery below
Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group is a unique example of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s decorative style within a domestic context and represents the fruition of over sixty years of artistic creativity. Vanessa Bell wrote of this time; “It will be an odd life, but…it ought to ...
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Charleston farmhouse video below
Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group is a unique example of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s decorative style within a domestic context and represents the fruition of over sixty years of artistic creativity. Vanessa Bell wrote of this time; “It will be an odd life, but…it ought to ...
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Charleston farmhouse video
Charleston, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group is a unique example of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s decorative style within a domestic context and represents the fruition of over sixty years of artistic creativity. Vanessa Bell wrote of this time; “It will be an odd life, but…it ought to ...
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NewsRuth Thomas: A Queen’s Nurse
Ruth Thomas won the Queen’s Nurse title after 10 years of work with the Army. She talked to Lucy Jolin about the joys of her job.
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NewsMultimedia tech boosts medical training
After qualifying as a medical doctor Wim Van Renterghem saw an opportunity to combine his profession with his passion for multimedia and video technologies to launch mediAVentures, a specialist in transmission of HD and 3D live surgery.
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NewsPII special: top tips
Over 10,000 firms of solicitors in England and Wales will again be pulling together their applications for professional indemnity insurance (PII) renewal.
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NewsPII special
Since moving to the open market in 2000, many solicitors’ firms have complained of professional indemnity insurance (PII) premium price hikes. As one anonymous lawyer put it: ‘Let’s not pretend that the insurers are some sort of benign force existing to help anyone. They are there to take premiums and ...
