Visit England Awards for NW Foodie Favourites
Several of the North-West’s favourite pubs, restaurants and hotels have been successful at this year’s Visit England Awards. Topping the list with Gold in the Taste of England Award is Overwater Hall, Hotel in Ireby, Cumbria with The...
£90m development scheme for Macclesfield town centre
The go-ahead has been given for a landmark £90m ‘once-in-a-generation’ scheme to revitalise Macclesfield town centre in Cheshire and build on its rich cultural heritage as the world's biggest producer of finished silk during the 19th...
Surrey Celebrates Girl Power!
This month, Epsom Down Racecourse has commemorated the centenary of the events of 4 June 1913. Brave suffragette, Emily Wilding Davison was fatally injured when she stepped in front of King George V’s horse as it ran in the famous Epsom Derby. Her...
Young Being Priced Out of Countryside
According to research from the National Housing Federation (NHF), rising housing costs means that younger people are being priced out of the countryside and replaced by pensioners. The data for the research came from census findings, which...
House prices to rise 10% in 18 months
Financial services firm Morgan Stanley has predicted that UK property prices will surge by 10% in the next 18 months. Data from the Morgan Stanley report revealed that the average home is currently worth £167,912. They anticipate that this will...
Grand Opening of new £43m Furness College Campus this Weekend
This Saturday (15 June 2013) the brand new Furness College campus in Barrow-In-Furness is throwing open its doors to the whole community to see the state-of-the-art facilities and learn about the courses now on offer. The College provides a wide...
HIDDEN GEMS - SILVERDALE & ARNSIDE
Many people travelling north on the M6 to Cumbria and the Lake District are oblivious to the fact that they're by-passing two hidden gems. Straddling the Cumbria/Lancashire border on the south side of the Kent estuary, Arnside (Cumbria) and...
Oxfordshire’s Summer of Festivals
The temperature is rising, the season of festivals has officially begun, and the county of Oxfordshire is set to show the rest of the UK just how it’s done. The number and variety of events on offer means that there is something to do almost every...
Cartmel - more than just Sticky Toffee Pudding!
Most people will have heard of Cartmel for one of three reasons – either for Cartmel Races on the National Hunt circuit, as the location of Simon Rogan’s celebrated L’Enclume restaurant or as the home of Sticky Toffee Pudding! However,...
Home Sales in Wales at a 6 Year High
Figures released this week by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) from their Residential Market Survey show home sales in Wales at their highest level in 6 years. In the 3 months to May, chartered surveyors in Wales sold an average...
2000 New Jobs for Oxfordshire
Plans are about to be unveiled for two new distribution and logistics buildings near Didcot Power Station in Sutton Courtenay. A formal planning application to build two separate buildings on the 62-acre site is expected to be submitted next...
One in Five over-55s Wants to Downsize
The high cost of running a home means that one in five people aged over 55 would like to downsize in the next five years. According to a study by a retirement specialist, 19% of over-55s (approximately 1 million people) cannot afford to run their...
Gloucestershire Badger Cull Begins
We Brits were brought up on tales of Toad, Ratty and Mole, having listened to stories from The Wind in the Willows’ since our earliest years. Badger, the well-respected but elusive character who lives deep in the Wild Wood is such a sensible and...
Supply v Demand – what it means for you
Depending on which statistics you choose to follow, the number of properties coming to the market for sale is either up on last year, or slightly down and therefore helping to bolster asking prices. Those who have reported a drop in the number of...
Gardens – Tenants’ Responsibilities
In a recently published case, a couple were ordered to pay a £5,000 bill to have the garden of the property they had rented dug up and covered with gravel. Having spent £20,000 and eleven years transforming the two-acre plot into a series of...
