Downsizing pensioner uncovers remains of a long-lost palace in back garden where he is building a bungalow – solving 200-year-old mystery but landing himself with a £15,000 bill Charles Pole, 81, discovered a 700-year-old Bishop’s Palace under his lawn The discovery in Wiveliscombe, Somerset has excited local historians, who believed the Palace had been at … Read more
An experienced architect has been fined after she accused her neighbours of building ‘Nazi concentration camps’ when they knocked down garden wall and began putting up a car port. Karin Reenie Elliott sent a series of abusive texts after the couple knocked down the partition at their home in Norwich including one that read: ‘We … Read more
Billie Faiers channelled her inner Bob the Builder on Tuesday as the Shepherd family visited their new Essex home. Construction work in now under way on the £1.4m property to transform it into their dream home more than a year after they first bought it. The couple were embroiled in planning rows with their new … Read more
The average house price hit a new record high of £231,068 in February, according to a monthly index from Britain’s biggest building society. Property values climbed 6.9 per cent annually, up from 6.4 per cent in January, in what was described by Nationwide as a ‘surprise’ acceleration. A stamp duty holiday is due to end … Read more
Moment mother saves her four children by throwing them from the third floor of a burning building in Turkey A video of the incident has been shared online showing the children being saved The mother drops her children out of a window as smoke billows out behind her People in the street below hold blankets out … Read more
Yorkshire boosts loyalty factor: Building Society offers existing savers a top rate of 3.5% By Money Mail Reporter For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 23 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 23 February 2021 Yorkshire BS’s Loyalty Regular Saver offers a top rate of 3.5% Around 1.6 million loyal members of Yorkshire BS can now earn … Read more
Teenage carpenter, 17, spends two years building his own tiny wooden house at the bottom of his parents’ garden for just £6,000 with is own shower, wood stove, flushing toilet and room to sleep four people Thomas Lear was just 17 when he decided to build his own home from scratch at bottom of his … Read more
Teenage carpenter, 17, spends two years building his own tiny wooden house at the bottom of his parents’ garden for just £6,000 with is own shower, wood stove, flushing toilet and room to sleep four people Thomas Lear was just 17 when he decided to build his own home from scratch at bottom of his … Read more
Teenage carpenter, 17, spends two years building his own tiny wooden house at the bottom of his parents’ garden for just £6,000 with is own shower, wood stove, flushing toilet and room to sleep four people Thomas Lear was just 17 when he decided to build his own home from scratch at bottom of his … Read more
Hero doctor rescues Oxford jab doses from burning vaccination centre after it burst into flames as people queued for Covid injections Doctor was seen pulling refrigerated container of vaccines from health centre Patients were evacuated from Emberbrook Community Centre on Saturday Volunteers praise doctor’s heroic effort, saying: ‘It was his priority to get it out’ … Read more