An appeal against an injunction by self-styled ‘Lord’ Edward Davenport to use his Mayfair home for commercial “partiesâ€, “porn discosâ€, functions and film shoots has been dismissed by the court of appeal.
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Tuesday this week saw a bidding war take place between 10 eager gents as each made a mad dash for a decommissioned public toilet. Some went expecting only to pay a penny, but Cawston builder Nick Willan came away £104,000 lighter, having paid £74,000 more than the guide price. Reports indicate that the rest seemed exceptionally uncomfortable at the result.
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Property Surveyors around the Country have reported that over a quarter of British Streets do not have a number 13.
Romeo, the urban fox, had been living at the top of The Shard, in London, until he was evicted.
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Last month we reported on Light Pollution. This month we see that there is an award for a UK island.
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Grant Shapps, the housing minister, told Radio 4 on the 3rd January when commenting on the end of boom and bust in the housing market, that it was not “within the gift of government to do that”. He stated that “I would be foolish to say that you can simply end boom and bust, you can’t.”
Mr Shapps did confirm that there were policies that the Government could use to influence the market such as those affecting mortgages and investments.
Contrast that with the exuberant comments coming out of 10 Downing Street in the early years of the Blair-Brown Government. “No more boom and bust.”
Such realism from a government minister seems rather novel and refreshing!
