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Local villagers have revealed their ‘devastation’ over a planning row which erupted with a former high flying banker who transformed his country seat into a luxury £3 million wedding venue. Green Cow founders Joe and Keeley Evans, from Herefordshire, spent £3m building a luxury events complex on their 1,500-acre Whitbourne Estate, and marketed the venue a year as … Read more
Matt Damon arrived in Australia with his wife and family in January ahead of filming onThor: Love and Thunder. After completing mandatory quarantine at a private mansion, the Hollywood actor, 50, was enjoying his freedom with a stroll in the seaside town of Byron Bay, NSW. The Good Will Hunting star took a stroll along … Read more
Jason Manford has revealed he’s been volunteering to drive locals to a COVID-19 vaccine centre so they can get the jab. The comedian, 39, reassured fans he wasn’t actually giving out the jab after he shared a snap outside his local vaccination centre in Stockport on Wednesday. It comes after Jason took on a job … Read more
An Australian millionaire is facing the prospect of demolishing his £4 million eco-home after enraging locals by flouting planning rules to buy a ‘Grand Designs-style monstrosity’ in a sleepy village. Neighbours in the parish of Bothenhampton in Dorset are up in arms at the size of the property built by businessman Kim Hughes and his … Read more
‘Homeless village’ takes over London’s exclusive Park Lane as locals blast piles of rubbish left outside tents By James Gant For Mailonline Published: 23:39 GMT, 9 January 2021 | Updated: 23:40 GMT, 9 January 2021 Advertisement Share or comment on this article:
A property developer’s plan to convert a £3million plot overlooking millionaire’s row Sandbanks into a £10million super-development has sparked anger among local residents. Bayview Developments hope to convert the prime plot, currently occupied by a single bungalow, into a site for three luxury homes – including a neo-classical mansion. But residents in the affluent area … Read more
Villagers struggling to buy their first home in unaffordable a Dorset ‘ghost village’ filled with holiday homes have been thrown a lifeline after new houses were built for locals only. The nine homes have been built in Worth Matravers on the picturesque Isle of Purbeck, a peninsular in Dorset. Sixty per cent of the 180 … Read more
Byron Bay has become immensely popular with A-list celebrities, who have flocked to the NSW seaside town. The coastal enclave has even been dubbed ‘Hollywood 2.0’ thanks to the number of Tinseltown stars who have in recent years either enjoyed vacations in the area, or settled down there permanently. But the likes of Chris Hemsworth, Zac … Read more
Revellers on the Isles of Scilly are bidding farewell to 2020 from the only three pubs open in England as the archipelago remains in Tier 1. The islands are the only areas in England under the most-relaxed level of Covid restrictions – meaning pubs, bars and restaurants are open for sit-in customers. There are normally around … Read more
Don’t do anything Scilly! Locals in the only part of England still under Tier 1 beg tourists NOT to travel to the islands – and say they can’t make the most of their freedoms because there’s not much to do in winter anyway! The Isles of Scilly are the only part of England in Tier … Read more