Tag: Moved

Ordinary families have moved into homes boasting minstrels’ galleries, battlements and dungeons

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Wandering through the drawing room at Penllyn Castle in South Wales, Jude Edgell imagines hosting extravagant parties here. With its glittering Waterford crystal chandeliers, handpainted wallpaper and centuries-old Louis XV-style mirrors, it would make quite the setting for a proud hostess. 

But far from being a daydream, this will soon be a reality for Jude and her husband, who bought the castle four years ago and are painstakingly converting it into an eight-­bedroom, seven-bathroom family home, complete with parapets and

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I moved out of my home due to damp: Can British Gas charge me £5k in energy bills?

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I owned a home which I had to leave at the end of 2015 due to water ingress which made it uninhabitable.

In 2020, I went back to the property to find an electric bill from British Gas for more than £2,000, even though I hadn’t been living there.

I contacted British Gas at this time and they said they would reduce it to £800, but I didn’t feel this was fair so I complained to the Ombudsman – but

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Ukraine war: Kyiv convoy has hardly moved in three days

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Vladimir Putin has today branded Ukrainians ‘extreme gangsters’, claimed their army is using civilians as ‘human shields’, hailed his soldiers as heroes who are fighting to save innocent lives and said his invasion is going exactly to plan and schedule in a stunning act of hypocrisy and outright denial.

The Russian leader, who eight days ago declared all-out war against Ukraine in a bid to topple its elected government and reunify it with Russia by force, denied that his troops

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Blue Origin’s space tourist flight is DELAYED: Mission is moved to Saturday due to poor weather 

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was set to launch its third space tourism flight on Thursday, but forecasted winds has pushed the mission to Saturday, December 11.

Liftoff from Launch Site One is now targeted for 9:45am ET from Launch Site One in the West Texas town of Van Horn.

This flight will include six passengers, who include Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley — the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, who was the first American to

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How this top TV cook wed Harry Herbert… and moved onto the Highclere estate 

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When Harry met Clodagh? Where do we begin? For once, with the happy ending.

In August this year, after a four-year romance, Irish TV chef Clodagh McKenna married the Hon. Harry Herbert in a glorious wedding in the grounds of Highclere Castle, the stately home that serves as Downton Abbey in the television series and which has been owned by his family since the 17th century. Guests included George Osborne, Richard E. Grant, Andrew Lloyd Webber and, of course, the

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My Family Moved To America And Into A Real Haunted House. Here’s What Happened.

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As a child, my first brush with a ghost wasn’t Casper or some other spook from a children’s book. I encountered the real deal in the house we rented in Pennsylvania after my family emigrated from Kuwait. It was over a century old, essentially the size and strength of a wet shoebox, and was shadowed by an ominous oak tree in a rundown neighborhood.

My dad, who grew up poor and lost his father as a teenager, had cultivated a

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