John Lennon's WC pan makes £9,500 
John Lennon's Rilcote WC Pan by Sharpe Brothers c1895 Merseyside UK - A Victorian closet pan removed by John Lennon from Tittenhurst Park, Berkshire, between 1969 and 1972, sold for £9,500 (est £800) at an annual Beatles memorabilia auction in Liverpool to an unknown ov... |
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Human rights impact assessment tool launched New York USA - This online human rights tool shows how to assess the effect a business may have on people's human rights and ways to change any negative impacts that have been reported or discovered. It contains onl... |
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Events . . . London West UK - Saturday, 4 September
Detling
Sunday, 5 September
Detling
Tuesday, 7 September
Ardingly
Drewetts: Bedsteads Grand Clearance Sale
Wednesday, 8 September
Ardingly
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Demolition firm fined for diesel leak Northamptonshire UK - An oil spill at a former pie factory which was being demolished in Chester Road, Wellingborough was the responsibility of Deltatrax Ltd trading as BDS Specialists in Demolition, Northampton magistrate... |
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Staffordshire Hoard To Stay In The Midlands Staffordshire UK - The hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold unearthed a couple of miles from the home of UKAA by a Burntwood metal detectorist has been saved for generations of local families to enjoy, after a huge fundraising cam... |
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Let Defra have your views London West UK - Jonathan Essex asks for everyone to respond to Defra's waste review.
Defra writes: Preparing for reuse means checking, cleaning or repairing products or parts of products so that they can be re-us... |
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Esavian - the Educational Supply Association - and James Leonard 
Chair to c1948 James Leonard design, with associated desk, by Esavian [photo Trainspotters Hertfordshire UK - Esavian was the trading brand name for the Educational Supply Association Ltd, a leading UK supplier of school books, school furniture and fixtures including laboratory euqipment, windows and folding ... |
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Chinese rice mortar tradition confirmed Beijing China - Oral tradition has it that old Chinese building mortars contained rice broth and bittern, instead of the hydraulic lime used in the West, due to the shortage of naturally-occurring hydraulic material.... |
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H&SE issues cherrypicker guidance 
Above: MEWPs scissor-lift mobile platform (left) and two cherrypickers [photo safetyculture.com.au Glamorgan UK - The UK Health & Safety Executive have issued guidance notes on safe practice with cherrypickers and other mobile work platforms.
More people die from falls at work than from any other cause but the... |
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Married at a salvage yard 
Architectural Antiques Minneapolis ready for dinner [photo from website Minnesota USA - Rachael Hope, director of digital ads at MTV, and Jeremy Tilsner, financial data analyst, were married at Architectural Antiques Minneapolis on 6th August.
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