Gaze - York off the boil, quirky on it
By Thornton Kay
Norfolk UK - Carl Willows said that the auctioneers struggled to get the first bid in a generally subdued air at the architectural salvage sale on 21 August at Gaze's of Diss. However, there was a better mix of bi . . .
John Lennon's WC pan makes £9,500
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 . . .
Esavian - the Educational Supply Association - and James Leonard
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 . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
H&SE issues cherrypicker guidance
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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