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David Dimbleby to build tennis court to 'cut carbon footprint'

David Dimbleby, the television presenter, has been given permission to build a private tennis court at his £1.5m country mansion after telling planners it would help cut his carbon footprint. The Question Time presenter told...

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39st man given new £300k home

Custom-built ... Michael and Heather Williment's new council home TAXPAYERS are forking out £300,000 so an obese grandad can have a new council house custom built to cope with his massive 39-stone bulk. Michael Williment is...

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Fury over airport's move to demolish family homes

TWO family homes will be bulldozed to make way for an airport hangar. Airport bosses were granted permission to pull down the historic cottages on Hasty Lane, Ringway, to build a cargo unit. Protesters gathered outside...

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Students launch Malawi challenge

STUDENTS from The King’s Academy in Middlesbrough have launched a new UK-wide enterprise competition that will be judged by BBC Dragons Duncan Bannatyne and Doug Richard. The ‘One Big Idea’ competition, that will address...

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NYT: U.S. fears Iraq projects will go to waste

Officials cite lack of expertise — and of money — to maintain facilities An Iraqi worker at a new water treatment plant in Baghdad's Sadr City. In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan, the United States...

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Block 37 changes hands

Bank of America wins ruling appointing CB Richard Ellis as receiver; Freed vows to appeal In a major setback to its urban ambitions, Joseph Freed and Associates LLC lost control of the long-troubled Block 37 project just as the...

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Some Washington area homeowner groups struggling financially

As planned communities have grown in Washington's outer suburbs, some of their homeowners associations have evolved from groups that handle mundane tasks such as collecting trash and scolding the owners of unkempt lawns into...

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Property developer acquires land in Beijing at 5.05 bln yuan

BEIJING, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Dalong Estate, a Shanghai-listed property developer owned by Beijing's Shunyi district government, had acquired a parcel of residential land in Shunyi for 5.05 billion yuan (739 million U.S....

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Mayor's decisions on 'recovery zone' projects expected soon

BDC has reviewed 19 project requests for $30.8 million in funding help Nineteen development teams have applied to take advantage of $30.8 million in funding assistance available to construct or rehabilitate buildings within a...

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13 charged in $19M Central Oregon bank fraud (AP)

AP - The collapse of a Bend real estate development company has resulted in charges against 13 people in what prosecutors say is the largest Oregon fraud case to emerge from the national real estate boom and bust.

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