An inquest into the death of a five-year-old boy following a freak fireplace accident has been further adjourned pending directions from the DPP. Gardaí told Cork City Coroner Myra Cullinane yesterday that they have submitted to the DPP’s office a file on the investigation into all the circumstances surrounding the death of Fionn Dawson at [...]
The most expensive houses in Romania are located in Bucharest, namely a 38-room palace which is up for sale for EUR 7.5 million, and a villa in Romana Square, on sale for EUR 7 million, according to a statement of imobiliare.ro, cited by local Mediafax. The palace is located in Bucharest’s Old Town, has a [...]
Six-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Amy Van Dyken’s spirits are high after severing her spinal cord in an all-terrain vehicle accident over the weekend. “Doing great today. My room is the most decorated in ICU,” she wrote on Instagram Tuesday. “Thx for ur thoughts & prayers!” The 41-year-old, who goes by her married name Amy [...]
A TEENAGER who was critically injured in a horror fall at his South Tyneside home has died. Grant Adams suffered horrific throat injuries after falling into a sunbed at his flat in South Frederick Street, Laygate, South Shields, at 9am on Sunday. One of the sunbed’s glass lighting tubes pierced his jugular, and the 17–year–old [...]
The Police star recently sold a house in Green Park for £7.5 million, and now he has put his nine-bedroom mansion over looking St James's Park on the market for more than £20 million, according to The Sun newspaper. The publication reports Sting and his wife Trudie Styler bought the expansive property for around £5.7 [...]
Nowhere in life is the old adage that beauty is in the eye of the beholder truer than in real estate. One woman’s dream home might be a mid-century modern, Mad Men styled contemporary, while another’s includes all the gingerbread charm of a classic Victorian. But when it comes to prepping a home to be [...]
The reforms by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) aim to tackle the rise of the compensation culture and reduce the amount being paid out unnecessarily by insurance companies - which can lead to higher premiums for honest customers. The price of average motor insurance fell by more than £100 over the last year, according to [...]
Many house sellers, particularly those in the less desired northern areas, have their home on the open property market for more than six months – and finally end up selling for less than 80% of their original asking price,” reports Richard Mews, senior relationship manager of sell my house fast company, Property Result. For this [...]
BILLY Connolly has sold his Scottish mansion and estate for almost £3 million. The comedian and his wife, Pamela Stephenson, have parted with Candacraig House, the baronial home in Aberdeenshire they bought in 1998. Connolly, commonly known as the Big Yin, used the property as a Highland retreat and often hosted famous guests there including [...]
Government mortgage schemes in Scotland are hitting their targets by helping first-time buyers rather than fuelling price hotspots, the industry said this week. First-time buyers took out 5900 new loans in Scotland in the first quarter of 2014, up 31% on a year ago, and 45% higher in value, according to the Council of Mortgage [...]