Refugee day comes to London
To hammer home the plight of refuges a replica village appeared in Trafalgar Square yesterday, complete with the burnt remains of the huts and other items, it is meant to show what is it must be like to be driven from your home.
Around the village was a makeshift refugee camp, with tents and sack [...]
Giant Greenhouses come to the UK
Commercial property is a very funny area of the property business, this is mainly because of the cheap availability of ready made units and the fact that where companies have moved on from the premises these may not be suitable for other businesses.
But to buck the trend in Kent there is a commercial property being [...]
Celine Dion’s house wasting water
The world famous singer Celine Dion has spent such a long time in the Las Vegas heat that you would have thought that she would have realised that water is a short supply in some places and even if it is not short supply wasting water is just wrong.
Yet in the new Florida home of [...]
Moon to be bought and sold
As private space tourism is reaching out past the earths atmosphere there are calls for an international agreement as to what can actually be done should a private firm land on the moon and begin to colonise it.
There are several private companies interested in space tourism, but what happens when one gets to the moon, [...]
Surviving property repossession
As bad as it may seem to normal people, house repossessions are on the rise; around seventeen thousand homes were repossessed last year alone. That’s a huge amount of families who have been left without a home.
But this figure is set to rise, despite the government’s advice; if you fall behind on your mortgage payments [...]
Couple sues Google on privacy
This one has been coming for sometime and could be the start of many complaints from around the world. A couple from Pennsylvania in the States who are suing internet giant Google over images that have been taken of the house, this data is used for publishing street view images and details of property.
Google have [...]
The £100 million apartment
The most expensive apartment in world is not where you would probably think it would be, when thinking of places that are in tens of millions of pounds there is Dubai, Hong Kong and other places where you could imagine such sums of money being freely available, but no this apartment is in London, and [...]
February 11, 2008Work Begins on Green City
Work has begun on the worlds first zero carbon and zero waste city, which is going to be built in Abu Dhabi. There has been much speculation as to the reasoning about the new city which is going to be called Masdar City, firstly Abu Dhabi has the worst record in the world for the [...]
January 22, 2008Village gets windfall
For any village that is to all intents and purposes cut off from the rest of the world, a gift of over one million pounds could make quite a difference to the place and the people, or so you would think!
Pellevoisin is situated in the fantastic Loire Valley, but it is a plain place with [...]
Innocent man has to pay B&B
A man who was accused of being rapist and spent three years in jail before it was found out that his accuser was a liar, has had to pay the Prison Service £12,500 for his rent and food while being in prison.
This amazing revelation comes as his case for compensation is resolved with a payout [...]
Russia to build worlds largest building
Moscow’s skyline has some familiar sights to it, but over the past couple of decades the view has seriously changed and it is about to change again, but this time it is going to be the worlds largest building that dominates the skyline in Moscow.
Crystal island is a wide based building that towers up [...]
Tents torn down in Paris
A makeshift village of tents along side the river Seine by a homelessness action group has been brushed away by police before it could even get established. This was done last year by the same group who used just a few red tents in the centre on the city, but this last protest was going [...]
December 13, 2007All UK homes to be powered by wind power
One of the most ambitious plans for green energy is the one that the UK government have come up with, they state that by the year 2020 the UK will be completely powered by wind, which is not only a wild statement but could prove to be virtually impossible.
At the moment the UK gets [...]