Wet 'n' Wild owner Serco Leisure confirms the sale, but does not reveal details of its new owner.

Waterpark sold to unnamed developer

A plan to use an empty Grade II listed mansion, previously used by the BBC, to provide assisted living units has been approved. Caversham Park, in Reading, Berkshire, was used by BBC Monitoring and BBC Radio Berkshire until 2018. Reading Borough Council planning officers supported the proposal to use Caversham...

Conversion of listed mansion site approved

Plans to build new commercial units at a Lincolnshire business park have been submitted. Leicester-based Boxpod Commercial Units wants to create 23 new units on Enterprise Way in Endeavour Park, at Wyberton Fen, near Boston. The proposed scheme would generate six plots, each with a varying number of individual units,...

Plan submitted to build new units at business park

A London council has been forcing residents into silence as a condition of them receiving money owed to them for building work and services they had been overcharged for - in some cases by tens of thousands of pounds. Lambeth Council was asked by the BBC how many leaseholders it...

Council refunded £1.5m to 'gagged' leaseholders

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Get to know Ayobami Akeju; he is a 23-year-old with a portfolio worth £1.2 million ($1.5 million). According to Absolutely Business, he has 11 properties across the UK. The supermarket worker has homes in Hull, East Yorkshire and Carlisle; he has purchased seven properties in the latter. Each home ranges in value from $121,000 to...

This 23-year-old owns 11 homes worth millions of dollars but still works 9 to 5 supermarket job

A pharmacist who admitted to selling drugs without a prescription for his own financial gain has received a suspended sentence. In April, Gerard Cullinan, of Hillside Crescent in Belfast, pleaded guilty on behalf of his company Castlereagh Pharmacy Ltd to selling or supplying painkiller co-codamol and opioid fentanyl without a prescription between January 2017 and June 2020.

Pharmacist sold drugs without prescription

Four Sri Lankan fishermen have died and another two are critically ill after consuming an unknown liquid from bottles they found while at sea, according to local media reports. The sailors were said to be on a fishing trip when they retrieved the bottles around 320 nautical miles from Tangalle,...

Four die after drinking from bottles found in sea

The lead actor in the original detective series Bergerac has said he was offered a cameo role but turned it down. John Nettles, who is 80, said he was "too old" for the role. The original BBC series, which was based in and depicted Jersey and aired from 1981 to 1991, featured Nettles as Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac.

Bergerac star John Nettles turns down remake role

Two men are arrested and a crime scene is in place after a woman was attacked at the M32 Skatepark.

Woman raped in early hours of morning in skatepark

An Italian restaurant where police found suspected class A drugs is due to have its licence reviewed this week. A “significant quantity” of drugs was found at Puccinis in Shirley Road, Southampton, on 3 May, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said. A 29-year-old woman and five men,...

Restaurant where police found drugs faces licence review

A cafe which was built without planning permission in a Bradford conservation area must be demolished, the city council has said. The Chai Village, which is a cafe constructed using a shipping container, a seating area and a large LED screen, was built on a vacant site on Thornton Road in 2022.

Demolition order for cafe built without permission

Two men and a woman remain in custody for questioning, Cumbria Police say.

Three arrested and drugs seized in police raid

More than 100 cannabis plants have been seized from a property and will be destroyed, said police. Essex Police found the cannabis plants in a house in Mallows Green, Harlow, Essex, at about 06:00 BST on Monday. A spokesperson from the force said the property had a "sophisticated" set up...

More than 100 cannabis plants found in Essex home

A mother grieving the loss of two of her three children who took their own lives said she never imagined it was possible. Tanya and Stevie Kordek began experiencing mental health problems as teenagers but struggled to get help as adults, their mother said. Inspired by her children, Leanda Kelly,...

'You don't expect your children to take their lives'

Jan and Els were married for almost five decades. In early June, they died together after being given lethal medication by two doctors. In the Netherlands, this is known as duo-euthanasia. It’s legal, and it’s rare - but every year, more Dutch couples choose to end their lives this way.

Dying together: Why a happily married couple decided to stop living

Fly-tipped waste was dumped across a Derbyshire district more than three times a day over the past year, a council says. Council officers in Bolsover were called to clear up 1,200 incidents of fly-tipped waste in the 12 months to April this year. Items including tyres, asbestos and household waste...

Fly-tippers strike three times a day, council says

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California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

A 300-year-old Staffordshire building which was visited by the founder of the Methodist Church and the designer William Morris is to get two plaques. The Old Stone House in Edward Street, Leek, is Grade II Listed and dates back to 1724. It was once owned by prominent town merchants, and...

Plaque to remember two famous visitors to house

North Korea is carrying out a widespread crackdown on everything from wedding dresses to slang as it seeks to counter the South's influence, a new report has revealed. The report - released by South Korea's Unification Ministry - is based on the testimony of hundreds of defectors. It includes the...

North Korea cracking down on wedding dresses and slang - report

A rare £100 banknote from 1855, which was worth such an enormous sum at the time it had to be cut in half for safe delivery, has fetched £32,000 at auction. The note, issued by the Liverpool branch of the Bank of England 169 years ago, was worth approximately £15,000 in today's money on the date it was issued.

Council's former HQ mistakenly listed for sale

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