HERTFORD, HERTS June 23, 2011 COACH HOUSE 6, BALLS PARK Price: £480,000 This grade II-listed first floor apartment overlooks Balls Park. It has two double bedrooms, two en-suite bathrooms, a bespoke kitchen and a family room. It has restored sash windows, oak flooring, porcelain tiling, a double staircase among other period features. Contact: Balls Park 01992 551 777 or go [...]
IMPROVE June 23, 2011 CREATIVE DIRECTOR AT DESIGN CONSULTANCY APD INTERIORS Q. I would like to update my kitchen. What’s trendy at the moment and how can I make sure it will still look good in a few years? A. The choice of kitchen cabinets should generally depend on your future plans. If you think you will never move [...]
PROPERTY NEWS June 23, 2011 HAVE YOURSELF A CASTLE HOME Taymouth Castle in Scotland has been granted planning permission to a private developer to build a luxury hotel, golf course and a collection of private residences on the historic estate. Each residence will offer views over the golf course and surrounding landscape. The development is already in negociations with leading [...]
Rare objects of beauty for everyone to see June 23, 2011 THE country’s leading private art galleries, antique shops and jewellery stores, stocked to the rafters as they tend to be with objects that are beautiful, rare and pricey, can be intimidating places if you just fancy a browse. Enduring the gaze of a sales assistant who knows you have no intention of buying anything is [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND June 23, 2011 FILM COUNTDOWN TO ZERO Disturbing documentary about the nuclear weapons industry. Be afraid. CUTTER’S WAY Re-release for the lauded Seventies thriller, starring a dashing young Jeff Bridges. INCENDIES A gruelling drama set in Canada and the Middle East by Quebecois director Dominic Villeneuve. DVD BON IVER Eponymous sophomore album from soulful, talented singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. [...]
A gross-out comedy for the ladies June 23, 2011 Film BRIDESMAIDS Cert: 15 PRODUCED by the multi-faceted Judd Apatow, Bridesmaids follows in the footsteps of a recent wave of offbeat comedies such as Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Superbad and Knocked Up – with the crucial difference that instead of overgrown frat boys, the protagonists here are women. Saturday Night Live regular Kristen [...]
Capital & Counties submit Earls Court housing plans June 22, 2011 CAPITAL & COUNTIES Properties submitted plans yesterday for the £8bn redevelopment of Earls Court site in West London. EC Properties, a subsidiary of CapCo, presented planning applications to Hammersmith and Fulham council to demolish the 77-acre site in West Kensington – which includes the Earls Court Exhibition Centre – and replace it with 7,500 new [...]
Maths: not just for geeks June 22, 2011 FOR far too many people, maths is associated with memories of torturous classes from their childhood – the slow walk towards the blackboard to undertake the intricacy of long division. Yet there are some really good books on the market that can make maths appealing, even to the most innumerate. Indeed, the sudden rush of maths-made-fun [...]
I want to break up, but we’re going away… June 22, 2011 DEAR VEXED: I’m thinking of breaking up with my girlfriend but we’ve got a holiday booked in August. Should I wait to break up after the holiday or do it before and face the consequences? We paid quite a lot for it. Neil, distressed debt, 29 Afriend of mine was recently going through a bad [...]
OUT OF OFFICE June 22, 2011 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD The playwright Tom Stoppard made his name 40 years ago with this absurdist retelling of Hamlet from the point of view of his hapless student friends, here revived under the direction of Tom Stoppard. Samuel Barnett – known for his role as one of the classmates in the History Boys [...]