A landmark church is being has been put on the market for around £100,000. St James’ Church, New Bury, Farnworth, which has been closed to worshippers since 2012, is being offered for sale.
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One of Scotland’s top universities is selling its £380,000-a-year principal’s plush official residence amid rumours of a financial crisis.
Strathclyde put Sir Jim McDonald’s Glasgow townhouse up for sale earlier this month for £1.3million.
The sum is close to what it paid for the property in 2013 before giving it a controversial £350,000 makeover.
At the time, officials claimed it would be a “long-term investment” but the Sunday Mail understands it is now being sold due to financial pressures.
A report from accountancy giant PwC warned fall-ing international student numbers and rising wage bills have left universities facing a perfect storm. It said 10 of Scotland’s 15 universities are at risk of falling into a financial deficit by 2027.
A source said: “The principal’s townhouse now looks like an extravagant purchase which can no longer be justified. It’s a beautiful property and eye-watering sums were spent on furnishings and renovation at the time. There are a number of other teaching buildings in the city which are being mothballed.
“The university is adamant this is nothing to do with financial pressure but everyone knows that costs have to be cut because the money just isn’t coming in like it was 10 years ago when Strathclyde and others embarked on major new building programmes.
|The problem is that for various reasons – Brexit being the most obvious one – there is not the same volume of
foreign students arriving to pay high fees for a respected Scottish degree.
“Many Scottish young people are also realising going to university is often likely to result in a huge amount of debt and worse job prospects than other options such as apprenticeships and vocational college courses. The PwC report was a wake-up call and it
A landmark church is being has been put on the market for around £100,000. St James’ Church, New Bury, Farnworth, which has been closed to worshippers since 2012, is being offered for sale.
Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated film editor, died last Sunday at his home in Studio City, California, from respiratory failure after a prolonged illness. He was 88.
Eagles singer Don Henley is seeking the return of his handwritten notes and song lyrics from the band’s iconic Hotel California album, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in New York.
show’s creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, as they created it through their production company Fake Empire – features the iconic theme song “California.” Bilson told Variety in an interview published Wednesday that she got involved because, “Josh told me about it. I have to start by saying anything that Josh and Stephanie do, I’m always like, ‘Yeah.’ They say, ‘Jump.’ I say, ‘How high?’… When they said we’re going to bring Summer back and they were writing it, of course I’m going to do it because how fun does that sound? Tequila and Summer, come on! She’s obviously drinking her tequila because no Orange County housewife can survive without it.”When the outlet asked Bilson if summer is a “Real Housewife of Orange County,” the actress said, “I feel like she should be.” “The O.C.” aired on Fox from 2003 to 2007.
A charming property situated in a quiet coastal Scottish village has just gone on the market.
Manchester United are watching on as Premier League clubs scramble to get a boatlod of transfer deals done before June 30 - and could look to capitalise with a monster move of their own.
A strange-looking object which resembles a 'UFO' has been spotted hovering in the sky above Glasgow.
EXCLUSIVE: Members of the Hollywood guilds are throwing their weight behind IATSE and the Basic Crafts as the below-the-line unions continue to chip away at new three-year deals with the studios.
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This summer, like many major European clubs, Manchester United will be heading across the Atlantic for a pre-season tour of North America.
It looks like Katy Perry has reunited with Dr. Luke and several other past collaborators for her upcoming new album.
The Struts have announced ‘The Grand Union’ UK and European tour with Barns Courtney – check out all details below.The Derby band are now gearing up to tour in the UK this September, where they’ll be stopping by cities such as Leeds, Manchester, and Newcastle before finishing their tour with a show at London’s Roundhouse on October 6.From there, they’ll also be visiting European cities like Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and Prague, with the EU leg of their tour concluding at Milan’s Fabrique on the 21st.The Struts will also be bringing Aylesbury’s Barns Courtney as their special guest for their UK/EU tour. Courtney has previously toured with the band for their headline American tour for their fourth album, ‘Pretty Vicious‘.Speaking about the tour, frontman Luke Spiller shared: “We are really looking forward to getting back out and bringing our best show to date alongside our longterm friend and partner in rock, Barns Courtney.
Tomorrow X Together (TXT) have announced their first-ever virtual reality concert, dubbed ‘Hyperfocus’, which will be screened from next month onwards.The band’s forthcoming VR concert is set to take place across five different cities in the US over the following months. The ‘Hyperfocus’ concert promises to “deliver an unforgettable performance that allows fans to get up close and personal” with the boyband, per Billboard.“We have been thinking about how to get closer to our fans, and this VR concert is an opportunity for us to do so,” TXT said of the forthcoming VR concert in a press statement.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been urged to stop “monetizing” their links to the Windsor clan if they ever want to be welcomed back into the royal fold.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have clung onto their royal titles despite sensationally quitting royal life in 2020.Soon after settling down in Montecito, California, the duo signed on the dotted line for a series of tell-all projects, each of which revealed bombshell details about the ongoing rift between both camps.And according to royal correspondent Russell Myers, the Sussexes won’t be welcomed back into the royal family anytime soon if they don’t change their ways.“Members from the royal family have told Harry, if he wants a relationship with the rest of the family, then first and foremost, he has got to stop talking about them,” he told Sky News Australia.“They can’t go about making money off their associations with the royal family.“They’re going to [have to] sort of realize, if they’re going to have a relationship with the rest of the royal family, they can’t go about trashing them,” Myers continued.Still, he noted that the Firm is very much “united without them” — despite the repeated digs from across the pond.“Hopefully, they’ll see that the royal family are very united without them, and if they do want a relationship, going forward, they need to take the steam out of their relationship and out of the things they say sometimes,” he added.Last week, it was reported that King Charles had “directly” asked his estranged son to stop leaking personal details about the royal family’s private life.Since their trans-Atlantic move to the US, the pair have been conducting themselves as members of the royal family whether it be in business ventures or press
Cricket fans of all ages can look forward to a festival of fun and top-class T20 action in July, as Lancashire Cricket and Trafford Council team up to mark the 50th anniversary of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford.
Angela Bofill, who had numerous hits on the R&B charts in the 1970s and 1980s, died Thursday at her daughter’s home in Vallejo, California at 70. No cause was given by her manager and on her personal Facebook account.
The Hollywood Basic Crafts have officially wrapped the first week of negotiations on a new three-year agreement with the studios.
Scotland's defeat didn’t mean the end of the party and when the sole Scotland goal hit the net the festivities began once again - but the win was all too short lived.
Former workers at a Glasgow bar have lodged an official bid to reopen it after it closed its doors when employees went on strike.
NOFX have announced the line-ups for their final three shows – see the rosters they’ve amassed below.Last night (June 12), NOFX took to social media to share the daily line-ups for their trilogy of farewell shows in San Pedro, California. Each line-up differs from day to day, and will see other iconic bands in the genre support NOFX as they take their final bows.On Friday (October 4), the band will see support from Dropkick Murphys, MXPX, Bouncing Souls, Sick Of It All, 7 Seconds, DOA, D.I., Luicidal, The Last Gang and Knuckleheadz.The following day, NOFX will be supported by Descendents, Less Than Jake, Lagwagon, Strung Out, Good Riddance, Mad Caddies, Swingin’ Utters, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Get Dead and Poli Van Dam.NOFX’s final show ever will take place on October 5 with Pennywise, The Vandals, Subhumans, Fishbone, Codefendants, The Flatlines, We Are The Union, Das Klown and a surprise band from the UK.Tickets to NOFX’s final shows are available now.A post shared by Punk In Drublic (@punkindrublicfestival)Per a statement from the band, their support for the final three shows were “hand selected by the band,” some of whom are their “closest friends from over the years”.The Los Angeles-formed punk rock band announced back in November that they would be embarking on their final run of shows in 2024 to wrap up a 40-year career.