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Statue found in salvage yard turns out to be £100k work by Trevi Fountain sculptor (opens the original)
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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. A marble sculpture bought at a reclamation yard for £300 is expected to fetch as much as £100,000 at auction after being identified as the work of a celebrated Italian master sculptor. The 290-year-old Italian marble maquette, depicting Pope Clement XII Corsini, was discovered by a keen-eyed builder at a salvage yard in Wiltshire. Originating from a Hampshire country house
£4m Sandbanks mansion could be torn down after neighbour wins High Court battle (opens the original)
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A newly constructed £4m mansion on Sandbanks faces potential demolition following a successful legal challenge by a neighbour who sued the local council over a flawed planning process. Neil Kennedy, a retired accountant, had believed he held valid permission for his luxury property overlooking Poole Harbour, which replaced an old chalet bungalow previously on the site. However, neighbour Garth Weston, the managing director of Ryvita, took legal action after discovering that contractors had fail
Amazon millionaire in privacy row over Dorset neighbourâs balcony (opens the original)
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An entrepreneur who made a small fortune through her Amazon business is locked in a privacy dispute with a neighbour, who has built an unauthorised balcony looking directly over her garden. Michele Venton and her husband Dan were left dismayed after discovering that retired software engineer Ian Bray had exceeded his planning consent for a Juliet balcony at the rear of his property. Instead of fitting a protective railing flush in front of inward-opening French doors, Mr Bray built a platform on
Food waste bins not emptied for weeks because of heatwave temperatures (opens the original)
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A local council is under fire after failing to collect residents' food waste because the weather was too hot for the bin collectors. Residents in Bournemouth and Poole in Dorset say their food bins are 'writhing with maggots' because the council haven't collected the rotting waste in the heatwave. Many say their bins haven't been collected for two weeks but others have reported going as many as five weeks without a collection. They say the small bins are becoming unhygienic and smell rancid, cau
Angry neighbours claim Guy Ritchie trying to expand Dorset airfield âby stealthâ (opens the original)
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Guy Ritchieâs neighbours are up in arms after the film directorâs plans to create holiday flats at his historic Dorset airfield were approved. Locals accused the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director of creating an âaviation theme park by stealthâ by converting staff accommodation at Compton Abbas Airfield into Airbnbs. Residents said that Ritchie was expanding commercial operations âby any meansâ with no consideration for the local environment. They claimed that the ultimate
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