A woman has transformed her ugly 1930s family home into a stunning five bedroom modern masterpiece by splashing £250,000 on an enormous extension. Katy Wilson, 36, from Derbyshire, bought her detached three-bedroom property back in February 2015 and spent years applying for planning permission to overhaul the entire house. She was finally able to get … Read more
A woman has transformed her ugly 1930s family home into a stunning five bedroom modern masterpiece by splashing £250,000 on an enormous extension. Katy Wilson, 36, from Derbyshire, bought her detached three-bedroom property back in February 2015 and spent years applying for planning permission to overhaul the entire house. She was finally able to get … Read more
As part of the ‘Reclaim Her Name’ campaign, a series of books by female authors who used male pen names will be re-released with the writer’s real name. The books include: Set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch, Miss Evans’ book focuses on Dorothea’s loveless marriage to the pompous, middle-aged Reverend Casaubon Middlemarch, by … Read more
The exact spot where Vincent Van Gogh painted his final masterpiece hours before he shot himself has been discovered in a French village – with the help of a postcard, researchers have claimed. Experts believe that ‘Tree Roots’ was painted on Van Gogh’s final day in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris. The tortured Dutch … Read more
Row over ‘fake’ 17th century masterpiece lands hedge fund boss with £4.5m bill from Sotheby’s By Mario Ledwith for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 12 December 2019 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 12 December 2019 An American hedge fund boss has been forced to pay around £4.5million to Sotheby’s after it sold a 17th century … Read more
Swans, cobblestones and lace shops: Bruges doesn’t disappoint if your hopes for a weekend away includes old-fashioned charm. But this medieval masterpiece of a city, reached from London in little more than three hours on Eurostar, also has avant-garde musical installations, irresistible chocolate shops and a thriving beer scene all set on winding, ancient lanes. … Read more
Ermoupoli is possibly the most extraordinary town in Greece. There’s no maze of alleys, no whitewashed houses and no heaps of tangled fishing nets in the harbour. What you get instead is a busy city, whose broad squares, grandly domed churches and pastel-coloured mansions look more Italian than Greek. Ermoupoli is the capital of Syros, … Read more
After a year-long investigation by Claudia Joseph, Simon Trump, Ewan Fletcher, Adam Luck, Jason Buckner and Craig Hibbert, the Mail on Sunday named Banksy as Robin Gunningham. The search began with a photograph taken in Jamaica showing a man in a blue shirt and jeans, with a hint of a smile on his face and a … Read more