Patricia Massey, a housing specialist who helped rebuild Canton and renovated Reservoir Hill apartment houses, died Feb. 25 at University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 77 and lived in Canton.
Scheme to create £150,000 Hope Bell memorial for Covid-19 victims in Loughborough
It would be made at the town s bell foundry
Taylor s Bell Foundry in Loughborough
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Two out of control mothers kicked woman repeatedly in the street
Sisters, Donna Phillips and Rachael Wilkinson, launched a drunken attack on the victim as she lay defenceless on the ground
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A woman was repeatedly kicked by two sisters who drunkenly attacked her in the street.
The assailants, both mothers in their 30 s, were later said to be shocked and disgusted when shown footage of the incident in Swan Street, Loughborough.
Leicester Crown Court was told the victim was out with her friends and husband, who was celebrating getting a new job, when she became unwell and went outside the Bell Foundry pub with a female friend, in February last year, before the coronavirus lockdown.
Harry Rosehill London s Oldest Family-Owned Businesses
In an age of buy-outs and corporate takeovers, it may come as a surprise that some major London businesses are still family-owned. These companies are still run by descendants of their original founder, their most valuable heirloom passed down through multiple generations. Here are London s seven oldest:
1. Creed - 1760
In 1760 James Henry Creed s delivered a pair of scented gloves to the new monarch, King George III. The gloves came from Creed, the company that he had just founded. It started as a tailoring company but the focus quickly shifted to perfume. Creed s headquarters have now moved to Paris, but there s still a store in Mayfair and several other London stockists, and Creed s descendants still run the now-global business.