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BBC News
21-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
New homes created at former Victorian school house in Telford
Work to transform a former Victorian school house and cottage hospital into new homes is expected to be complete by this autumn, councillors have been School House in St Georges, Telford, built in 1873, is a Grade II-listed building being turned into 13 homes and a community Georges & Priorslee Parish Council was told the roof of the building has been Rob Cadman said the rain would "stay on the outside" after work on the ceiling and insulation was carried out. He also said the bell tower had to come down because it was in bad condition, but a replica would be building operated as a school for 80 England said the site was originally built as a hospital for factory workers at the Lilleshall Works iron smelters, a major local employer, before it was converted into a school in 1879. A meeting of the authority heard the project had been delayed because of the age of the building and the "surprise discovery" of a Victorian water & Wrekin Council and its housing company Nuplace are working on the project with the parish includes three two-bedroom homes in the existing building and 10 two-bedroom new-build homes behind Stephen Handley said that he had his "fingers crossed" for completion in September 2025, adding: "Before long, people will be in there, calling these houses home." This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, which covers councils and other public service organisations. Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
11-02-2025
- Business
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Building firm chosen to overhaul Wellington Indoor Market
A local building company has been chosen to refurbish an indoor & Wrekin Council bought Wellington Market in 2023 and said it would restore the market's Victorian has now given the contract for the work to Pave Aways, a construction company based in market, which was established by a charter in 1244, is home to more than 50 shopping units and cafes and a food court. In a statement on Tuesday, the council said it would work with traders to "ensure a 'business as usual' approach" as much as possible while the work took refurbishment aims to improve the market's layout and accessibility, while retaining its historic work is part of an overall regeneration plan for Wellington, which has been drawn up by the council and partly funded with £12m from the government's Towns Fund and Capital Regeneration Aways has won other contracts to work on other historic buildings in Shropshire including the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings and Wellington's former YMCA building, according to the company's Ginger, an architecture firm based in Leeds, will also work on the market restoration project. Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
27-01-2025
- General
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West Midlands remembers Holocaust as survivor tells of 'hell on earth'
A Holocaust survivor, who was aged 10 when the Nazis closed his Jewish school in Germany and deported him, has described the "hell on earth" that Goldberg, now 94, was sent to the Riga ghetto in Latvia with his mother and younger went on to be sent to five labour camps over the course of World War Two, including more than eight months in the Stutthof concentration camp and its subcamps – Stolp and Goldberg, who lives in London, has been sharing his experiences with children in Shropshire to ensure that people never forget what happened. It comes as events to mark Holocaust Memorial Day are held across the West Midlands year, the annual memorial date will mark 80 years since the largest World War Two concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated on 27 January just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in the south of occupied Poland near the town of Oswiecim. In a visit to a Newport school, Mr Goldberg told pupils: "My purpose for coming here is because what happened must never be forgotten, in order to make sure it can never ever happen again."He described how his father had been able to escape to the UK days before World War Two broke younger brother Herman died in the camps, he said, while he and his mother survived and were reunited in Goldberg said: "Once people understand what the Holocaust represents, I think every single one of them contributes to preventing it ever happening again."Silence never helps the oppressed." Tamworth Castle in Staffordshire will be lit up in purple as one of the memorial events taking place on Monday and a wreath will also be laid outside St Editha's Church in the town, in honour of victims of the Holocaust and other genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Royal British Legion will hold a ceremony outside the church at 11:00 leader Carol Dean said the castle would be lit up in tribute to survivors and to take a stand against prejudice, discrimination and said: "The Holocaust threatened the fabric of civilisation, and genocide must still be resisted every day.""Our world often feels fragile and vulnerable, and we cannot be complacent."Even in the UK, prejudice and the language of hatred must be challenged by us all." Services were held on Sunday by Redditch and Sandwell the Sandwell event, Mindu Hornick spoke about her journey as an Auschwitz and Holocaust Hornick, from Birmingham, gives talks to young people about the horrors of the camps and has previously spoken to the BBC amid rising reports of antisemitic incidents in recent in Worcester included an interfaith ceremony, poetry readings and a talk about the response of ordinary people to the radicalisation of the & Wrekin Council is holding a special civic ceremony at AFC Telford on Monday and will be livestreaming it on Facebook. The event will include testimony from Mr Warwick's annual street service will take place by the war memorial, including readings by school children and a poem written by a King's High student on this year's theme - the fragility of primary schools in the town are taking part in a special ceremony to learn about the Kindertransport - a mission that helped thousands of Jewish children to safety from Germany and Austria before the outbreak of war.A service will also be held in Wolverhampton, organised by the city council and Interfaith Wolverhampton, at the city's art are being urged to take part in the remembrance by placing a lit candle in their window in the national Light the Darkness at 20:00. Follow BBC Birmingham on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
