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• The £20m renovation of Rochdale town hall – in pictures

  30-01-2024 07:00
  
  Rochdale town hall in Greater Manchester will open to the public on Sunday 3 March after a four-year renovation project. Some of the most dramatic changes were in the Great Hall, where specialists painstakingly restored the 350 panels that cover the room’s hammerbeam ceiling Continue reading...
  
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• ‘We just held hands and jumped!’ How one of Britain’s happiest, healthiest communes was built

  30-01-2024 06:00
  
  It took 13 years of dreaming, peril and hard graft before the first residents moved into Cannock Mill – an eco-village that tackles both the climate crisis and loneliness‘Look at this – can you see what it is?” The architect Anne Thorne is showing me around Cannock Mill, the eco-village on the outskirts of Colchester, Essex, that she designed in collaboration with a group of her friends who had grown tired of London life. We are standing behind a terrace of terracotta and
  
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