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EXCLUSIVE: Dariush Majidi, 65, bought the four-bed detached home (pictured) in the billionaires playground of Sandbanks, Poole, for £1m in 2008, but it has shot up in value to £1.6m.

The traditional British high street was, for so many, the beating heart of their town. But as huge chains consumed spaces once filled by local independent businesses – and struggling firms began to disappear entirely – was the soul of our towns lost? Christopher Howse is travelling the nation to speak to local people about their high street. How it has changed, what they miss… and why there are still joys to be found. This week, Christopher explores Abbeygate Street in Bury ...

Sure enough, after our last convo by phone, you seemed to have mustered up enough of your ever-regenerating vigor (after all, it was enough to kick four forms of cancer, without a whimper or complaint) and still be willing to explore emergency rebellion within our deteriorating pathological society. I set up my trip to come back to Texas, expecting to encounter your grin, your wit and intellectual mojo still stirring me up.

The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s upcoming book “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned

There are problems with the Netflix so called "documentary" and this is how I think we, in the Greek diaspora, should come together to correct. I write as a Greek American who stands with Egypt — a country I love. What Netflix did involve three unacceptable historical and cultural no-nos — presentism, historical negationism, and appropriation.

The Greek revival style in Australian architecture and the reception of classical Greek ideas in Australia, Europe and globally, particularly in the built

Song of the spring In the day and age of the ‘articulate’ artist, Muhammad Atif Khan does his utmost to keep his message short and simple: “It must be from the heart”. For Khan, that statement is like a mantra. He unapologetically rails against conceptualism in any form. His stance, like his work, is deliberately naïve and simplistic. His career has been a careful balancing act between a dilettante and a careerist. Khan’s recent suite of digital prints titled, More Love Songs, rests...