Simon Trafford News Today

Frome residents have cause for festive joy after their preferred vision for a new development moved a step closer to becoming reality.

Residents of a small Somerset village could get up to 40 new homes as a Christmas present as a planning inquiry gets under way.

Frome residents will find out in a matter of days whether alternative plans to redevelop a key area of the town centre will finally be approved.

Frome residents face a longer wait to see if a popular alternative vision for the Saxonvale regeneration site will be approved by council planners.

and a spate of start-ups This piece about the spin-off firms in the wake of the Aecom takeover of DL is republished as it appeared in 2013 with the subheading Building profiles the many new start-ups launched by former Davis Langdon partners When Building broke the news this month that six former partners of Davis Langdon were setting up a consultant of their own - to be called Alinea - regular readers may have had a feeling of deja vu. Hadn’t we been here before? Yes, indeed, at least 15 ti...

Thrills and gut-spills: why have Vikings taken over pop culture? James McMahon The first Viking raid on what we now know as the UK is said to have been in June AD793, when three longships arrived at Lindisfarne Priory in Northumberland. Believing the ships to be those of Norse traders, the priory’s reeve, the brilliantly named Beaduherd, approached the sailors. He was instantly cut down, then everyone on the island was murdered. But enough of that. The Masked Singer is on. Who...