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Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain – podcast

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 24 January

Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder? By Mark Blacklock. Read by Joe Layton

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Clouds part for blessing of York Minister’s 184 solar panels

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 January

Panels installed on south quire roof expected to meet a third of church’s electricity needs

“And God said, Let there be light” – and on a witheringly cold winter morning there was light, as the Dean of York carried out a rooftop blessing for the minster’s 184 new solar panels.

The sky was blue and the sun shone when the Very Rev Dominic Barrington led the blessing ceremony as the panels were switched on for the first time. “They were absolutely gleaming,” said one witness.

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Michelin-starred chef pleads with thieves to return £25,000 worth of stolen pies

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 December

Tommy Banks urges those who stole van packed with 2,500 pies to ‘do the right thing’ so food can go to people in need

A Michelin-starred chef has appealed to thieves who stole his van which had 2,500 pies inside to “do the right thing” and give them to people in need.

Tommy Banks, who owns two restaurants and a pub in North Yorkshire, announced on Instagram that his van carrying £25,000 worth of stock had been taken. The refrigerated vehicle was due to make a delivery to the chef’s pop-up pie stall at York Christmas Market, but staff found it had disappeared from Barker business park in Melmerby, near Ripon, on Monday morning.