The Food and Drink Museum will open in its first permanent home – a mini-museum in Brooklyn — in October. The plan is to move into a bigger, final home by 2019. Above, an artist’s rendering shows one potential exhibit – on ready-to-eat cereal — in MOFAD’s final space. In the foreground is an extruder, a giant machine used to cook and shape cereal. Continue reading
BY PEGGY REVELL ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2015.
John Bulmer, with the city’s land and properties department, and Jane Zwicker, sales and marketing, have been involved in the planning process for a new park in Southlands that opens later this fall.–NEWS PHOTO EMMA BENNETT
With a butterfly garden, large hill and pond drawing water from the St. Mary’s Irrigation district, there’s a lot of new features at a soon-to-be opened park in Southlands.
“They city doesn’t have anything much like this anywhere,” said John Bulmer with the land and properties department of the park south of Wal-Mart.
“We’re very proud of this. We think it’s going to be a great space for the neighbourhood,” said Jane Zwicker, city sales and marketing officer.
The most obvious feature is the hill in the centre, dubbed Celebration Hill.
“Typically, our parks we made were flat,” said Bulmer. But the idea of having a large hill came from seeing how much young children enjoy playing on hills and bumps. It was also a cost-saver. “Waste” dirt from nearby construction was used to build it, instead of having to pay to truck it all away. Continue reading
Gianluca Cugnetto
THE NEW manager of Hotel du Vin has promised to make it the number one in Brighton.
Gianluca Cugnetto, who describes himself as a food and drink guru, has worked at some of the most prestigious luxury hotels and bars around the world.
After taking over the management of the hotel two months ago Mr Cugnetto has promised to bring the same high-end customer service to the Brighton boutique hotel.
Hundreds of people have been taking part in the Great British Beach Clean along our coastline. It’s to tackle the rising tide of litter.
Last year volunteers collected nearly 2,500 pieces of litter for every kilometre of South East coastline.
Published at 10:17, Monday, 28 September 2015
The historic Maryport lighthouse could soon shine out again.
A bid has been made for a grant from the Coastal Revival Fund to repair the metalwork. And the light would be reconnected as part of the renovation project.
But it will only be able to shine onto land. It would have to be screened from projecting out to sea to avoid confusing sea craft, according to town centre area manager Toni Magean.
He says: “It is one of the earliest examples of cast-iron lighthouses in the UK and is Grade 2 listed and deemed to be at-risk. Continue reading
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