Manchester United star Angel Di Maria is looking to "transfer" from home to away after his mansion went on sale for an eye-watering 4.1m.

The luxury home has gone on the market within a month of a terrifying raid on the property while he was inside with his family.

Would-be thieves fled empty-handed after triggering an alarm system when they tried in vain to smash patio doors while the Argentinian international was reportedly watching TV with wife, Jorgelina, and their children.

According to the Manchester Evening News, the family moved into a luxury hotel with round-the-clock security in the aftermath of the crime, but now look set to move away for good.

The advert states: "Magnificent mansion set in well-manicured grounds in the heart of Prestbury on a private road.

"Indoor swimming pool with glass panels into the sitting room and hallway which truly envelopes the pool into the heart of the house."

The home also boasts a plush kitchen and family room, with French doors leading to a huge garden.

There is also a sitting room with a drop-down screen, a kids TV room, a play room, an office, a gym, changing room, an indoor pool and jacuzzi and a two-bedroom apartment over the garage.

The fully-furnished home is described as 'very high-spec and high-tech'.

The attempted break was not the only controversy Di Maria, who signed from Real Madrid for 60m in the summer, faced at the home.

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United star Angel Di Maria looks set for a move away after the Prestbury mansion where he lives went up for sale for a staggering 4.1m.

The home is up for grabs just a month after the 26-year-old suffered a terrifying raid while inside with his family.

The Argentinian international was reportedly having dinner with his wife, Jorgelina, and children as crooks tried in vain to smash through his patio doors.

The three would-be thieves then fled empty-handed after triggering an alarm system.

Di Maria and his family moved into a luxury hotel after the incident with round-the-clock security keeping them safe.

They now look set to move away for good, with the luxury mansion up for sale.

The advert on Rightmove states: Magnificent mansion set in well-manicured grounds in the heart of Prestbury on a private road.

Indoor swimming pool with glass panels into the sitting room and hallway which truly envelopes the pool into the heart of the house.

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The home also boasts a plush kitchen and family room, with French doors leading to a huge garden.

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Photo by Gustavo Castillo [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsAn undercover sting conductedby state, Orange County and Costa Mesa agencies resulted in the arrests of 14 contractors allegedly operating without a license, authorities said Wednesday.

The sting was conducted last week involving the Contractors State License Board, Orange County District Attorneys Office and Costa Mesa Building Division.

Undercover investigators bid on home improvement projects at a Costa Mesa residence. The projects were expected to cost more than $500 each. They included painting, building concrete driveways and walkways, flooring and tile work.

Contractors must have licenses if they bid more than $500 on a project.

Twelve of the 14 contractors did not disclose their unlicensed status, and two may face an additional charge of illegally using another contractors license, authorities said.

Not only do illegal contractors take opportunities away from legitimate business owners, they fundamentally deceive our residents and property owner, said Costa Mesa CEO Tom Hatch.

Building permits in Costa Mesa have increased 21 percent over the last three years, and there has been an influx of unlicensed contractors. The result has been an increase in complaints from residents who had contractors who did shoddy work or didnt finish their work, Hatch said.

Anyone planning on hiring a contractor should contract the Costa Mesa Building Division at (714) 754-5273 to see if contractors have city licenses.

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TREASURE ISLAND --

A bridge painting accident in Treasure Island turned the pristine blue waters a cloudy white color Monday.

A resident took some pictures to show how much water was affected.

It just kept growing. It engulfed this whole side of houses and docks and it was probably about 30-feet out, said resident Donna Babcock.

Treasure Island City Manager Reid Silverboard said the bridge painters made a mistake but stopped short of calling it a spill.

Silverboard said the cloudy water was caused by bridge painters who cleaned out their buckets near a storm drain. He said as soon as they found about it they sent a tanker truck out to suck up the paint stained water.

The city also self-reported to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and FWC is also investigating the incident.

Babcock said she's upset that paint got into Boca Ciega Bay.

Paint doesnt belong in the water and Im sure the marine life probably agrees, she said.

There's no sign of the paint in the water now. Silverboard said the good news is the paint is not toxic.

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) --

But spring really is coming, and with it, the rush to have that emerald green lawn.

Dr. Diane Lewis, an avid gardener and kidney specialist who says she "really knows water," wants us to think before we break out the weedkillers, fertilizers, and pesticides.

Since the enactment of the Clean Water Act, industrial pollution of the nation's waterways and drinking water has dropped dramatically.

Now, the big danger comes at home.

She points to a U.S Fish & Wildlife Service report, which shows that homeowners are the biggest danger to the nation's drinking water, that they are now using 10 times more harmful chemicals than farmers.

"Farmers know how to use them in the right proportions," says Dr. Lewis, whereas homeowners think more is better when it comes to weed and pest control.

A 2013 study from the U.S. Geological Survey found lawn and garden chemicals in every stream, river, and lake, and in about half of our well water.

She says, "We're at a tipping point with these dangerous chemicals."

"They don't just disappear," she added.

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JEFFERSONVILLE, IN (WAVE) - A Louisville Metro police officer arrested in southern Indiana is facing domestic battery charges involving his wife.

A Clark County Sheriff's Office arrest report says an accident with injuries was reported at 11:53 p.m. Feb. 1 on County Road 403 near Ray's Lawn and Garden. While heading to scene the officer was told two people were fighting in the parking lot of the business.

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Once at the scene, the officer found a man on top of Jonathan Osborne, 34, of Louisville, in an apparent attempt to hold him down. The man told police he intervened after Osborne assaulted Mrs. Osborne.

The report says Osborne appeared "very intoxicated" and smelled strongly of alcohol. He was placed in handcuffs before being checked by EMS for injuries.

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The witness said his vehicle was behind the car containing Osborne and his wife heading west on County Road 403 when the Osborne's car made a sharp right turn and hit a parked tractor which struck the building.

When the witness and his passenger went to check for anyone injured, Osborne cursed at them. The report says Osborne then walked over to his own wife and punched her in the face before kicking her in the head after she was down on the ground. The witness said he got involved after Osborne started to choking Mrs. Osborne.

Osborne's wife told police the couple had left a Super Bowl party and she was driving the car. During the drive home, she said Osborne punched her in the face causing her to serve the car hitting the tractor.

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Need your driveway plowed? Dont we all after the recent snow. Luckily, now theres an app for that.

Cuttly is a multiplatform smartphone app created by Fort Wayne native and resident Clinton Beck. Cuttly, available for both Android and Apple products, provides people with snow plowing or lawn mowing services with the simple click of a button, thanks to a network of existing partner businesses that alerts the nearest service provider using GPS tracking software.

Beck, who built the company with his brothers and close group of friends, began researching the business model after his first experience using Uber on a business trip a few years ago. Uber, an app-based GPS transportation network and taxi company, allows people to hail a taxi close by within minutes.

Beck loved the idea and the experience. Then he wondered, how could he develop something that would be useful to busy people in the suburbs or a town like Fort Wayne?

Serendipitously, Becks lawn was becoming a wreck while he was away on business, and he had trouble finding someone to help mow it quickly and without a summerlong contract. Thats when the idea hit him. He would develop an app to quickly, affordably and efficiently partner customers with service professionals in the area.

After downloading the app, users can request service by signing in and creating a profile, then submitting the type of service and the address. Then, through a secure website, customers will pay for the service directly using a credit or debit card.

Once the order is placed, the app will be notified that Cuttly Pro, the local service provider, has accepted the order. It will also send notifications when the worker has arrived at the location, when the work has started and when the work is finished.

The app offers photo and review features. When the job is completed, the service provider will send the customer a photo of the finished product. Then the user is able to write a review, good or bad, of the service and the business.

Beck said this allows for Cuttly to keep an eye on the service professionals and make sure they do quality work by holding them accountable to the customer.

When its done, you can verify the jobs been done and everything looks good. You can also rate your provider at the end, Beck said. So we not only make sure our professionals are good, but we also allow our customers an opportunity to rate them as well. We just want to make sure we continue to have the best providers out there.

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A UBC graduate who grew up in Edmonton has come up with Canadian climate-inspired way to solve his hometowns wintry commuter woes.

Matt Gibbs, a landscape architect, has designed a freezeway, an artificial ice thoroughfare, that he said would let Edmontonians leave their cars at home and skate their way to work.

Gibbs proposal involves converting a former railway right-of-way that stretches into Edmontons downtown corridor from two sides. The 11-kilometre route, he said, would allow people to skate -- or winter-cycle -- to work, school, even an Oilers game.

Speaking on CTVs News Channel on Tuesday, Gibbs pointed out that the City of Edmonton prepared a winter strategy looking at how its residents can better embrace winter. After all, Edmontons climate is such that its population resides in below freezing temperatures for five months of the year.

Does being Canadian mean we fly to Mexico every winter? said Gibb, a landscape architect. I think we can create better ways to enhance the livability and create more physically and socially active communities by creating more climate adaptive solutions in our cities.

Not only would it create a commuter corridor, but the freezeway would be a one-of-kind experience that could potentially attract out-of-town visitors, similar to Ottawas Rideau Canal, Gibbs said.

That would, in turn, inject tourist dollars into Edmontons economy.

For those who dont skate, the frozen trail would also be accompanied by a pedestrian trail. And it would be available for year-round use, too. The freezeway would function as a bike lane in the summer.

In my route, Ive created a pedestrian route alongside the multi-use trail that in the summer would be a bike lane and in the winter turn into this frozen skating trail.

The trail would allow for winter cycling on the promenade, but also use rubberized matting.

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Are you one of those highly visual people who can look at a design sketch and know what the space could look and feel like in real life? Or, are you like most of us, who can study a drawing and think it looks nice, but we can't virtually walk ourselves through it to know if it would work for us?

We wonder: Is there really enough room under the pavilion for a complete outdoor kitchen and a large patio table? Will those trees cast shade on my meditation garden? How dramatic would that fire pit look at night?

Fortunately for those of us who can't tell if a squiggle on a conceptual plan is a screen or a stream, we can look at real landscapes -- and their drawings -- during the Yard, Garden & Patio Show, Feb. 27 to March 1, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.

For the show, local landscape pros came up with well-imagined plans based on their experience and knowledge of plants and garden trends that are suitable for the Pacific Northwest. Then, they executed their ideas and will stand by their creations. They will explain their choices and answer your questions about garden design challenges, from elevation and pathways, to creating a greater sense of well-being and privacy.

Yards are not as big as in days past, states the team at Design Resource Group (DRG) Landscaping, so there is a greater need for an outdoor family room that houses multiple activities and experiences for parents, children and guests.

Here are highlights from the Showcase Gardens displayed at the Yard, Garden & Patio Show:

Eat, Play, Glove byDennis' 7 Dees Landscaping & Garden Centers is a multifunctional space for family and friends. There is edible landscape alongside the table in the elegant open-air dining area. A playhouse and outdoor living room allows kids and adults to enjoy the outdoors. And a small, low-maintenance garden takes just a little time with a pair of gloves, pruners and a trowel to keep it in shape.

Eat, Drink and Be Merry by Showscapes Landscaping revisits mom's good advice to "go play outside" and creates an interactive outdoor living area for people of all ages to make a meal, play Bocce Ball, pick blueberries and relax around a fire pit.

Modern Simplicity byWestern Interlock is a contemporary garden design with a relaxing spa oasis, hot tub, outdoor kitchen, shower, fireplace and more.

Your Own Northwest Paradise byNorthwest Outdoor Living and Landscapes is a series of outdoor rooms that will keep you from wanting to go back inside the house.

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