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Crews smashed their way into the building after being alerted to the incident by a council gritting manager who saw the glow of flames inside the Sunnyhills Road building.

Now Breeze House managing director Andrew Peck has thanked the quick-thinking worker who helped to save the building from more serious damage.

Mr Peck, who founded the business with brother Chris, said: "I would love to meet the council worker who spotted the fire so I can thank him personally.

"He has made a huge difference because if the fire had gone on for another 30 minutes before the call was made then it would have caused much more damage.

"At that time of the morning it would have been quiet so it is fortunate he saw the fire."

Breeze House was founded 18 years ago and currently has 40 employees. It makes luxury garden buildings including wooden gazebos and regularly exhibits at Chelsea Flower Show.

Mr Peck added: "I had no idea how big the fire was when I got the call at 5am from my brother.

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High winds tear down TV aerials, pull slates from roofs and cause derelict building to collapse

- January 15, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

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High winds have ripped through Greater Manchester overnight, closing a road and tearing down TV aerials, tiles and bricks.

A main route through Middleton town centre was shut late on Wednesday after the strong gusts partially-collapsed a building.

Market Place remained shut on Thursday morning while the structure, the former Baby World store across from Popeyes Takeaway, was assessed by council engineers.

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service were also called.

No one was hurt during the incident but the area was deemed too unstable for pedestrians and cars to pass, police confirmed.

Firefighters were also called to two streets in Bury after TV aerials were pulled from two homes by the winds.

Crews were scrambled to Manchester Road in the town at 9pm after a 10ft mast was blown off and a satellite dish came loose.

Two hours later, shortly after 11pm, they also attended Booth Street where another aerial had come down.

The fire teams used ladders and lights to reach the damaged buildings and secure them.

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Feng Shui with Papa Chak – Part 1/4 – Tikoy – Video

- January 15, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

Feng Shui with Papa Chak - Part 1/4 - Tikoy
Papa Chak is a 32nd degree black belter in Feng Shui. He gives advise to lucky callers. In this episode, learn what the correct (and lucky) way of eating tikoy (Chinese new year #39;s cake)

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Case retains faith in Deep Trouble

- January 15, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

Updated: Thursday, 15 Jan 2015 10:36 | Comments Deep Trouble (centre in yellow in black) has not won yet over fences

Ben Case has not lost faith in Punchestown Festival winner Deep Trouble despite him failing to win in his first three outings over fences.

Third to the useful Three Kingdoms on his chasing debut, he was then pulled up behind Coneygree before shaping much better at Kempton over Christmas when he would have been placed in the Wayward Lad Chase won by Vibrato Valtat but for falling at the last.

He will head to Huntingdon next month before Case decides on a Cheltenham target.

"He ran very well first time at Leicester behind Three Kingdoms but it turned into a sprint and then I ran him back too quick at Newbury, where he was keen on dead ground so I put a line through that," said Case.

"He showed what he was capable of at Kempton and he still had a bit left when he fell. He would have been second at least I think. "After that fall he was a bit stiff and sore so we gave him a little break.

"He'll go to Huntingdon in mid-February and after that we'll decide on the Arkle or the Grand Annual.

"We know he goes on better ground so he'll have plenty of options in the spring."

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Archbishop Chaput celebrates Mass behind bars

- January 15, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

As church settings go, it was grim - high cinder block walls, surrounded by tall fences and coils of razor wire.

No light shone through stained-glass images of Christ. And no choir boys appeared in white, their places assumed by unsmiling officers in black shirts who kept watch on a congregation arrayed in a prison gym.

Into that environ stepped the archbishop of Philadelphia, who on Thursday offered a message of faith, hope and charity to inmates at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. The hour-long mass drew about 80 inmates, all wearing standard sky-blue shirts and navy pants, the only adornments the tattoos on their arms and necks.

"It's a special event," one inmate enthused.

"It's a show," another griped.

Archbishop Charles Chaput came as part of the Archdiocese's Prison Ministry Program, which carries out the biblical mandate to visit people in jail. The church maintains a presence in prisons located within its boundaries.

"God loves us," Chaput told the men, who sat before him in plastic chairs. "He loves us each individually, whether we're sinners or not, whether we're in prison or not."

Prison staffers attended the mass too, stopping Chaput afterward to pose for pictures. Inmates shook his hand, seeking a word of comfort from the leader of their faith.

Almost all the prisoners there had "CATH" stamped on their identification wristbands.

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$5M settlement in fire that killed 3 sisters, grandparents

- January 15, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

A contractor who accidentally caused a fire at a Connecticut home that killed three girls and two of their grandparents on Christmas 2011 has agreed to settle part of a wrongful-death lawsuit by paying the children's father $5 million.

Court records obtained by The Associated Press show that the contractor, Michael Borcina, and his company settled Matthew Badger's lawsuit in Hartford Superior Court on Dec. 10. Badger's lawyer confirmed the settlement amount Tuesday.

The fire in Stamford killed 7-year-old twins Grace and Sarah Badger, 9-year-old Lily Badger and their maternal grandparents, Lomer and Pauline Johnson. The girls' mother, Madonna Badger, and Borcina were dating at the time and escaped the fire.

Authorities said the fire began after Borcina left a bag of fireplace ashes in a bin in a mudroom in the house. Borcina, who was renovating the $1.7 million Victorian home, was accused in the lawsuit of contributing with other defendants to make the house a "firetrap," including failing to install a smoke detection system during the construction.

A lawyer for Borcina didn't return a message Tuesday seeking comment. A phone listing for Borcina could not be found. Matthew Badger and Madonna Badger did not return messages seeking comment.

Richard Emery, a New York lawyer representing Matthew Badger, said the $5 million settlement is the first in the lawsuit, which remains pending against several other defendants.

"It is nowhere near reflective of the ultimate value of this case: three little girls' lives," Emery said. "No money could compensate for that."

Matthew Badger filed the lawsuit in July 2012 against Borcina, his company Tiberias Construction of New York City, the city of Stamford and others. Claims against the city and other defendants remain unresolved.

"The girls died before they could escape the home, which had become a firetrap as a result of months of substandard construction leading up to the fire," according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit also says city officials knew or should have known that Borcina served as the home's general contractor but didn't have a state home improvement contractor's license. Stamford officials previously denied any wrongdoing in connection with the fire. The city's corporation counsel, Kathryn Emmett, declined to comment Tuesday.

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Senior center construction work comes in under budget

- January 15, 2015 by Mr HomeBuilder

At its first meeting of 2015, held on Thursday, January 8, the Village Board of Trustees approved nine supplemental work orders for the new senior center project on Golf Club Lane. As a result the original contract price for the project dropped from $450,000 to $439,300. Deputy Mayor Episcopia examined the details.

"What we received from Recreation was a list of costs, both positive and negative. We had deductions and savings with the building of the basement. When you take a look at the original contract and spreadsheet we received from deBruin Engineering, there's $275,000 for the building foundation. When someone takes a look at that, you begin to wonder why it was that much. Was it a lot of overhead, or did it have to do with the gravel, the moving, and roads?" he asked.

Kevin Ocker, chairman of the board of commissioners of Garden City Parks and Recreation, explained that the $275,000 was the price of the bid for the installation of the building's foundation for the contractor. Afterward the project was "value-engineered" to reduce the scope of work for the foundation.

"The total job awarded to the contractor was $450,000. When we backed out the credits or savings we achieved for the foundation, and with all of the small change orders in front of the board this evening, the net effect is that the contract will come in about $19,100 under budget. Most of the items have had to be done already with construction going on," Ocker said.

The credits for revising the original foundation resulted in a supplemental work order for a credit of $60,000, with less excavation, backfilling, shoring, underpinning and concrete work needed.

There was also a credit of $7,600 for concrete and footings of the building's attached porches, which were removed when the building was moved from its former place as the model house for DoubleDay Court Condominiums.

The senior center's drains and drywall were completed on Wednesday, January 7. Two drywells for the stairwell to the senior center's basement is the next step, as outlined by a $1300 supplemental work order.

In addition, with the excavation of the building's foundation an abandoned well was found. To fill the well the contractor needed to use 186 yards of pea gravel and cap it with concrete, for a cost of $8,400. Ocker told the board that work will be charged to the water enterprise fund.

The other supplemental work orders covered the following: $3,500 for dampproofing foundation walls; $1,700 for the installation of columns; $1,200 for the installation of foundation air vents; and

The main outlier with the senior center is a new roof, for which the cost has not been agreed to with deBruin Engineering. The roof was not included as part of the original contract, and Ocker says his department's subcommittee will discuss the options for a renovated roof or a new roof.

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