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Property: Visual Feast of Black and White

Within the country's top two percent of protected buildings, Haslington Hall near Crewe is a weighty arrival in the north Midland marketplace. Listed Grade1 and in the illustrious company of fewer than 10,000 buildings across England, this exceptional house dates from the late 15th century.

Property: For What It's Worth ; Marsya Lennox Takes Buyers with Between Pounds 600,000 and Pounds 700,000 Spending Power On a Midland Tour

Rivermead Farm Offers around pounds 625,000 are invited for Rivermead Farm at Crudginton near Wellington in Shropshire, a four bedroom house in 3.44 acres with fishing on the River Strine.

Residential Property: Local Stone and Wealth of Talent

The best Birmingham architects of the early 20th century also made their mark further afield. C E Bateman made a name for himself in the city's best suburbs including Edgbaston and Four Oaks, busy 100 years ago designing impressive large homes for wealthy Midlanders.

Residential Property: Canalside Apartment

A nearly-new apartment in central Stratford-upon-Avon should tick all the boxes for a typical 'two home' downsizer, believe the selling agents. One of 15 apartments at Oliver's Lock, completed only three years ago by Temple Oak Ltd, is newly on the market with Knight Frank, priced at pounds 350,000.

Residential Property: Hallmark of an Exciting Opportunity

Freehold properties start at pounds 55,000 at a listed building in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter - a price level not seen for years in the city marketplace. There are only four on offer and they are unmodernised - but there is full planning permission in place to convert them as live/ work units.

Residential Property: Key to Unlock Huge Potential

Building plots rarely come with raw material as good - or as important - as the house already established at 14, Westbourne Gardens in Edgbaston. The single storey property that has stood here for 40 years was designed by John Madin of the J H D Madin partnership, an influential name of this boom era for Birmingham.

Residential Property: Successful Sales Pitch

Birmingham's best penthouses are hitting the spot with high- spending top footballers. The recently-launched specialist lettings agency, FleetMilne Ltd, has revealed that it has placed 10 new players joining premiership teams in some of the city's most lavish penthouse apartments.

Residential Property: Range of New Homes Will Sell Like Hot Cakes

A bakers dozen of residential treats are being cooked up close to Leamington Spa centre - on a site with famous cake-making connections. Elisabeth Court by Michael Richard Homes will provide a choice of apartments and houses, named for a previous occupant, the well- known Elisabeth the Chef chain.

Perspective: The West Midlands Holds the Keys to No Ten

It's tempting to imagine movers and shakers in the bars of Westminster care little about life beyond the M25. But the politicians, spin-doctors and opinion poll gurus have their sights set firmly on the West Midlands.

Perspective: Who Are the Real Losers? ; Steve Curtis Looks at What the World at Large Tends to Judge As Success or Failure

Every summer, the latest batch of O and A level results are revealed to the world. All across the country kids are asked to stare at a slip of paper and read a verdict on their entire lives. And if you think it's all a bit unfair spare a thought for old Mark Thatcher, who is, as I write these words facing years in an African jail, the country to be determined at a later date.

Review: Season to Be Merry ; Season's Greetings Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Alan Ayckbourn likes to strike a lightly ironic note with the cliches he selects for titles: otherwise In the Bleak Midwinter might be a more apt description of this comedy of seasonal family disaster. Wives Belinda and Pattie are neglected by husbands Neville and Eddie, compulsive tinkerers with gadgets who never quite fancy a family walk but can always raise the energy to get down to the pub.

Review: Intoxicating Ravel ; Cbso Royal Concert Symphony Hall

Ravel's La Valse, music telling of ancient regimes swirling into the giddying black hole of their own decadence, is hardly the most tactful dish to set before a king. Or rather, the Queen's Consort, with Prince Philip heading Wednesday's audience for the Royal Concert in aid of the Musicians' Benevolent Fund, given this year by the CBSO in their home base and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

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