Newport's Grade II listed Civic Centre building is set to undergo repairs after an application was granted with conditions by the council.

Sand is the most abundant ingredient in the mix. The powdered cement and lime are the glue that holds the sand together and allows the mortar to bond to each brick (or concrete block, stone or other ...

CNBC Select will update as changes are made public. Brick-and-mortar banks provide you with something that online banks cannot: in-person access and face-to-face customer service. Your first-ever ...

Over time, the mortar joints between bricks in a wall, also known as pointing, will fail. Fixing this failure is called repointing, or in some regions tuckpointing. Your job, or that of the ...

Over time, the mortar joints between bricks in a wall, also known as pointing, will fail. Fixing this failure is called repointing, or in some regions tuckpointing. Your job, or that of the workman ...

You may not know this, but I received a Bachelor of Science degree in geology many moons ago. I was fascinated by the topic, and it helped me build houses and buildings that would not fail.

A video of a white man pointing a gun at a Black woman, sometimes directly at her head, started because of a dispute at a gas pump. The video shows a man near a 2015 Ram pickup with a flatbed ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

As an LA-raised girl now living in New York City, it’s been heartbreaking to watch neighborhoods I frequented as a teenager and young adult disappear. Simply gone. I feel like I spend each day ...

A “fairytale” picnic cottage enjoyed by Queen Victoria on her visits to Balmoral has been saved from ruin by a conservation charity. Built around 1850, the cottage had fallen into disrepair but has ...

On a recent sunny day, the Rev. Paul Jarvis gave a less-than-sunny assessment of the Guardian Angels Catholic Church exterior. In some areas, the brickwork of the late-1800s church campus is ...