A client that we had worked with before gave us a call one morning to ask if we could clear quite a large house for him. He was a builder who frequently bought rundown properties to develop and then sell on. He had a good eye for a bargain and for identifying up-and-coming areas so his business had thrived over the years.
Our client in this case was a solicitor from a well-respected local firm in the Halifax area. He asked us to clear the residual contents from a four-bedroomed, detached house in the suburbs. The elderly lady who had been living there had recently died, and, acting as executor, the solicitor had obtained probate and had distributed the house contents and the lady’s personal effects in accordance with her will.
As is quite often the case, our client on this occasion was a solicitor from the Dinnington area acting on behalf of the executor of a will, a man whose elderly mother had recently died. She had been living in the family home of many years when she passed away, and her surviving family were now selling up, with the proceeds to be divided between the beneficiaries of her will.
Our client for this house clearance was a firm of solicitors acting for the owner of the property, a terraced house with three bedrooms on a quiet residential street in Bedlington. The owner had recently inherited the house, which had been let out to tenants as a furnished property for over a decade.
Our client for this house clearance was the owner of a large detached Mock Tudor house in Amble. He and his wife had just moved to smaller property nearby as their children were now grown up and no longer living in the family home.
Our client was the owner of a three-bedroomed flat in Alnwick. The flat was in a modern development, on the third floor. He had taken a job as a computer programmer in California’s Silicon Valley, and he expected to be staying in the USA for several years at least. Consequently, he had decided to get rid of almost all of his possessions and furniture, and to sell the property.
A rare 1917 Charlie Chaplin film, “probably from a house clearance” which was bought for pennies on eBay, could be worth £100,000, reports The Daily Mail.
Waste Watch are currently promoting what they describe as a ‘golden opportunity’: recycling on Liverpool housing estates. They warn that the Government’s pledge that 8 in 10 households should be near recycling facilities by the year 2000 means that local authorities should look towards recycling on housing estates in Liverpool as the future for such a commitment.
Finally the judgement has been issued on the long-running Savini case. President Mancini has given the Court of Justice’s verdict in the landmark case against Anselmo Savini, an Italian who was charged with transporting scrap metal from one company to another without the necessary documentation required under local laws for waste transportation.
A huge amount of debate on the real benefits of recycling followed the publication of an article in The New York Times, on 30th June, entitled: ‘Recycling is Garbage.’ Author, John Tierney, criticised the importance placed on recycling targets at great economic cost. He attacked the recycling of household waste as a pseudo-religious pursuit, claiming that its costs outweigh the benefits.