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Architect Jack Munroe is an expert in designing homes using all sorts of bricks. But now he has given a whole new meaning to the term 'red brick house' - by making them from animal blood. He mixes the ...

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Who can resist an email headed 'From bowel to trowel'? Not me. As a result, I now know and can pass on, news of the latest product from my home city Leeds, whose ability to turn a penny from anything ...

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The yellow brick road could soon be a way to describe a street where homes have been built using 'wee bricks'. Now, 'wee bricks' might not be a term you're familiar with and it's not the Scottish way ...

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