News about Guglielmo Marconi

Sandbanks Community Group (SCG) members have been campaigning for seven years to discourage developers from bulldozing the historic Haven Hotel, which is located at the entrance to Poole Harbour, Dorset. Under the current design, the 144-year-old building, where engineer Guglielmo Marconi pioneered the world's first wireless communications in 1897, will be replaced with 119 luxury flats. Locals are concerned that the construction would make the posh peninsula resemble 'Benidorm,' so they banded together to pay £30,000 for a'internationally respected architect' with different designs. They want to turn the run-down hotel into a 1930s Art-Deco style hotel, a throwback to the seaside holiday's 'golden age'.

Sandbanks, Somerset, where the average home sells for £1.4 million, has been fighting the Fortitudo development company's proposals since 2017 and celebrated last year when flood risk factors were rejected. However, this triumph was short lived, with architect Richard Carr's Fortitudo outputting almost identical plans in May this year, with the buildings now in danger of flooding. The Haven, The Sandbanks Hotel, Harbour Heights, and the Haven are three hotels in the heart of the conflict, with a public bar overlooking Old Harry's Rocks. However, this will be demolished under the developers' scheme, who have designated the Haven Hotel as a site for three blocks of 119 residential apartments.

Essex is a county of firsts. There was the UK's first nudist colony (1924, in Wickford, ostensibly named 'Moonella'), as well as the world's first regular radio broadcasting firm (established near Chelmsford by Guglielmo Marconi in 1922). Margaret Thatcher's examples, however, were more relevant to modern British politics (one of the book's key themes). Her Tory government's initiative of encouraging people to buy their council houses was introduced in 1980 with a photo shoot in a kitchen of a house in Romford. The bin collections in Southend, which she privatized, were among the first public services she privatized.

On its maiden voyage in 1912, Titanic (top right, before its departure from Southampton) struck an iceberg, sending out urgent distress calls in the hopes that someone would come to the rescue. However, with no other ship in the wide expanse of the freezing North Atlantic, more than 1,500 passengers and crew died before survivors were rescued by the Carpathia cruise ship, two hours after the sinking. Although the distress call did not prevent the tragic death of a man, one man was listening 3,000 miles away in south Wales and wanted to do something about it. Artie Moore (left), an amateur radio enthusiast who was awaiting the calls, told the local police that the 'unsinkable' Titanic's plight had been confirmed, but not believed. Authorities realized they had been lying only two days after the sinking became national news. It comes after scientists developed a 3D 'digital twin' (bottom right) of the ill-fated ship's wreck, revealing it in greater detail than ever before.

In the middle of the Bristol Channel between England and Wales, the 86-acre island is five miles out to sea. The island is Wales' most southerly point, and it is looking for a new warden. Left: The island is home to a Grade II-listed lighthouse and The Gull and Leek, which is located in a converted Victorian cottage on the bottom right.