Two councils have locked horns over the ownership of a toilet block at a town hall. Newcastle Borough Council wants to formalise the ownership arrangements of the Midlands town hall building.
A set of public toilets that shut more than 20 years ago are being turned into flats. Architect Laura Clark is converting the conveniences in south London into a smart basement apartment. After the work is finished she will move in.
A district council spokesman defended closing a toilet block in the early evening when a town centre festival was in full swing.
Members of a Community Council were told toilet vandals needed to be caught in the act for them to be prosecuted.
Going under the hammer are a 1960s school building, a former branch of Lloyds TSB with an English Heritage preservation order, a former British Waterways museum and lock keepers’ cottage… and an old public convenience.
A petition containing a total of 1,400 signatures has been collected in a fight to save a toilet block. It is due to be closed in favour of a labour and money saving ‘superloo’ by Nottingham City Council.
A ‘nettie’ – an old toilet to you and me – has been badly-damaged in an act of vandalism at the Locomotion National Railway Museum in county Durham. The outdoor lavatory had its roof wrecked and an old mangle beside it pushed over.
Drivers have been engaged in a toilet row in a bus garage. The drivers say their only toilet in Brent Cross garage is being repeatedly closed due to graffiti and flooding.
A midlands town has scooped a top award for its toilets.
Children had to be evacuated from a school last Friday when someone set light to a toilet roll. The incident happened in the boys’ toilets on the ground floor of the school in West Sussex.