Low Carbon Lifestyle (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
I got up as Gill was taking our youngest to school, and got ready to cycle out to Sand Hutton, North East of York, where there is a big complex of buildings which used to be called the Central Science Laboratory, and is now 'FERA', the Food and Environment Research Agency, part of DEFRA, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. I got a phone call just before i was going to leave, from...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
When Dr Christine Gill last month successfully challenged her mother’s will, which had bequeathed the £2 million family farm in North Yorkshire to the RSPCA, it was just the latest in an increasingly long line of disputes over wills to have been picked over by the media.
Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
A university lecturer has won a three-year legal battle to inherit her parents’ £2 million farm which they had bequeathed to the RSPCA. By Paul Stokes Published: 6:42PM BST 09 Oct 2009 Christine Gill, 59, claimed that her late father coerced her mother into making a will which cut her out and left everything to the animal charity. She described yesterday’s ruling as a "great...
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Below is a summary of an interesting court battle over a family farm inheritance in North Yorkshire: Dr. Christine Gill expected to inherit the family farm. When Gill's mother died, her mother's will left the farm to the RSPCA, an...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
A woman who contested her parents' will after they left their £2.3m estate in North Yorkshire to the RSPCA today won her battle to inherit their farm. The RSPCA said it would appeal. Christine Gill, 58, a university lecturer from Northallerton, started a legal action in July to challenge the will, which she claimed her father had forced her mother into making. Gill, an only child, had helped...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Christine Gill, from North Yorkshire, an only child who contested her parents' will after they left their £2m estate to the RSPCA, has won her legal challenge.
So anyway, (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
The last production I saw by the company GNOP was a bit of a disaster, and you may recall that, to my surprise, I was informed by the playwright that its failings were all my fault and as an audience member I should enjoy it or shut up, or something. Still, I'm not one to stay away from the scene of the crime, and director Adam Spreadbury-Maher has done work I've liked before so no reason to condemn...
World of Science (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
England - The largest known cave in Britain, Gaping Gill in North Yorkshire, was opened to the public, to the delight of caving enthusiasts. The interior of this cave is amazing. It is so immense that the cathedral of York (the largest Gothic building in Northern Europe, ed) could hold a whole. The master bedroom is 145 meters long, 25 meters wide and 35 meters from floor to vaulted ceiling. The cave...
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