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Nick Candy and Holly Valance are selling their LA mansion for a cool $85 million

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Billionaire property tycoon Nick Candy and his wife Holly Valance have put their ten-bedroom Los Angeles home on the market for a cool $85 million. The British businessman, best known for his luxury development projects and married to Australian singer actress Holly Valance, has reportedly owned his home in the US since 2013. The 21,000 square foot property called ‘The Reserve’ was built on two acres and was built in 1959. The property has been heavily modified over the last two decades. Real estate agents describe it as ‘one of the most historic estates in Los Angeles’ and one of the city’s finest examples of 1950s modernist architecture. Billionaire property tycoon Nick Candy has put his ten bedroom Los Angeles home on the market for a cool $85 million The 21,000 square foot property called ‘The Reserve’ was built on two acres and was built in 1959. The property has been heavily modified over the last two decades. The property comprises a main house with five bedroo

Picnic at the historic Hanging Rock mansion is still scary

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Martindale Hall in Montaro, in the Clare Valley, South Australia, played the school in the 1975 Australian classic, Picnic at Hanging Rock. Photo: Isaac Forman/SATC It was 2011 and a visitor to historic Martindale Hall in Montaro, in the Clare Valley, South Australia, was having trouble keeping an eye on his young son who kept disappearing into a room on the first floor. Finally he coaxed her out but he was annoyed at having to leave his friend. “What friend?” And this is where the story – easily printed and placed over the fireplace in the room in question – gives visitors goosebumps. Helen Morse in the 1975 film. The boy insisted that he had been playing with a girl with long curly hair who “looked like an angel”. No such child was found. But a boy with long hair – just like fashion – spent a lot of time in the room more than 116 years ago. Valentine Mortlock, one of the six children of shepherd and politician William Tennant Mortlock and his wife, Rosye Tenna