Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
The entrepreneur aiming to transform a crumbling 200-year-old hall
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA Rochdale-born entrepreneur who moved to America almost 20 years ago has returned to his hometown to take on the renovation of a 200-year-old building where he had his wedding reception.
Mike Thakur, founder of a flexible office space company in Texas, describes himself as “an adventurous entrepreneur with a passion for wild home renovations”.
He recently completed the overhaul of a $1.5 million mansion in Tennessee, which had been severely damaged by a fire in 2022 – all documented on his YouTube channel.
But that property was built in 1997. The building Thakur has now turned his sights on - which he has sold the Tennessee mansion in order to fund - predates it by some 200 years. READ MORE: Salford Lads Club gets £100,000 boost from town hall in fight for survival Crimble Hall, just outside of Bamford in Rochdale, was built in 1810 by industrialist John Fenton (whose son, also named John, would go on to be Rochdale’s first MP in 1832).
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