Daily Mail

Save our cobbles! Anger at council's health and safety plan to rip up stones in Medieval market town and replace them with block paving

A historic Yorkshire marketplace will have its cobbles ripped up and replaced with modern block paving for health and safety reasons. East Riding council said the traditional stones in Beverley's ...
Daily Mail

Locals' fury as council spends £1.25million on town regeneration project by replacing cobbles... with more cobbles and seating with 'not enough spaces'

Locals are furious after a council spent £1.25million on a town regeneration project that involved replacing 'cobbles with cobbles'. The residents of Sandwich in Kent say officials blew an unnecessary ...
The Daily Telegraph

Historic Somerset cobbles replaced with paving slabs as locals kept tripping

A council has been accused of "vandalising" one of Britain's most perfectly-preserved medieval villages after the iconic cobbled streets were ripped up and replaced - with modern paving stones. The ...
The New York Times

COBBLES FOR PAVING.

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The Harvard Crimson

Burying the Cobbles

Paving machines and squads of construction workers drew within a block of Harvard Square yesterday as work continued on operation "rotary." Stimulated by efferts to solve the congestion problem at the ...
The Press

Petition launched over King’s Square cobbles

A DISABLED woman from York has launched a petition over the decision to repave part of a historic city-centre square. City of York Council is carrying out a £490,000 revamp of King’s Square which it ...
Oxford Mail

Cobbles put a dampener on library

OXFORD University is facing its own Cornmarket fiasco after a £500,000 project to repair Radcliffe Square ran into trouble. Workmen have had to return to dig up cobblestones, just five months after ...