In this video, a Canon print cartridge is opened up and revealed not to contain the meagre 11.9 ml (0.4 fl oz) of ink it is advertised. The proposed solution is to buy a printer designed to be manually refilled with bottles of ink (such as the featured Epson EcoTank ET-2850), though it has only been tested briefly.

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The new owners of the Crooked House pub in Staffordshire, which was burned down in a fire and subsequently demolished, have angered local people in a series of other redevelopment plans across the Midlands.

Planning documents reveal ATE Farms, which bought the Crooked House from Marston’s brewery in July, and its associated companies have attracted dozens of complaints over plans that include building a solar farm and holiday lodges in the countryside, and redeveloping a village pub.

In one complaint from a local person, Adam Taylor, the husband of Carly Taylor who controls ATE Farms, was accused of having a “wilfully dangerous and chaotic attitude” to managing the countryside.

The resident, who was objecting to ATE Farms’ plans to build a solar farm, office park, farm shop and 33 holiday lodges on a former quarry in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, said the nearby village of Dunton Bassett “was lucky to survive his carelessness”.

Adam Taylor, under another company, AT Contracting and Plant Hire, also received a number of objections when he submitted plans to develop the Sarah Mansfield Country Inn in the village of Willey, Warwickshire.

He reportedly bought the pub in 2020 and “gutted” the interior before the council issued a stop notice. The pub was given “asset of community value” status in 2021 but this was overturned on appeal.

Taylor submitted an application to turn the first floor of the pub into accommodation and to build a property in the car park, while maintaining the bar area inside, and plans were eventually approved despite 20 initial objections from neighbours.

The planning agent Lance Wiggins, acting on behalf of Taylor, said the plans would make the pub “viable”, and if rejected the venue would have to go back on the market.

On Friday, the West Midlands mayor, Andy Street, reiterated his call for the Crooked House to be rebuilt “brick by brick”, saying he remained “laser-focused on making that happen”.

“Whoever has targeted this beloved landmark in this way has messed with the wrong pub, the wrong community, and the wrong authorities,” he said in a statement.

On Wednesday, Staffordshire police said they were treating the fire at the pub, nine days after it was sold, as arson, and were speaking to the owners as part of their inquiries.

South Staffordshire council also said it was investigating potential planning breaches after the damaged pub was bulldozed two days after the fire without permission from authorities.

It has also emerged that the excavator used to bulldoze the building was brought on site a week before the fire, according to Construction News.

Marco Longhi, the Conservative MP for Dudley North, said on Friday he would be campaigning to “close the potential loophole” that allowed the building to be demolished while the investigation into the cause of the blaze was taking place.

“Staffordshire police have said they did not have the power to stop the owner of the Crooked House from demolishing the ruins following an arson. Agencies should be given the power to take the premises under their control while investigation is being carried out,” he said.

“The site should have been cordoned off for investigation and forensics the moment the police and fire service came to the site.”

ATE Farms and AT Contracting and Plant Hire have been contacted for comment.

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Ever since it burned down and was then demolished last week, there have been calls for the Crooked House pub in Staffordshire to be rebuilt from scratch.

Andy Street, the mayor of the West Midlands, told the local council he wanted to see it “rebuilt brick by brick (using as much original material as possible)”, and a Facebook group calling for it to be rebuilt has attracted more than 10,000 members.

Historical pub buildings have been successfully rebuilt before – the Carlton Tavern pub in Maida Vale reopened in 2021 and was rebuilt brick by brick after being demolished without permission.

But while doing so is not impossible, it would be a “huge endeavour”, said Andrew Lovett, chief executive of the Black Country Living Museum (BCLM), an open-air museum made up of rebuilt historical buildings about four miles down the road from where the Crooked House once stood.

After dozens of calls for the BCLM museum to intervene and save the pub, Lovett issued a statement this week saying that unfortunately the organisation was not in a position to “save, let alone relocate, the building”.

“It’s a very complicated and costly endeavour and that’s one of the reasons we’re not in a position to just suddenly drop everything and go and get the Crooked House,” he said.

This week marked the start of the rebuild of Dudley’s Woodside Library on the BCLM site. The library has been painstakingly moved, brick by brick, from its original home.

“We have to number pretty much everything, from the rafter to the bricks, and take everything down one by one,” Lovett said. “The bricks get loaded in reverse order on to a pallet to help with the rebuild process at the other end. We don’t call it demolition, we call it dismantling, and the whole process took about six months.

“But Woodside was built in 1894 so you will get bricks and stonework that have deteriorated and are structurally no good. Sometimes, you can substitute a brick from an inner part of the building, or we have to get stonemasons to replicate things. Particularly if it’s sandstone, which is quite porous, it is susceptible to rain and frost and cracking, and inevitably you end up having to replace it, it’s unavoidable.”

Last year the BCLM opened the Elephant and Castle pub, a recreation of an Edwardian pub which was unexpectedly demolished in Wolverhampton in 2001 before it could be listed. They used photographs and archive material to recreate it as faithfully as possible, and asked local people to donate any old pub memorabilia, furniture or alcohol bottles they had.

“It was only possible really because we had architectural plans and photographs,” Lovett said. “We were also able to talk to the last landlords and families that lived there and say, ‘where was the bar, what did it look like?’ It takes a lot of effort but if you get it right, it can really trigger memories for people.”

He said one of the main challenges of recreating old buildings was making sure they complied with current building regulations.

“There’s quite a big staircase in the Elephant and Castle, a beautiful wood one, but it didn’t meet fire regulations so there has to be a metal one underneath,” he said. “And, ironically given the Crooked House, we have to spend a lot of money making the ground safe to build on since we’re in a former mining area.”

The BCLM has taken on such a challenge before, however, when it recreated Jerushah Cottage, also known as The Tilted Cottage, by building it on a foundation at a 10-degree angle. “It can be done, we just had to lay a foundation deliberately at that angle so that when the building was put up, it was 10 degrees off,” said Lovett.

“Some people think we’re bonkers the effort we go to get the tiniest details right when we rebuild. But it’s those things that trigger memories and we get very emotional responses from people when they see it. If you’re slapdash about it, using the wrong screws or brass fittings, then it just undermines the whole process.”

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Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.

The labels' lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan said the Archive's "Great 78 Project" functions as an "illegal record store" for songs by musicians including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Billie Holiday.

They named 2,749 sound-recording copyrights that the Archive allegedly infringed. The labels said their damages in the case could be as high as $412 million.

Representatives for the Internet Archive did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint.

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive digitally archives websites, books, audio recordings and other materials. It compares itself to a library and says its mission is to "provide universal access to all knowledge."

The Internet Archive is already facing another federal lawsuit in Manhattan from leading book publishers who said its digital-book lending program launched in the pandemic violates their copyrights. A judge ruled for the publishers in March, in a decision that the Archive plans to appeal.

The Great 78 Project encourages donations of 78-rpm records -- the dominant record format from the early 1900s until the 1950s -- for the group to digitize to "ensure the survival of these cultural materials for future generations to study and enjoy." Its website says the collection includes more than 400,000 recordings.

The labels' lawsuit said the project includes thousands of their copyright-protected recordings, including Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven" and Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)".

The lawsuit said the recordings are all available on authorized streaming services and "face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed."

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Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.

The labels' lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan said the Archive's "Great 78 Project" functions as an "illegal record store" for songs by musicians including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Billie Holiday.

They named 2,749 sound-recording copyrights that the Archive allegedly infringed. The labels said their damages in the case could be as high as $412 million.

Representatives for the Internet Archive did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint.

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive digitally archives websites, books, audio recordings and other materials. It compares itself to a library and says its mission is to "provide universal access to all knowledge."

The Internet Archive is already facing another federal lawsuit in Manhattan from leading book publishers who said its digital-book lending program launched in the pandemic violates their copyrights. A judge ruled for the publishers in March, in a decision that the Archive plans to appeal.

The Great 78 Project encourages donations of 78-rpm records -- the dominant record format from the early 1900s until the 1950s -- for the group to digitize to "ensure the survival of these cultural materials for future generations to study and enjoy." Its website says the collection includes more than 400,000 recordings.

The labels' lawsuit said the project includes thousands of their copyright-protected recordings, including Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven" and Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)".

The lawsuit said the recordings are all available on authorized streaming services and "face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed."

One of the main reasons for the disparity is the lower taxes that the aviation industry benefits from.

If you fly from Paris to Barcelona the airline not only pays no VAT, but is also exempt from kerosene tax. If you make the same journey by train, the rail company will pay an energy tax and passenger VAT. This means higher costs for the company which are usually reflected in ticket prices.

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One of the main reasons for the disparity is the lower taxes that the aviation industry benefits from.

If you fly from Paris to Barcelona the airline not only pays no VAT, but is also exempt from kerosene tax. If you make the same journey by train, the rail company will pay an energy tax and passenger VAT. This means higher costs for the company which are usually reflected in ticket prices.

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For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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Vital heritage will be be lost unless planning laws change to protect historic pubs, campaigners say.

An open letter to the government from the Campaign for Pubs has highlighted the "appalling" case of The Crooked House pub in the Black Country, gutted in a fire then demolished.

Anger over the incident must act as a "catalyst for change", said campaigners.

Mayor Andy Street said whoever did this messed with the wrong community.

He strengthened his call for the pub in Himley, near Dudley, to be rebuilt "brick by brick".

"Whoever has targeted this beloved landmark in this way has messed with the wrong pub, the wrong community, and the wrong authorities," the West Midlands Metro Mayor said.

Saturday night's fire is being treated as arson by Staffordshire Police.

The 18th Century building, famed for its sloping floors and walls, was bulldozed less than two days after the fire, prompting anger from residents and former customers.

"Many historic pubs up and down the country are being lost as owners seek to cash in on the development value of a pub, even despite the pub being profitable and even when there is a potential owner who wants to buy the pub, as a pub," said the campaign group, which aims to promote, protect and support pubs across the country.

"The government must act to prevent pubs being lost when there is a buyer as a pub as well as introducing far more serious penalties for unauthorised conversions and demolitions."

Marco Longhi, MP for Dudley North, said he would campaign to close a "potential loophole" which could prevent the destruction of property during a potential criminal investigation.

Police should have been able to take the premises under their control during the arson investigation, he said.

"The site should have been cordoned off for investigation and forensics the moment the police and fire service came to the site," he said.

"I will support any initiative to close this potential loophole which the police is relying on for The Crooked House case."

James Stevens of The Chapel House pub at nearby Gornal echoed the call for new legislation to protect public institutions.

"I can't think of a more fitting legacy for our place than to use its name to stop another community from being robbed of their Crooked House."

The Crooked House was sold by Marston's in July to ATE Farms, based in Bedworth, Warwickshire.

ATE Farms is run by a Carly Taylor, with George Adam Taylor, 44, a previous director. Mr Taylor was also previously a director of Himley Environmental Ltd, which owns the 15-hectare Oak Farm Quarry and Landfill site adjacent to the Crooked House and is registered to the same address as ATE Farms.

They have been approached for comment by the BBC.

Mr Taylor owns the Sarah Mansfield pub in Willey, Warwickshire, which is empty and up for sale after being internally gutted in 2021.

Through another of his companies, AT Contracting Ltd, Mr Taylor has had two planning applications approved to renovate the pub's first floor into letting bedrooms and to build either one or two dwellings in the car park.

One source, who did not want to be named, said the pub had previously been a thriving hub in the village, but had since become a "depressing eyesore".

"One day during lockdown, a load of guys turned up with skips and machines and literally gutted the pub," they said.

"When we mean gutted, we mean no wiring, no plumbing, it's just an empty shell.

"It's sad looking at it. It's a loss, every time we walk past it it saddens us more."

A planning application made by ATE Farms to convert former quarry land near Lutterworth, Leicestershire, into a solar farm and residential lodges attracted some objections from locals.

One complainant called the plans "a blot on the landscape" with another accusing the applicant of "considerable removal of existing hedgerow on the site".

On Thursday, West Midlands Mayor Andy Street met with the leader of South Staffordshire Council to discuss the incident.

The council is considering whether the demolition of the building was unlawful.

Mr Street said resolve had been hardened to recreate the pub after the meeting with the local authority, and encouraged members of the public to stay away from the site.

"We feel the sadness, anger, and frustration as much as anyone over what has happened to The Crooked House, but the last thing we want is for well-intentioned community action to inadvertently damage any positive future for the site," he added.

"The Crooked House will not be consigned to history on our watch."