BF Investment, Kalyani Investment to list on Jan 14

Investment divisions of BF Utilities and Kalyani Steels will be listing on exchanges on Friday, January 14, 2011. Investment business undertaking of BF Utilities (BFUL) got demerged and vested in BF Investment (BFIL). BFIL has allotted 3,76,67,628  equity shares of Rs 5 each to the shareholders of the BFUL in the ratio of 1 fully paid equity share of Rs 5 each of BFIL for every 1 equity share of Rs 5 each held in BFUL. The issued, subscribed and paid-up Read more [...]

Lib Dems seek new Westminster office space

Cowley Street offices will be vacated Article posted: 13 Jan 2011According to reports in Property Week magazine, The Liberal Democrats are on the look out for new office space in Westminster within close proximity to the Houses of Parliament.   The Lib Dems will vacate their offices in Victoria at 4 Cowley Street, SW1, in favour of a property which can accommodate them on a single floor. It is thought that several potential properties have already been viewed.   Formerly the London HQ of the Read more [...]

Prestige Queensland property market ‘to be hit hardest’

THE volatile Queensland property market will take a dramatic hit from the state's floods. Tthousands of houses are likely to be pulled from the market and prices forecast to fall as the southeast corner rebuilds.House prices in Brisbane have already been among the weakest across Australia in the past year, with median prices down nearly 2.7 per cent in the final few months of last year.The falling prices were exacerbated by a sharp increase in the number of home Read more [...]

Prestige Queensland property market 'to be hit hardest'

THE volatile Queensland property market will take a dramatic hit from the state's floods. Tthousands of houses are likely to be pulled from the market and prices forecast to fall as the southeast corner rebuilds.House prices in Brisbane have already been among the weakest across Australia in the past year, with median prices down nearly 2.7 per cent in the final few months of last year.The falling prices were exacerbated by a sharp increase in the number of home Read more [...]

Crumbling site forces library to move out

Jan 13 2011 by Carys Hepworth, Glamorgan Gazette A TOWN library will be moved and the site sold off to save a cash-strapped council money. Coed Parc Library, on Park Street, Bridgend, was deemed “beyond any form of economical repair” in a report put before Bridgend County Borough Council cabinet members. And the cabinet agreed the lending library be relocated to the council’s Raven’s Court building in Brewery Lane. While the reference and information library will move to the Read more [...]

Victory for guest house

Published: Thursday, 13th January, 2011 9:24am by Bryan Copland Comments (0) | Print | Email A COUPLE have been given the green light to continue to run a five-star bed and breakfast from their historic mansion just west of Haddington – despite strong opposition from neighbours. Chris and Barbara Sharman were on Tuesday awarded retrospective permission from East Lothian Council planning committee to use five rooms in the 17th century grade B-listed building as a guest house, despite Read more [...]

Alaska holds largest winter festival in N. America

By Lee Hyo-sik Thousands of visitors from North America and around the world will flock to Anchorage, Alaska, to be part of the largest winter festival on the continent, the “Fur Rendezvous Festival,” on Feb. 25 to March 6. During the festival, known to locals as “Fur Rondy,” the streets of downtown Anchorage become a winter spectacle for all to enjoy. There are a number of activities and events such as ice sculpture exhibitions, sled dog weight pulling, Eskimo blanket toss, snowshoe softball, Read more [...]

Cumbrian man admits affray charge

By Staff Reporter Last updated at 14:05, Thursday, 13 January 2011 A man has been remanded in custody after admitting behaving violently in Wigton. Alistair David Pape, 28, pleaded guilty at Carlisle Crown Court to charges of affray and carrying a kitchen knife in a public place. The charges arose from events in Waver Lane, Wigton, on October 23. Pape, whose address was listed as Coach-house Cottage, Armathwaite, pleaded not guilty to stealing Christina Corrie’s Read more [...]