Monthly Archives: May 2011

Cairn and Vedanta agree open-ended deadline

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Cairn Energy has extended the deadline for completing the $9.6bn (£5.9bn) sale of its Indian unit to Vedanta, the London-listed, Indian-focused mining company, while awaiting New Delhi’s blessing for the deal.In a statement, the British oil explorer said it was not setting any new deadline but that the two companies had agreed to “extend the closing date on their sale and purchase agreement in order to secure the necessary consents and approvals from the government of India to complete the transaction”. Read more [...]

Homes Sold in and Around Wilmington Last Week

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Welcome to our feature: Sold! Each week at this time, we'll show you some of the residences purchased in and around Wilmington.  Click on the photo at right to look at a photo gallery of homes that sold in Wilmington and surrounding communities between May 12-18.  The same information without photos is available below in an easy-to-scan list. In the market for a new home? Be sure to check out our House Hunt column on Fridays for open houses in your area. 4 Clinton St., Wilmington List Price: $429,900. Sale Read more [...]

Sports moments we’d all want to hear

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AP Photo/Al BehrmanWould you have wanted to listen in when Pete Rose placed his first bet on baseball?We should send an interoffice memo to ESPN Programming because we know what would be a great new series: "Sports Snoops." Seriously, let's run this up the flag pole and see whether it waves; let's drop it in the well and see whether it splashes; let's pull it from the hat and see whether it hops. The pitch is a show that recreates moments in sports that were not actually recorded because either Read more [...]

Constellation keen on Treasury Wine Estates if it is for sale

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Wine Appreciation Course Source: The Courier-Mail DESPITE pulling out of Australia, Constellation Brands will consider buying Treasury Wine Estates. Constellation's chief executive Rob Sands said in an interview this week that if it becomes an opportunity and the business is for sale, then it would look at it.The United States-based Constellation Brands sold 80 Read more [...]

Aim-listed Parseq jumps 24% after O2 mobile wallet deal

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Aim-listed technology company Parseq has jumped by nearly a quarter after one of its subsidiaries won a multi-million pound contract with O2.Parseq said the deal was a three year contract to manage a mobile wallet service for "a major new entrant to the UK retail financial services market." But O2 has issued an announcement detailing the awarding of a contract to Parseq subsidiary Intelligent Environments. Other companies involved in the O2 project are Gibraltar based e-payment group Wave Crest Read more [...]

More homes on Brisbane market but they’re not selling

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BRISBANE'S property market is still flooded with homes for sale as the time it takes to clinch a deal has also blown out. While the number of houses for sale in Brisbane is slowly starting to decline, there are still substantially more on the market now than at the same time last year, according to RP Data figures. Analyst Cameron Kusher said Brisbane's total listings were 27.9 per cent higher than they were at this time last year. But he said the number of Read more [...]

Readers: Sports moments we’d want to hear

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AP Photo/Al BehrmanWould you have wanted to listen in when Pete Rose placed his first bet on baseball?We should send an interoffice memo to ESPN Programming because we know what would be a great new series: "Sports Snoops." Seriously, let's run this up the flag pole and see whether it waves; let's drop it in the well and see whether it splashes; let's pull it from the hat and see whether it hops. The pitch is a show that recreates moments in sports that were not actually recorded because either Read more [...]

For sale: One of Scotland’s greatest country houses

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This week sees the launch in Country Life of one of Scotland's great country houses, the Category A-listed Blair Castle and its 1,265-acre estate at Dalry, Ayrshire, ancestral home of the Blair family for more than 900 years. Savills in Edinburgh (0131-247 3720) seek ‘offers over £8 million' for the ‘wonderfully private but accessible' Lowland estate, with its unique landscape of 260 acres of park and woodland, 1,000 acres of farmland, four farmhouses and seven cottages, close to the Read more [...]

Concern for listed Scraptoft Hall following fires

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19 May 2011 Last updated at 08:56 GMT Scraptoft Hall has suffered from numerous incidents of vandalism since this image was taken Residents in a Leicestershire village have expressed growing concerns for the state of a vacant Grade II* listed building, following a spate of fires. Four arson attacks have been reported at Scraptoft Hall, which is awaiting redevelopment, since 10 April. Read more [...]