By Gideon Spanier – 26 July 2013 Yellow Pages owner hibu has finally collapsed into the arms of its lenders under £2.3bn of debt, wiping out shareholders and ending its listed company history. Shares were suspended before trading began at 0.17p – from a peak of 603p in February 2007.Lenders, including veteran George Soros's Soros Fund Management, will take control Read more [...]

26 July 2013 Last updated at 01:11 Continue reading the main story Built in 1888, the Bury St Edmunds Yard signal required four resident signal men to work the levers The Skegness signal box in East Lindsey was at the end of the Poacher line which ran from Nottingham Hebden Bridge signal box was fitted with 36 levers and is one of only a handful of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway boxes to survive Read more [...]

Twenty-six of England's rarest and best-preserved railway signal boxes have been grade II-listed. Some of the boxes date from the late-Victorian era.In the 1940s, there were as many as 10,000 signal boxes, but today fewer than 500 are in use by Network Rail (NR), which has joined English Heritage in seeking out the best examples of historic boxes.One of the boxes on the list is in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and dates from 1891. Another at Downham Market in Norfolk is from 1883 and, unusually, Read more [...]

Ruth Quinn: hopes the races will increase opportunities for fillies and mares   PICTURE: Dan Abraham   THE BHA has added three new Listed races for mares to the 2013/14 Jumps black type programme, following positive indications from British and Irish sales houses regarding the sales prices of fillies. The new races include a 2m5f mares' hurdle race at Warwick in February and two mares' bumpers at Cheltenham in November and Huntingdon on Boxing Day. All three races are valued at £20,000. The Read more [...]

By Lucy Craymer The New Zealand Refining Company Ltd.’s Marsden Point facility, the country’s only oilrefinery, is pictured Friday, September 30, 2005. Bloomberg News Fuel supplier Z Energy is set to become the latest company to list in New Zealand as the benchmark index nears record levels.  Current owners Infratil Ltd. and New Zealand Superannuation Fund confirmed earlier Thursday they plan to raise up to 900 million New Zealand dollars ($714.8 million) by offering between Read more [...]