Monthly Archives: September 2014

Northampton lift tower gets permanent abseiling status

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3 September 2014 Last updated at 11:35 The National Abseil Team estimated 500 people abseiled down the tower for charity in the past year A 418ft (127m) high former industrial tower is to become a permanent centre for charity abseils. The Grade II-listed National Lift Tower in Northampton was opened by Express Lifts in 1982 and used for research purposes until 2008. Nearly 500 people have Read more [...]

Hundreds of stolen credit cards from Evansville listed for sale online

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EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) - Several hundred credit cards from Evansville are listed on a website known for selling that stolen information. The information from at least two different credit unions is selling worldwide for as little as $6.75. The cards and their information are listed on the website rescator.cc Bloomberg says that website has become the clearinghouse for some of the largest breaches, selling hundreds of thousands of cards at a time. Experts say cybercriminals, involved in Read more [...]

Perform receives takeover bid from US giant

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SHARES in Perform, a sports media group which has around 200 staff in Yorkshire, have risen after it received a buyout bid. US entrepreneur Len Blavatnik’s investment group Access Industries plans to buy out the rest of Perform that it does not already own, valuing the entire sports rights firm at £701.6m. Perform, which listed on the London stock market in 2011, buys online rights to major sports events and supplies video clips, live action and sports news and Read more [...]

Waggoner Ranch, among the largest in the U.S., listed for sale

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Waggoner Ranch, among the largest in the U.S., listed for sale Photo courtesy of www.waggonerranch.com The main entrance to the 510,000-acre Waggoner Ranch, which is spread over six North Texas counties. The ranch has been put on the market with a list price of $725 million. Waggoner Ranch, among the largest in the U.S., listed for sale Photo courtesy of www.waggonerranch.com Read more [...]

Heritage campaigners hit out at Yorkshire Water in row over listed spillway

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YORKSHIRE water has been criticised for carrying out work at a Victorian reservoir without obtaining listed building consent. Protest group Save Butterley Spillway has complained about the installation of a valve and metal platform at Butterley Reservoir above Marsden, near Huddersfield. The group has been fighting to protect the listed stone spillway from renovation works, which were rejected by councillors but are now subject to an appeal.A spokesman for the group Read more [...]

Buyers intimidated away from repossessed properties

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‘NOT FOR SALE’… The stark warning for potential buyers of the house on the Killyfuddy Road, outside Trillick. ATTEMPTS to sell repossessed homes in parts of Tyrone have been met with violence and intimidation, a Co Down-based property auctioneer has claimed. BRG Gibson in Holywood has become one of the north’s biggest auctioneers for repossessed houses, selling dozens of properties in Belfast and Dublin every six weeks. Speaking to the TyroneHerald last week, one of the company’s auctioneers, Read more [...]

Campbeltown Picture House planning for spectacular return

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Amongst its magnificently consistent built heritage, with 150 listed buildings, Campbeltown’s A-listed Picture House had its centenary last year, 2013. It is one of the few early purpose-built cinemas in Scotland still showing films.It is the only cinema in Scotland which retains what was called the ‘atmospheric style’ dec0ration. This relates to the two different little ‘houses’ at ether side of the screen, in the position of theatre boxes. These were added in the remodelling of the interior Read more [...]

Kevin Andrews asks World Congress of Families to stop using his name

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Social services minister Kevin Andrews has asked organisers of the World Congress of Families conservative Christian conference to remove a reference to him as “international secretary” from their promotional material. Andrews last week pulled out of delivering the opening address at the World Congress of Families after hearing that the rightwing Christian group Catch the Fire would host it. In the latest congress newsletter, the anti-gay, anti-feminist and anti-abortion Read more [...]