Monthly Archives: February 2015

Great North Run One Million shortlisted for best live event at prestigious …

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Video loading One of the biggest events to hit Newcastle’s quayside in decades is in the running for a prestigious award. The Great North Run Million event has been shortlisted as best live event at this year’s BT Sports Industry Awards. The event, which celebrated the one millionth runner completing the iconic half-marathon, turned the Tyne into a spectacle with Jill Halfpenny and Tim Healy narrating performances as well as including live performances from Sting, Mark Knopfler, Read more [...]

Travel: stay in the lap of luxury at the Andaz Liverpool Street in London

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Comments (0) THERE was a time – oh at least five years ago – when checking into a hotel was a formal, official, tight-lipped kind of affair. Inevitably you would make small talk about the weather while reluctantly handing over excessive amounts of personal information to the concierge including an update on your neighbour’s vicious-looking cat. But times have changed and in 2015, the idea of a check-in desk is very much old hat. Or Read more [...]

Former church for sale in Merthyr Tydfil with stunning stained glass window, a …

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VIEW GALLERY Could this property finally be the heavenly home you’ve been searching for? The Grade II-listed St John’s Church – complete with an original stained glass window, a marble memorial and the burial place of one of Merthyr Tydfil’s greatest iron masters – is going under the hammer with a guide price of just £50,000. And the property, in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, could catch the eye of potential investors as it comes with planning permission for 20 apartments. Derelict Read more [...]

Duchess of Rutland: How I revived fortunes of Belvoir Castle estate

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Comments (0) Forget Downton Abbey, Deputy Business Editor Tom Pegden talks to a real Duchess about running a stately home and its estate Emma Rutland is the kind of person who clearly gets things done. Whether that’s bringing overseas business onto her vast estate at Belvoir, making the tough decision to lay off more than 100 staff, or meeting and greeting the great and the good. As Duchess of Rutland and, for all intents and purposes, Read more [...]

Grade II listed 5-bedroom cottage at Pluckley

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Cross the bridge over the duck pond to find grade II listed Bow Cottage on the edge of the village of Pluckley. Bow Cottage, Pluckley In a picturesque setting, the pretty five-bedroom house is typical of this area, which was the setting of TV series The Darling Buds of May. There is a mainline station just a mile away and a double garage with an office over. Add to this the potential to continue a successful bed and breakfast business and this could be the house to change Read more [...]

Trust Insider: the strange death of listed fund-of-hedge-funds

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Marten Co recently provided some research on a fund of hedge funds, Altin. As we were drafting the note, one thing became quite obvious. In the UK investment company space at least, funds of hedge funds are close to extinction. The pace of the decline has, if anything, accelerated over the last few months as first Lyxor Focus Fund was liquidated and now Dexion Absolute and Acencia Debt Strategies are about to hand back about half their assets to exiting shareholders. Just five Read more [...]

Mars One Names Britons Short-Listed For One Way Trip To Red Planet

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Five Britons have been shortlisted for a one-way trip to Mars as they hope to become the first humans to step foot on the Red Planet.Four women and a man from the UK are among the final 100 candidates for the Mars One Project which plans to set up a (somewhat far-fetched) permanent human settlement on the planet by 2024.The hopefuls are Hannah Earnshaw, 23, a PhD student in astronomy at Durham University, Dr Maggie Lieu, 24, a PhD in Astrophysics Read more [...]