Game Digital spends £20m on gaming event business Multiplay

Multiplay’s clients include some of the biggest names in the games industry, including Minecraft maker Mojang, EA Sports, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and Jagex Studios. Last year's Call of Duty championships The scene has also been propelled into the mainstream by technological advances that allow live streaming of games. Game makers are also attracting heavyweight Hollywood names to appear in games, for example the latest Call of Duty features Kevin Spacey as a lead character. That franchise Read more [...]

Grade II-listed 5-bedroom property with annexe

Tudor and Georgian meet at this luxurious home with five bedrooms and extensive living accommodation. The Den, Tunstall, near Sittingbourne There is a self-contained, one-bedroom coach house, studio, a former buttery and over an acre of grounds, all in an extremely convenient and accessible village location. The original Tudor parts of this Grade II listed home are believed to date from around 1520, with the later Georgian addition to the front in 1768. The main house Read more [...]

Listed IFA acquires Kent-based adviser for £973k

Listed adviser AFH Financial has acquired the assets of Rochester-based adviser CIB Wealth Management for almost £975,000, marking its eighth acquisition since the firm listed on Aim in June 2014 and the fifth during the current financial year. Under the terms of the acquisition, the maximum consideration payable is £973,350. The acquisition will boost AFH’s funds under management by £41m. This is made up of £453,600 payable upon completion and the Read more [...]

Two bed flat with riverside views – who wants to rent the Houses of Parliament?

It has period details that would make Kirstie Allsopp weep, breathtaking river views and a world-class location – but who would live in a flat like this? If housing campaign group Generation Rent gets its way, it could be any of us. In a bid to save taxpayers money and create decent, reasonably priced rental homes in sustainable communities, the organisation has come up with quite a plan: turn the Houses of Parliament into 364 flats. Now, with the help of Jay Morton, an architect who specialises Read more [...]

Carnsalloch House plan review sought

2 March 2015 Last updated at 00:16 GMT Developers say the buildings have been targeted by vandals, fireraisers and drug users A review is being sought for a rejected residential development on the site of a historic mansion near Dumfries which has fallen into disrepair. Proposals have been lodged to convert Carnsalloch House and build a number of new homes. Dumfries and Galloway Council has Read more [...]

Starting a business in North London

Where is North London? Barnet, Enfield, Haringey and Waltham Forest Click the map to view other London regions Why should you start a business in North London? Although North London has the smallest proportion of small and medium-sized businesses (10-49 employees) in the capital, 92.58% of enterprises in the area are micro-businesses (0-9 employees) so early-stage entrepreneurs are in good company, with this figure expected to rise as work takes place on the Meridian Water redevelopment. Affecting Read more [...]

‘Unrealistic’ price expectations lead to 15-year sale for Point Frederick vendor

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£8000 awarded to St Mary’s

CELEBRATION TIME: Christine Davis, Mary Haresign, Shirley Pugh and Val Day with news of the Heritage Lottery Fund award for their church. SG240215-161TW Time will no longer stand still in the heart of Cowbit following an £8,000 award from the Heritage Lottery Fund to St Mary’s Church. The money will allow vital repairs to be carried out to the historic church tower clock, which ground to a halt last March, and to the belfry Read more [...]

Given a multiverse, does astrology work somewhere?

I find it amazing that the scientific method (or methods, if you prefer) is powerful enough to start classifying different types of multiverse. Max Tegmark has had a go at it, as described here by Tony Padilla in another Sixty Symbols video: So, four types, in order of increasing generality, controversy and wildness, which I’d sumarise as Stuff which is so far away that even travelling at the speed of light, nothing from there can have got here yet, and vice versa. These disconnected universes Read more [...]

Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Robbie Williams continue neighbour row

Take That star bought £17.5m mansion in London's Holland Park in 2013Now he wants to build extension with large subterranean swimming poolPlans upset some neighbours - chief among them veteran guitarist Page71-year-old said it could upset the fabric of his Grade I listed tower houseHe hired architects and engineers who warned of 'damaging' vibrationsBy Dan Bloom for MailOnline Published: 17:51 GMT, 1 March 2015 | Updated: 20:43 GMT, 1 March 2015 Read more [...]