Monthly Archives: April 2015

US home sales bounced back in March, but can the gain last?

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By Associated Press Published: 19:04 GMT, 22 April 2015 | Updated: 19:05 GMT, 22 April 2015 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home sales bloomed in March after a brutal winter, a sign of possible newfound momentum for housing.Sales of existing homes jumped 6.1 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.19 million, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. The gains were Read more [...]

Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre celebrates its 25th anniversary

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A new funding campaign is being launched to mark the 25th anniversary of a writing centre. The Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre in Llanystumdwy near Criccieth opened with its first poetry course in April 1990. Since that all-important inaugural course tutored by poets Gillian Clarke and Robert Minhinnick, hundreds of adults and young people have visited Tŷ Newydd each year to take part in residential creative writing courses and retreats. Literature Wales is celebrating this important landmark in Tŷ Read more [...]

How the fat cat fund managers rake in rewards

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By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 22:58 GMT, 21 April 2015 | Updated: 10:03 GMT, 22 April 2015 2 View comments The annual chorus of recrimination over executive pay is rising to a crescendo this week as HSBC braces itself for a row at its shareholder meeting over the £7.6million package handed to Stuart Gulliver, its non-dom chief executive.Back-of-the-envelope Read more [...]

Home of Malvern Town Football Club listed as community asset

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MALVERN Town Football Club's stadium has been registered an asset of community value. The HDanywhere stadium has gained the status after a successful nomination, meaning the club could possibly own the stadium should it be put up for sale by Malvern Hills District Council (MHDC), which owns the ground. Chris Pinder, managing director of Malvern Town Football Club, said: "It is important to understand that a successful listing gives us the right Read more [...]

Listed companies in north west grow by 1.25 per cent in three months

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The north west’s listed businesses have continued to perform well on the public markets, adding more than £300m to stabilise their collective market capitalisation in the first quarter of 2015. Data from Deloitte’s North West Share Index reveals businesses in the region grew at an average of 1.25 per cent in the first three months of the year. This follows the region’s end to 2014, which saw the collective market cap grow by £2.2bn. The strongest performing company so far this year is molecular Read more [...]

Former Barratts factory sign repainted on wall in Northampton

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The wall of the former Barratts shoe factory in Northampton has been restored to its former glory five years after it was controversially whitewashed. The listed building in Kingsthorpe Road, now known as Barratt House. has since the 1960s had a painted sign on its northern wall directing the public to ‘walk round’ the ‘factory shoe shop’. The sign after being repainted in 2010 In 2010, it was whitewashed then repainted with the reference to the shoe shop omitted in response Read more [...]

Apartment plan for listed building in Preston set for green light

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LISTED BUILDING: Miller Arcade in Preston, which could be converted into apartments A grade II listed building looks set to be converted into apartments and a restaurant, after plans were recommended for the green light. Callaway Estates Ltd has lodged an application to convert the upper floors of the Miller Arcade in Preston into 45 studio apartments with a decked roof garden. The proposed development would deliver Read more [...]

Fat cat fund managers rake in rewards as savers plough more money into …

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By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 22:58 GMT, 21 April 2015 | Updated: 22:58 GMT, 21 April 2015 View comments The annual chorus of recrimination over executive pay is rising to a crescendo this week as HSBC braces itself for a row at its shareholder meeting over the £7.6million package handed to Stuart Gulliver, its non-dom chief executive.Back-of-the-envelope Read more [...]