Monthly Archives: June 2015

House prices grow faster in Yorkshire than anywhere else

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The average cost of a home in Yorkshire is now almost �174,000, according to property website Rightmove. YORKSHIRE HAS witnessed the biggest increase in property prices outside of the South of England as asking prices have jumped to a new record across England and Wales. The average cost of a home in the region is now almost £174,000, an increase of nearly £6,000 on the figure at this time last year. It is a growing Read more [...]

LSE head: ‘abolish stamp duty on listed shares’

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The UK is lagging behind other developed economies by not broadening market access to private investors - a move which will make capitalism more popular, Mr Rolet continued. “The exceptional demand for shares in businesses like Royal Mail Group has proven the appetite savers have for investing and in IPOs in particular,” he wrote.”We ask that this Budget takes the steps to ensuring that a private investor tranche becomes not an oddity, but the default choice for most companies as they IPO.” Read more [...]

London-listed Vedanta Resources eyes £1.7bn cash pile after merger

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By City Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 19:34 GMT, 14 June 2015 | Updated: 19:34 GMT, 14 June 2015 View comments London-listed Vedanta Resources is merging its two main Indian subsidiaries in a bid to gain access to around £1.7billion in cash.The firm brings together India’s largest private miner Vedanta Limited and cash-rich oil and gas unit Cairn India.Shareholders Read more [...]

BT TV’s Delia Bushell: ‘We’re not on a trolley dash to take all sports rights’

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Turning 43 was, perhaps, more joyous for Delia Bushell than for most people. “My birthday was the day of our big press launch,” says Bushell. Then she adds: “Nothing better than sharing your birthday with Gary Lineker on stage.” As managing director of TV and sport for BT, Bushell is Lineker’s new boss. He is BT’s biggest on-screen signing so far, as the phone company turned pay-TV insurgent parks ever more tanks on Sky’s premium-sports lawn. The hoopla heralded Lineker as co-presenter Read more [...]

Gears of War 3 Xbox One Remake Listed On Official Russian Website

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The official Gears of War Russian website has a listing for Gears of War 3 on Xbox One. The Russian Gears of War website only lists Gears of War 3 for Xbox One at the moment. It also has a listing for “Judgment” too, but this is for the ordinary Xbox 360 version. The interesting thing about the Gears of War 3 Xbox One listing is that it has a release date for August 25, 2015. It might be coming out very soon. Another thing interesting about the listing is that it’s for Gears Read more [...]

Gasworks wonders…

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‘As the bowler runs in, it’s so quiet you can hear the creak of the gasometer,” the cricket commentator, Henry Blofeld, once mused during a broadcast of Test Match Special from the Oval. For Blofeld, and countless cricket fans, many of whom have never set foot in south London, the looming skeletal frame of the gasometer is not just part of the landscape but of the atmosphere of the ground on match days. A vintage 1893 illustration of the cricketer WG Grace at the Oval cricket ground shows Read more [...]

Transformers Devastation Listed With 1980s Cast by Platinum Games

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Best Buy Canada is listing a Transformers Devastation game for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One from Activision. According to the listing, the Japanese developer Platinum Games (Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, The Legend of Korra) is developing the game with five playable Autobots: Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, Wheeljack, and Grimlock. Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime), Dan Gilvezan (Bumblebee), Frank Welker (Megatron and Soundwave), and other voice actors from Read more [...]

Game of thrones: The next generation of the House of Windsor

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Peter PhillipsThe Queen’s eldest grandchild is the UK boss of a sports management company whose clients include his sister Zara. After graduating from the University of Exeter in 2000, the 37 year old worked for Jaguar Racing and the Williams Formula 1 team, meeting his Canadian wife Autumn, 37, at the Montreal Grand Prix.The newlyweds reportedly caused unease in royal circles when they sold the rights to their 2008 wedding to a magazine before relocating to Hong Kong, where the 13th in line to Read more [...]

Big Ben must have £3bn save ‘no matter what’, says historian Dan Cruickshank

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The order comes as MPs face being evicted for five years while the buildings undergo a £3billion makeover.The Grade One-listed building requires extensive repair work amid warnings it is suffering from chronic subsidence, electrical problems, fire risks, plumbing leaks, rats and is full of asbestos. The worst problems are linked to subsidence, caused by decades of Tube trains rattling past its foundations, that has caused Big Ben to tilt 18ins off the vertical.A 2012 study showed that unless significant Read more [...]

Kim Dotcom’s ‘Mega Domains’ Are Now For Sale

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When Kim Dotcom’s mansion was raided early 2012, the U.S. Government targeted various domain names that were linked to the “Mega conspiracy.” While Megaupload and Megavideo were the most prominent targets, the indictment also listed megapix.com, megacar.com, megabackup.com and various other “Mega” domains. All the above sites were pulled offline as a result of the raids, and Megaupload.com and Megavideo.com displayed a banner informing visitors that the sites were under investigation. Read more [...]