Monthly Archives: June 2015

General Electric to sell capital fleet to competitor Element Financial for $6.98bn

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General Electric, the American multinational conglomerate, is to sell off GE Capital’s fleet management operations in the US, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand for $6.98bn (£4.44bn) in cash.One of America’s largest companies, GE will sell several of its fleet businesses to a Canadian rival, as part of the firm’s strategy of focuses on its more profitable units.The fleet businesses provide commercial vehicle financing and fleet managements systems, which will be bought Read more [...]

School coach death crash man named

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A driver killed when a coach carrying 34 British school pupils crashed in Belgium has been named. James "Geordie" Chance was the only fatality of the crash in Middelkerke in West Flanders although a 13-year-old boy suffered a fractured skull. The grandfather of five, from Lisburn in County Antrim, was believed to have been sitting next to the coach's driver when it crashed into a motorway bridge. The coach involved in the crash is owned by Richmond Coaches of Ballinderry Road, Lisburn, Read more [...]

Western Isles opium castle given £4m Lottery boost

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Lews Castle and park in Stornoway will be restored with the help of a �4 million Heritage Lottery grant THE restoration of a historic castle built in the Western Isles for a Scottish opium baron has been handed a Lottery boost of almost £4 million. The £18m development of Lews Castle in Stornoway involves the transformation of the category-A listed building into a massive tourist attraction.Lews Castle, which Read more [...]

National Trials: Melaine Walker listed for 100m hurdles

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Olympic and World Championships 400m hurdles gold medal winner Melaine Walker is listed to compete in the second of three semi-finals of the women's 100m hurdles at the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships at the National Stadium today. It's left to be seen if Walker, who has not competed in Jamaica since the 2012 National Championships, will actually show up for the event, but she is listed to run out of lane seven in a semi that also features defending champion Monique Morgan Read more [...]

"Owarimonogatari" Anime Listed for 2015

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Japanese fans have noticed that Hiroko Kazui's online resume is listing storyboard board work for Owarimonogatari along with Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Kōfuku Graffiti" Nisekoi, Maria the Virgin Witch among the 2015 productions. Kazui previously worked on Hanamonogatari.       Owarimonogatari ("End Story"), comprised of three volumes, is the twelfth part of the Monogatari series. The fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth books overall, they contain the stories Ougi Formula, Sodachi Read more [...]

Missile base designed to shoot down Soviet nuclear warheads goes on sale

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Nike Control Site DY-10 in Abilene, Texas, has been put up for saleMissiles housed there were designed to shoot down Soviet ICBMsSite is not far from air force base which housed U.S. warheadsOwners say the base is dilapidated but has development potentialSuggested it could be turned into off-the-grid family compound By Kieran Corcoran For Dailymail.com Published: 01:18 GMT, 28 June 2015 | Updated: 14:29 GMT, 28 June 2015 Read more [...]

FINA Holds A World Record When It Comes To Poor Score-Keeping & Dead …

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A gold medal for world junior records among the youth of the world - a wooden spoon for FINA when it comes to record keepingEditorial The media has long had cause to complain about FINA’s poor record keeping, the history of the sport, results, statistics and eating kept by others not the federation down the years. The gap in factual book-keeping and respect to and of the thread of history in swimming is all the more obvious at times of major competition and when the international federation Read more [...]

Memorials to Titanic hero given listed status

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Grave of Wallace Hartley in Colne Cemetery.Photo Ben Parsons The memorial and gravestone of courageous Titanic bandmaster Wallace Hartley have been made Grade II listed sites by Historic England. The gravestone, which is situated in Colne Cemetery, and the memorial on Albert Road, are among 510 newly-listed historic sites across England revealed last week. Wallace Hartley became a national hero when his eight-piece Read more [...]

Plans to turn empty Grade II* listed NatWest bank in St Martin’s in city …

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Comments (1) Plans have been drawn up to turn an empty grade II* listed building in the city centre into a restaurant.The application outlines plans to turn the former NatWest bank, in St Martin's, into a Middleton's Steakhouse Grill.The company first opened in 2010 just outside King's Lynn, in Norfolk, and they now also have restaurants in Norwich, Colchester, and Milton Keynes.The exterior of the building at 2 St Martin's, which dates back to 1900, will not Read more [...]

Church roof appeal reaches £70k

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AN APPEAL to raise almost £400,000 for major repairs to a Grade II-Listed Raglan church has reached £70,000. The ‘Raise the Roof’ appeal was launched by parishioners of St Cadoc’s Church in October 2013 after a quinquennial inspection made it clear that the entire roof should be replaced along with other works carried out to the fabric of the church. As well as repairs to the roof, gutters and tower buttresses, other improvements need to be made such as installing Read more [...]