Monthly Archives: July 2015

PICTURES: Stunning Cornish home featured in Daphne du Maurier novel up for …

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Comments (0) An historic waterfront property in Cornwall has come up for sale with the bonus of having its own private beach.Chapel Point House is a unique Grade II listed home which was featured in a Daphne du Maurier novel.The Grade II listed principal house, which has 4,000 sq/ft of space, has five bedrooms, four reception rooms and three bathrooms.And a set of steps lead from the property down to its own sandy beach and boat house. There is also Read more [...]

Clothing giants fined for work on listed Beatles building – Get West London

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US clothes giants Abercrombie Fitch have been fined for carrying out work on a Grade II-listed building in Savile Row made famous by The Beatles’ roof-top gig. AFH Stores UK Limited and their co-defendant contract, Castletech Construction Ltd, were both fined £3,000, plus costs, by Westminster Magistrates' Court on June 3 for a breach of a conditional listed building consent, at the new Abercrombie Kids store at No.3 Savile Row, Westminster Council said. The building was formerly the base of Read more [...]

Clothing giants fined for work on listed Beatles building

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US clothes giants Abercrombie Fitch have been fined for carrying out work on a Grade II-listed building in Savile Row made famous by The Beatles’ roof-top gig. AFH Stores UK Limited and their co-defendant contract, Castletech Construction Ltd, were both fined £3,000, plus costs, by Westminster Magistrates' Court on June 3 for a breach of a conditional listed building consent, at the new Abercrombie Kids store at No.3 Savile Row, Westminster Council said. The building was formerly the base of Read more [...]

Homes for sale North Wales: Mansion with asking price of £5m goes on sale for …

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VIEW GALLERY You'd have to have lots of wardrobes to fill it as this huge and amazing country house has SIXTEEN bedrooms! It also has a view of the sea, comes with a 2,075-acre coastal and sporting estate, along with three cottages, a coach house and a series of outbuildings. Phew! The historic Georgian mansion is on the market for the first time in more than 250 years. Plas Gwyn near Pentraeth on Anglesey is a Grade II listed building and is up for sale with an asking price of £5m, although Read more [...]

Hong Kong stocks plunge on China rout, Greece fears

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China stocks took another plunge Wednesday, as the securities regulator warned the market was in the grip of "panic" selling after fresh government moves failed to arrest a rout that has now infected regional markets.Confidence took a hit as trading halts expanded to cover more than 1,300 companies -- nearly half of mainland listings -- to prevent further sharp declines in their stock prices.The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index closed down 5.90 percent, or 219.93 Read more [...]

China stock market freezing up as sell-off gathers pace

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SHANGHAI China's tumbling stock market showed signs of seizing up on Wednesday, as companies scrambled to escape the rout by having their shares suspended and indexes plunged after the securities regulator warned of "panic sentiment" gripping investors.Beijing, which has struggled for more than a week to bend the market to its will, unveiled yet another battery of measures to arrest the sell-off, and the People's Bank of China said it would step up support to brokerages enlisted to prop up shares.The Read more [...]

Homes for sale North Wales: Anglesey mansion with asking price of £5m

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VIEW GALLERY You'd have to have lots of wardrobes to fill it as this huge and amazing country house has SIXTEEN bedrooms! It also has a view of the sea, comes with a 2,075-acre coastal and sporting estate, along with three cottages, a coach house and a series of outbuildings. Phew! The historic Georgian mansion is on the market for the first time in more than 250 years. Plas Gwyn near Pentraeth on Anglesey is a Grade II listed building and is up for sale with an asking price of £5m, although Read more [...]

Why China’s stock market rout is a bigger problem than you think, in one chart

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U.S. investors are finally getting a front row seat to China’s market meltdown. Much of the near month-long collapse of the Chinese stock market, which has sent prices plunging 26%, has seemed like a sideshow to U.S. investors. Stocks in the U.S. in general have mostly continued to go up. And the U.S., Greece, and even Puerto Rico have played a larger role in market news. The question is, how big of an economic story is China’s stock market stumble? China’s market is volatile. It went Read more [...]