Monthly Archives: August 2015

Listed: The five most popular roads on Teesside for cyclists

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Can you guess which road is the most popular for cycling on Teesside? The B1380, otherwise known as Ormesby Road, had an average of 199 cyclists on it every day in 2014 according to the Department for Transport. This was more than for any other road in the area. The B1380 runs from the Greystones Roundabout, near Wilton, to the Blue Bell roundabout at Acklam. And it comes as it was revealed that commuter traffic travels at speeds as low as 15mph on some roads on Teesside . Peter Reimann Greystones Read more [...]

Publishers Love Throwing Events, But It’s No Easy Business

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By Steven Perlberg CONNECT Reuters/Mike Segar Facing an ever-crowded media environment and a competitive ad market, publishers have in recent years invested more in throwing big events that can draw in revenue from sponsors and conference-goers. The calendar has become packed with panels, seminars, conferences and thought-leading luncheons from publishers ranging from Re/code, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Business Insider, Digiday and The Wall Street Journal. While Read more [...]

House prices 2015: UK first-time buyers hit in buoyant August

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Further evidence of a supply shortage fuelling runaway house prices was provided by property website Rightmove, which is recording the shallowest dip in asking prices for the usually quiet month of August for eight years. The Times reports the figures show a decrease across the UK of just 0.8 per cent, "compared with an average August fall after the credit crunch of 1.5 per cent". Sky News adds this is the strongest price performance for the month since 2007 "when there was a 0.6 per Read more [...]

John Puttick Associates wins competition for £13 million Preston Bus Station …

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New York practice John Puttick Associates has won the competition to redevelop the Brutalist 1960s bus station in Preston, England, with a design that features a rooftop football pitch, a climbing wall and a skate park. John Puttick Associates was selected through a RIBA-run competition to overhaul Preston Bus Station, which was designed in the 1960s by Keith Ingham and Charles Wilson of architecture firm BDP. The £13 million scheme will include the preservation of the Read more [...]

Mid-tier firms avoid listed audits as high regulatory fees bite

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MID-TIER accountancy firms have hit out at what they believe are restrictive and prohibitive financial hurdles to entering the listed audit market, including excessive fees imposed on them by the ICAEW. Matthew Lee, managing partner of Bishop Fleming, the £17.5m turnover West Country practice, is one of a growing band of similarly sized firms that are unhappy with the current fee structure. With offices in Bristol, Worcester, Bath, Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay Read more [...]