Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Housing and also in Local Government Tuesday 11th August 2015 - 9:59am Architects' favourite 'brutalist' London council block faces demolition Tower Hamlets Council has welcomed the government's decision not to grant the controversial Robin Hood Gardens housing estate listed building status. The estate, built in the late 1960s by the brutalist architects Read more [...]

A DERELICT listed building was gutted by a fire today. Fire fighters were called to tackle a blaze at Sandford Lodge, near Boddam at 2.30am. Six crews fought the fire at the Grade B listed property for more than five hours. Six fire crews, a height vehicle and a water carrier attended the incident. A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: “It was quite an extensive fire, our crews were still on the scene at 6am with crews damping down. “We sent two crews from Peterhead Read more [...]

NEW YORK Aug 10 The Standard Poor's 500 will soon contain 505 listed stocks, up from the current 502 listed stocks.SP Dow Jones Indices, which oversees the benchmark index of large U.S. stocks, on Monday announced a methodology change that will cause three more companies to have multiple listings: Comcast Corp, News Corp and Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. The change follows a move made in January to allow multiple share classes in SP indexes. It will take effect after the close Read more [...]

China Fiber Optic Network System has become the third Hong Kong-listed firm in two weeks to have been accused of cooking its books. The Shijiazhuang, Hebei province-based firm, which makes fibre optic patch cords used in the telecommunications industry, requested the stock exchange halt trading of its shares on Monday morning after anonymous company researchers and short-seller Emerson Analytics published a report targeting China Fiber Optic. "It has been exaggerating its revenue, and therefore profit Read more [...]