Monthly Archives: September 2015

Renewed bid to build homes near listed cottages

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A developer has renewed its bid to build new houses overlooking two of Blackpool’s oldest properties. Newfield Construction was refused planning permission in February for eight houses on land bounded by Fishers Lane, Common Edge Road and Ecclesgate Road, Marton. Developers are only interested in making money Blackpool Council’s planning committee turned down the application on the grounds of fears over flooding and the need to protect the historic cottages on Fishers Lane Read more [...]

New York Fashion Week Events

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There are certain things during New York Fashion Week — the death-defying schedule, Alexander Wang’s parties, Marc Jacobs’ punctuality, Michael Kors’ glitzy front row — that are a given. This season, anticipation is high for Riccardo Tisci’s invasion from Paris with a big-scale Givenchy show. Then there’s the debut of the Public School guys for DKNY, a star turn-movie premiere from Jeremy Scott and a first collection from Lady Gaga stylist Brandon Maxwell. Read more [...]

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has ‘Spartan lifestyle’, official declares

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The wealth declaration of Nigeria’s new president, Muhammadu Buhari, lists $150,000 in his personal account, which is contrary to what many might have expected of a former head of state of Nigeria and one who has held a number of top government positions. In the declaration, which Garba Shehu, a senior special assistant in charge of media and publicity for the president, claimed to reveal the leader had been living “an austere and Spartan lifestyle”, president Muhammadu Buhari stated that Read more [...]

Net-a-Porter’s listed status cramped Natalie Massenet’s style

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The former journalist shocked the fashion world on Wednesday night by walking away from the business she set up 15 years ago – weeks before the completion of a £1bn merger with its Italian e-commerce competitor Yoox.Ms Massenet, who has made £100m from selling Net-a-Porter shares, is expected to launch a new company over the next few months, although it is unlikely to be a direct rival. Sources close to her said she had decided on holiday that she was “an entrepreneur at heart” and did not Read more [...]

CHC Group Receives Continued Listing Standard Notice from NYSE

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CHC Group (NYSE:HELI; the “Company”), the parent company of CHC Helicopter, today announced that on August 28, 2015, the Company was notified by the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) that the Company is not in compliance with the NYSE’s continued listing standards as the Company failed to maintain an average global market capitalization greater than $50 million over a 30 trading-day period and stockholders’ Read more [...]

PR-B Family Center: September events listed

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• Volunteers needed: Volunteers are needed to help make tamales on Tuesdays from 4:30-6 p.m. Volunteers are also needed to sell tamales on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the latest or for part of the shift. Call the family center if interested.• Pine River Area Food Shelf: Emergency food shelf hours are Tuesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m.-1 p.m., and the second Tuesday of the month the food shelf will be open from 3:30-6 p.m. The food shelf is located in the Pine River-Backus Family Center.• Read more [...]

Mobster’s former Miami Beach home listed for sale

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Chuck Delmonico’s former Miami Beach home A waterfront home formerly belonging to alleged mobster Chuck Delmonico has been listed for $8.1 million, The Real Deal has learned. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom home is in Miami Beach’s San Marco Island, and includes marble floors, an open balcony and a Florida room, according to listing agent Julian Johnston. Johnston, of Calibre International Realty, said the Venetian Islands property is being sold for the land, and the listing reads, “build Read more [...]

£520 for a Wolverhampton house – or take 10 for £5200

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And that is exactly what someone bought in 1947 - '10 villa residences' in Wolverhampton for the bargain price of just £5,200.In today's money and accounting for inflation the properties in Ridge Lane, Wednesfield would still have been an incredible bargain at just £19,436.42.These 10 villa residences in Ridge Lane, Wednesfield, once sold for £5,200The ES piece from 1947 revealing the job lot of houses for £5,200The rock bottom sum was revealed in a fragile copy of the Express Star Read more [...]