Monthly Archives: January 2016

Community event cancellations | Submit your listing

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Here is a list of events that have been cancelled this weekend.Only events submitted to Action News are listed. Check back as new listings are added.If you have an event to add to this list, use the form on this page to submit the information.EVENT CANCELLATIONS:-ArtsQuest is cancelling or postponing its programming at SteelStacks and the Banana Factory this Saturday including the Improv Comedy Festival. The Comedy Festival, originally set for Jan. 21-22 at the ArtsQuest Center, 101 Founders Read more [...]

Timepage: A Beautiful and Clever Calendar App

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Although I'm sure Moleskine has crossed your radar once or twice in the past, it most likely was for its collection of notebooks, diaries, or pencils. But you may be unfamiliar with Moleskine Timepage, a calendar app that is a step away from the traditional Moleskine image. Through some interesting features and a beautiful interface, there's a good chance that you'll be keeping Moleskine's app development division on your radar. Week View Despite Timepage's name, I'd be more inclined Read more [...]

CHANGING PLACES: Find out the new uses for 11 pubs across the Bradford …

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OLD pubs across Bradford are being given a new lease of life in a variety of imaginative ways with a 11 applications granted for conversions in the last year alone. Houses, flats and restaurants are common re-uses, but in Bradford, shops, a madrassa, an outreach project catering for homeless people, and a nursery are recent examples. Danielle Dixon runs day nurseries across the district and has converted former pubs three times, finding the space provided by old public Read more [...]

Campaigners will try to get listed status for building earmarked for student flats

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Campaigners hope to get a Liverpool city centre roller rink building listed to protect it from plans to knock it down for student accommodation. Love Canning, a forum representing those who live in the Georgian Quarter , is set to apply for the community asset listing after supporters met to discuss proposals for the old Rodney Youth Centre. If they are successful the site, on the Mulberry Street/Myrtle Street junction, would be afforded extra protection against efforts to demolish it. Around Read more [...]

KPMG and PwC dominate listed audit market

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BIG FOUR rivals KPMG and PwC have dominated the listed audit market over the last decade, according to the 2015 corporate adviser ranking guide. Over the last ten years, KPMG has ousted PwC from top spot by way of client numbers, though PwC remains by far and away the most successful auditor when judged by the aggregate market-cap of its clients. Deloitte and EY retained their respective standings over the ten-year period, but with greatly reduced client counts. The Read more [...]

Bats and mud hold up work on old War Memorial Hospital development

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Demolition work at Melton’s former War Memorial Hospital site looks set to begin in March despite bats and muddy conditions holding up progress. As previously reported in the Melton Times plans to build 98 homes at the site on Ankle Hill have already been approved, subject to conditions, by the borough council’s planning committee.Birmingham-based developer Projects 2000 Ltd intends to build 40 homes as well as a block of 38 retirement apartments on the site. It Read more [...]

CHANGING PLACES: Former pubs get new leases of life in a variety of guises

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OLD pubs across Bradford are being given a new lease of life in a variety of imaginative ways with almost a dozen applications granted for conversions in the last 12 months alone. Houses, flats and restaurants are common re-uses, but in Bradford, shops, a madrassa, an outreach project catering for homeless people, and a nursery are recent examples. Danielle Dixon runs day nurseries across the district and has converted former pubs three times, finding the space provided Read more [...]

Apartment complex for listed bank given green light

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PROPOSALS to build a five-storey apartment complex at the former Lloyds Bank site opposite Poole Civic Centre have been agreed by council planning chiefs. Chessland Estates wants to demolish the existing buildings at 1-3 Commercial Road, and build 50 new residential units and retail space. Developers will remove the buildings onsite - a car showroom, a maintenance workshop, and the majority of the Lloyds building - while retaining the facade Read more [...]

A perfect fusion of heritage and vision at Belfast’s Belvoir Park

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Following the unprecedented success of the opening phase of new homes at Belvoir Park last spring (potential buyers queuing from 5am hit the headlines), UK developer Neptune Group is planning the release of a new collection of luxury three to five bedroom homes in the Shaw’s Bridge development on Friday February 5. This exciting new phase will include the sympathetic conversion of two of the original Grade II listed pavilions into six stunning Read more [...]