Ambulance trust listed as one of the most gay-friendly healthcare organisations First published in News Last updated Read more [...]

Listed as “Kurt Cobain’s Private 1b + 1bth”, the apartment in LA’s Fairfax District was home to the couple in 1991-1992 when Cobain was most focused on song writing and painting and Love was pregnant with Frances Bean.The property's owner Brandon Kleinman claims Cobain wrote the song “Heart-Shaped Box” in the apartment’s bath. Kurt Cobain's former LA apartment doesn't get many visitors, according to its owner Cobain also decorated the walls in the living room and bedroom with murals, Read more [...]

Ambulance trust listed as one of the most gay-friendly healthcare organisations First published in News Last updated Read more [...]

Salcombe Harbour Authority listed the repossessed yacht on the auction site earlier this week, with bids rapidly increasing Credit: eBay A repossessed yacht in need of refurbishment has been listed on eBay for just 99p by Salcombe Harbour Authority. Christina, a 1964 Invicta 26, was repossessed in lieu of harbour dues and posted on the online auction site on 21 April. Credit: eBay Since then, she’s attracted a fair amount of attention with Read more [...]

If you want to live like Kurt Cobain but don’t have the spare $400,000 to buy his Washington childhood home, you’re in luck. An LA apartment that the Nirvana frontman shared with Courtney Love a few years before he died has been listed on short-term rental website Airbnb, at the price of about £760 ($1,140) per week or £200 a night. Cobain and Love lived in the Fairfax flat from 1991 to 1992, during the height of Nirvana’s fame – according to the apartment’s current tenant Brandon Kleinman, Read more [...]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Earnings growth at China-listed companies is likely to be the slowest in three years in 2015, in line with an economy the government expects to expand at the weakest rate in a quarter of a century. Reuters surveyed analyst estimates of full-year net profit at 704 Shanghai- and Shenzhen-listed firms that recently booked 2014 earnings, and found average growth for 2015 of 7 percent. That compared with 7.7 percent in 2014 and a spike of 18 percent in 2013.Driving the decline Read more [...]

The Manchester Evening News and our sister paper, the Macclesfield Express have been short-listed for prestigious press awards. The Society of Editors Regional Press Awards are designed to celebrate the best in British regional and local journalism. The MEN has two entries in a short-list of six for the Campaign of the Year. They include the astonishing achievement which stemmed from our coverage of a fire at the Manchester Dogs' Home. Around 60 animals were killed with hundreds others having to Read more [...]

The north west’s listed businesses have continued to perform well on the public markets, adding more than £300m to stabilise their collective market capitalisation in the first quarter of 2015. Data from Deloitte’s North West Share Index reveals businesses in the region grew at an average of 1.25 per cent in the first three months of the year. This follows the region’s end to 2014, which saw the collective market cap grow by £2.2bn. The strongest performing company so far this year is molecular Read more [...]

LISTED BUILDING: Miller Arcade in Preston, which could be converted into apartments A grade II listed building looks set to be converted into apartments and a restaurant, after plans were recommended for the green light. Callaway Estates Ltd has lodged an application to convert the upper floors of the Miller Arcade in Preston into 45 studio apartments with a decked roof garden. The proposed development would deliver Read more [...]

A group of war memorials commemorating the men who died a century ago in the Gallipoli campaign have been listed or upgraded to mark the anniversary. The campaign, a fruitless attempt to dislodge Turkish forces from the heights overlooking the Dardanelles straits, left at least 200,000 casualties among the Allies and Ottomans. The memorials have been listed or upgraded by Historic England in time for 25 April, the centenary of the landing on the Gallipoli beaches under raking fire from the Turks, Read more [...]