Gateley reported today profits before tax for the six months ended 31 October 2015 of £2.9m, up 11.5 per cent from £2.6m in 2014. The law firm, which started trading on Aim in June, also revealed that revenue had increased to £29.6m, a rise of 10.9 per cent from £26.7m the same time last year. The firm has also advised on 123 corporate deals during the period, compared to 117 in 2014, with a total value of over £970m. Meanwhile, staff numbers at the firm have also Read more [...]

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Comments (0) ASK someone to name a listed building in Crawley and they will probably think of somewhere like Ifield Water Mill or St Nicholas Church. Listed status can be given to buildings which are considered to be of historic importance to protect them from demolition or alteration. But it isn’t just really well known old buildings that are listed. To prove the point, reporter RACHEL BARR takes us through ten of the more unlikely buildings and structures Read more [...]

A Horsham grandmother is in the running to take the title of Best Neighbour in the UK. Frances Waring, who lives at Anchor’s Chesterton Court in Manor Fields, was nominated by her neighbours for always going the extra mile to help.Almost 300 nominations were sent in for the Happy Living Awards run by Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit care and housing provider. The awards were launched in August with six categories: Green Fingered Customer, Best Read more [...]

One of the most impressive churches built in the UK in the mid 20th century, the redbrick fortress of St Bride’s Roman Catholic church, has been awarded a £40,000 grant to help restore it to its original appearance. The church has been described as a Scottish version of the then fashionable “brutalist” style, usually in concrete, but executed in red brick in 1962-3 by the influential architectural firm Gillespie, Kidd and Coia in the post-war new town of East Kilbride. It has won many architecture Read more [...]

The next big thing appears to be just around the corner.Mark Driscoll is listed as a director of recently registered The Trinity Church in Phoenix, along with Randall Taylor and Jimmy Evans. The address is the same UPS store listed as the Mark Driscoll Ministries address (the church has a different box number):Mark Driscoll Ministries21001 North Tatum Blvd Ste 1630-527Phoenix, AZ 85050Click here for the Articles of Incorporation. According to the incorporation document, The Trinity Church will Read more [...]

Next week the seventh episode of George Lucas's famed space saga will be released on a wave of hype and eager anticipation. Star Wars: The Force Awakens no longer has Lucas at the helm, the man with the Jar Jar Binks way with words having passed his company to Disney and the creative mantle to others, in the first instance JJ Abrams. We can expect homage and nostalgia accompanied by a frisson of fresh faces and new tricks. It ought to be a blast.But for whom, exactly? Star Wars was a groundbreaking Read more [...]

One of the most impressive churches built in the UK in the mid 20th century, the redbrick fortress of St Bride’s Roman Catholic church, has been awarded a £40,000 grant to help restore it to its original appearance. The church has been described as a Scottish version of the then fashionable “brutalist” style, usually in concrete, but executed in red brick in 1962-3 by the influential architectural firm Gillespie, Kidd and Coia in the post-war new town of East Kilbride. It has won many architecture Read more [...]

Step inside the beautiful Grade II listed Lyceum - the stunning building that dominates the bottom end of Bold Street in Liverpool city centre. Built between 1800 and 1802, the site has a colourful history - with past uses including a library, a bar and a post office. Most of the building now lies unoccupied, with only the Co-op bank currently on-site. Locked away behind security fencing the huge chambers of the spectacular building host a series of fascinating features. From classical-style paintings Read more [...]

Benchmark Holdings, which operates numerous sustainable biotechnology and agriculture companies, will tomorrow announce its takeover of fish food business Inve Aquaculture from Royal Bank of Scotland and Rabobank. AIM-listed Benchmark paid $342m (£225m) – $300m in cash and the rest in shares – for Inve, which manufactures nutrition and health products for shrimp nurseries in 70 countries. The acquisition, which has been three years in the pipeline, was funded by Read more [...]