The last time David Patmore showed me his record collection, he reckoned he had around 20,000 LPs. Eight years on, as we edge our tightly-squeezed way around one of the garages where he stores them, he has upped the total to “pushing 30,000”. Garages? Yes, two of them, and a sturdy shed, all piled high with records, mainly classical, floor to ceiling, great skyscrapers of them, a Manhattan of music. “It’s an addiction,” he admits, slightly ruefully. “No Read more [...]

When Great Ormond Street’s grade II-listed chapel was hoisted into the air in one piece and replaced in a renovated hospital undamaged, it was just another world-first for the globally-renowned paediatric centre. St Christopher’s Chapel, built in 1875 replete with stained glass windows depicting the nativity and a floor said to be modelled on a pavement in Venice’s St Mark’s Square, was encased in a huge waterproof box before being moved in the late 1980s in what was thought to Read more [...]

SHANGHAI—Guo Guangchang became a billionaire by investing where China’s economy was going over the past two decades, pouring money into steel, property and finance while turning his gaze increasingly overseas.

On Friday, Mr. Guo indicated authorities are holding him in connection with an investigation, a stark illustration of how Chinese business and finance is coming under intense scrutiny.

After nearly two days of mystery…

Comments (0) One of Stoke-on-Trent's most iconic buildings is to be used by a school. Two-hundred students from Burslem's Haywood Sixth Form Academy will be moving into the town's School of Art from September. Now a £1.5 million refurbishment is to be carried out between February and July before the students move in. It comes as 100 sixth-formers from the academy are already taught at nearby Burslem Town Hall. Burslem School of Art Trust carried Read more [...]

Married same-sex partners in Arkansas won't be listed as equal parents on the birth certificates of their children after the state Supreme Court suspended a ruling on Thursday which would have allowed it on the basis of marriage equality, according to the Associated Press. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox had ruled that Arkansas' birth certificate law was unconstitutional citing the passage of marriage equality, according to the wire service. After this ruling, birth certificates with both parent's Read more [...]

SHANGHAI—Guo Guangchang became a billionaire by investing where China’s economy was going over the past two decades: in sectors like steel, property and finance and increasingly overseas. On Friday Mr. Guo indicated judicial authorities are holding him during an investigation, a stark illustration of how Chinese businesspeople are coming under intensifying scrutiny. After nearly two days of mystery over his whereabouts, a vague statement near midnight issued by his flagship investment Read more [...]

European Wealth has been forced to issue a profit alert after failing to attract the funds it initially forecast. In a statement to the stock market the AIM-listed firm said: 'Whilst the cross selling between the divisions of the group are showing a material improvement, many of the new revenue generators are taking longer to build an established client base than we had originally anticipated, which together with the subdued trading volumes in global stock markets has resulted in Read more [...]

SHANGHAI—Fosun Group halted trading in shares of its listed units on Friday, following a Chinese media report that its co-founder and chairman, high-profile billionaire Guo Guangchang, can’t be reached.

Shanghai-based Fosun, which has holdings that range from real estate in China and abroad, to banks to ownership of Club Med resorts, declined to comment on the report from Caixin, a Chinese business publication. A spokeswoman for…

Ianucci's American political comedy Veep has been nominated for best comedy or musical on TV. Outlander was short listed in three categories. Caitriona Balfe, who plays the lead role of time-crossed nurse Claire Randall in Outlander, has been nominated for best actress in a TV series or drama. Her fellow Outlander actor, Tobias Menzies, has been nominated for best actor in a limited series or TV movie. Outlander itself, based on the hugely successful books by Diana Gabaldon which Read more [...]

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