A Lochee church is to be converted into 16 homes, with Dundee City Council set to approve the plans next week. A meeting of the development management committee on Monday is set to accept a planning application to turn Lochee Old and St Luke’s Parish Church, a B-listed building situated on Bright Street, into 11 residential units, with a further five terraced houses being built on the accompanying land. A report by director of city development Mike Galloway gave details of the proposals. If approved, Read more [...]

Comments (0) A SNOWBOARDER from Plymouth has been listed as 'one to watch' in 2015-16 by the International Paralympic Committee in the run-up to the new season.Ben Moore, 29, has been included among a list of 16 international para-athletes by the IPC, have made his way almost to the very top of the sport.Moore is one of three listed under the snowboard-upper limb (SB-UL) category, as he is without the use of his left arm due to a motorbike accident a decade ago.He Read more [...]

A county councillor is campaigning for the restoration of a grade II listed bridge in Bury St Edmunds which has been left to decay for years. Cllr Trevor Beckwith said he originally contacted Suffolk County Council in January to let it know about the bridge’s bad state of repair after the Eastgate Ward Community Association got in contact with him. But after an inspection, engineers just cemented over the cracks - even using the wrong colour cement. Eastgate Bridge is in a bad Read more [...]

Regeneration work on a Roehampton estate will go ahead, after the Secretary of State refused an application to protect a block of flats. Wandsworth Council intended to work on Allbrook House and Roehampton Library, as part of the Alton area regeneration, but this was delayed because of an application to have the buildings listed for architectural or historic interest. A report by Historic England says the house and library has "poorly resolved urban context" and internally, Read more [...]

By Tariro Mzezewa NEW YORK (Reuters) - MSCI will add Alibaba Group, Baidu.com and a dozen other overseas-listed Chinese shares to its emerging market index beginning on Dec. 1, in a move that is expected to draw billions of dollars into the stocks and make MSCI the first indexer to include these shares. Alibaba , with a market value of nearly $200 billion (£131.48 billion), is the largest of the U.S.-listed names to be added to the index. It, along with Baidu Inc , Read more [...]

A London landlord has barred 800 local campaigners from his pub after they managed to get his property listed, making it harder for him to sell. Steve Coxshall, a former stockbroker that also managed the boyband Blue, said the campaigners, the Hampstead Neighbourhood Forum, were “hypocrites in cardigans”. Camden Council decided to the list the three-century-old Duke of Hamilton pub in Hampstead as an Asset of Community Value. Should Coxshall wish to sell the pub, Read more [...]

Sun Global Investments has teamed with Zyfin Holdings to launch the first Indian fixed income ETF available to UK investors. LAM Global ZyFin India Sovereign Enterprise Bond Ucits ETF will seek AAA opportunities in government-backed corporate bonds. Indian sovereign owned enterprises (SOEs) are corporations ‘of national interest’ in which the government owns a stake in excess of 51%. The fund aims to provide international investors with access to yields of around 7%, targeting Read more [...]

Richards family inundated with calls from Marks Spencer customersFamily's home number is listed on Google as being superstore's numberFather owns firm called MS Security Systems - causing confusion onlineFamily say they are being driven 'up the wall' by constant calls about store opening times, job possibilities, and people checking if goods are in stockBy Emma Glanfield for MailOnline Published: 10:35 GMT, 12 November 2015 | Updated: 12:02 GMT, 12 November 2015 Read more [...]

NEW YORKChinese stocks that trade on U.S.-listed exchanges were mostly lower on Wednesday, even as investors expect indexer MSCI to add some well-known company stocks to its emerging market indexes.Weak earnings, falling oil prices, and cautious comments from Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma caused China-based company shares to weaken a bit. Alibaba, one of the largest U.S.-listed Chinese companies, lost 1.8 percent.Indexes tracking overseas-listed shares, known as American Depository Receipts (ADR), Read more [...]

Council bosses in Harrogate should ask the public for new ideas about the future of the historic Crescent Gardens offices after it failed to sell the building, the opposition leader has said. Harrogate Borough Council revealed it has failed to sell the landmark Crescent Gardens office building after a deal with the preferred bidder, thought to be a hotel developer, fell through. The council has already started work building a new state-of-the-art office complex at Knapping Mount. In Read more [...]