South East
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Wife of businessman fails in bid to keep family home
The wife of a Surrey businessman today failed in an appeal court bid to save the couples home in Tadworth from being repossessed by National Westminster Bank.
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Esporta in possible talks with Healthland
Esporta is in talks to buy the Healthland club in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, according to the City rumour mill. Ernst & Young, the administrator of Healthland UK, is selling the…
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Mowlem loses patience over unpaid bell tower bill
A chaplain to the Queen faces legal action to recover £600,000 because his church has failed to pay John Mowlem for the worlds first fully-glazed bell tower it built at…
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Grateful patient helps fund new Oxford hospital building
Billionaire hotelier Michael Kadoorie has given £2.6m to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where he was treated for a shattered pelvis.
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Lords to consider airport noise case
Sussex businessman Graham Farley has asked the House of Lords for leave to challenge a Court of Appeal ruling that he could not claim damages from a surveyor who failed…
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Homestyle opens new-look Cheltenham store
Homestyle will open its first new-format outlet in Cheltenham on Saturday. Another 56 Harveys shops, which it bought in August, will be converted to Rosebys and Bensons for Beds.
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Prowting profits climb 23%
Prowting has reported a 23% lift in interim pretax profits to £11.9m on turnover up 11% to £102.5m. The City is predicted full-year pretax profits up from £24.2m to £27,2m.
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Hartford puts restaurants and sites up for sale
Hartford Group has put three London restaurants on the market and two development sites. They are Idaho in Highgate, Utah in Wimbeldon, Congress, in Westminster, a site in Ascot, Berkshire…
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Lords uphold ruling on development profits
The House of Lords has upheld a Court of Appeal judgment deciding that Braintree District Council were not entitled to claim most of the profits realised when a former council…
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Planning challenge over front door fails
The door of a listed building in the Cotswold town of Chipping Campden has been at the centre of a High Court dispute this week.
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Henderson buys i.t.@maidenhead building
Henderson Investors, acting for the National Provident Life Fund, has paid Juno Properties £9.75m for i.t.@maidenhead at the Vanwall Business Park in Maidenhead.
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Hatfield crash puts Railtrack investment in spotlight
Railtracks investment in the rail network will come under the microscope again following yesterdays train disaster in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, in which four were killed and 33 injured.