South West
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BS Group sells Eastgate retail park and Bristol Rovers stadium for £19m
Property and greyhound racing company BS Group has sold its Bristol stadium and adjoining Eastgate retail park to Ikea for £19m.
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IKEA pays BS Group £19m for Bristol Greyhound Stadium
IKEA has bought the freehold of the Bristol Greyhound Stadium and the adjoining Eastgate Retail Park at Jctn 2 of the M32 at Bristol for £19m from BS Group.
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Cornwall bids for Millennium funds to revive region
Cornwall is bidding for Millennium funds to revive its flaggingindustries. One plan, sponsored by Exeter University, wants to build an£87m campus near Penzance.
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Stonehenge make a PFI bid for £41m lottery cash
Stonehenge yesterday made the first application for lotteryfunding under the private finance initiative. English Heritage has submitted a bid to the Lottery-funded Millennium Commission for £41m with which to complete…
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European Union grants extra £22.56m for urban renewal in the UK.
The European Union has allocated £22.56m (29.3m ECU) from its URBAN structural fund programme for the regeneration of inner city areas in London, Birmingham and Swansea.
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Ascot offloads last of its UK hotels for £325,000
Ascot Holdings has sold the last of its UK hotels, the Strand, in Bude, Cornwall, for £325,000. It has also completed four further UK property disposals and a land sale…
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London Auction partners split after five years
Nelson Bakewell, which for the last five years has run the London Auction with Hartnell Taylor Cook, is launching its own saleroom service.
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EXCLUSIVE Bank of England puts 100,000 sq ft Gloucester office up for sale
The Bank of England is putting a 9,290 sq m (100,000 sq ft) office block on Southgate Street in Gloucester on the market as part of a downsizing operation.
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Japanese computer firm search for new West Country HQ
A mystery Japanese computer firm has launched a search for a new UK headquarters along the M4 between Swindon and Bristol.
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Commercial estate agents report the feel-good factor
Commercial estate agents are feeling good and the feel-goodfactor is spread across the regions. Agents in central London,Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol and Southampton are doingwell.
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Co-op sells three South West stores
Three substantial Co-op stores in the south-west have been sold to large superstore chains in the last fortnight. Sainsbury has bought two Plymco stores from the Plymouth and South Devon…
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Sun Life signs first leisure investment deal
Sun Life Assurance has taken its first step into the leisure investment market, paying THI £22.5m for two part-built schemes in Bristol and Bexleyheath, Kent.