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Mystery shopper’s takeover bid for WYG is ‘ill-timed’
Financial sources have branded the takeover approach for White Young Green as “ill-timed”.
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Grice’s appointment
Ian Grice, former chief executive of Alfred McAlpine, has been appointed non-executive chairman of wastewater firm Pims Group.
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Bullock’s profits up
Turnover at social housing group Bullock rose 12%, from £117m to £130.6m, in the year ended 30 September 2007.
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Kanvas sets sail
Willmott Dixon has launched a rebranded fit-out business after taking social housing arm Inspace back in-house for £148m in January.
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Building buys a pint … for the London leaders
Judging from the drinks tally you might be wondering what’s happened to the “Buys a pint” bit this week.
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CommentThe power of speeches
Odd business, public speaking. This week it raised Boris Johnson to the zenith of glory and cast a Mail man into the abyss of ignimony, while Caroline Flint used her special powers to evade the press
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NewsAddenbrookes Hospital: Hospital housing
Housing association Sanctuary has received detailed planning permission for this 100-apartment key-worker housing scheme on a car park in the grounds of Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge.
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Ashford approved
Ashford council, home of one of the government’s four planned growth areas has had its core strategy approved after long delays.
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Mortgages down
Gross mortgage lending fell by 19% in May from the previous year to £25.5bn, according to the Council for Mortgage Lenders.
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Change for Heart
Richard Clark, chief executive of major housing association Midland Heart is to step down to run a consultancy business for the Chartered Institute of Housing.
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NewsSwedish sustainable housing
Sweden has become something of a world laboratory for sustainable housing. So what can we learn from their experiments – apart from the fact that they’re light years ahead of ours?
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Tests and Trials
Jackie Sadek might find our pronouncements on the grocery retail sector a little less Kafkaesque if she read them properly (6 June, page 56).
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CommentFlash of inspiration
The recent flooding in the West Country brought the UK’s unpredictable weather onto the front pages again
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Griping back
In response to your article (Generation Gripe, 13 June, page 67), how disappointing that staying late at work is still viewed by some as the only sign of commitment.
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North of the border
Caroline Flint says England is a world leader in green building (13 June, page 62).
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Atkins cheers the engineering sector with 24% profit growth
Atkins has posted results for 2008 at the top end of City forecasts, thanks to rapid growth in the Middle East.