Let these banks marry in haste and Britain will repent at leisure Nov 17, 2008
Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley were nationalized. The 17-billion being pumped into Lloyds and HBOS would give the government about 43 per cent of the merged bank. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Nigeria: As Financial Systems Crumble Across the Globe [editorial] Oct 20, 2008
Let not extreme options such as intervention through acquisition of equities in shaky financial institutions be excluded, for, as the U.K. demonstrated through its Treasury's guarantee to depositors of Northern Rock and, lately, the nationalisation of the assets of Bradford & Bingley, there is nothing sacrosanct about economic doctrines. The U.S. did the same through the takeover of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie May) by the Federal Reserve Bank, last month, and Merrill Lynch... (allAfrica.com)
U.K. banks squeezed by the hand that rescued them Oct 16, 2008
If we add to that RBS and the other two banks, Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley that are already languishing in a back room in the Treasury, the state has virtually nationalized the banking sector. In Brussels, there is unease and embarrassment. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
PAPER: Washington 'has surpassed Roosevelt's New Deal'... Oct 10, 2008
HB + OS Bradford + Bingley Alliance + Leicester Northern + Rock. Fannie + Mae Freddie + Mac Lehman + Brothers Merrill + Lynch Bearn + Sterns. (The Drudge Report)
Europe rules out bail-out fund over cash crunch Oct 6, 2008
Calls for European action follow the bail-out of both Bradford and Bingley in the UK and Fortis Bank by the governments of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Tools. (Guardian News, Nigeria)
European Governments Enact Bailouts Oct 3, 2008
In a move announced Monday, the U.K.'s ninth largest mortgage bank, Bradford and Bingley, will be nationalized, after a loss of investor and lender confidence caused it to succumb to the financial crisis. Bradford and Bingley is the second U.K. bank to be nationalized, after the British bank Northern Rock was taken over in February. (ABC News)
ProLogis to Develop Over One Million Square Feet for Leading UK Retailer Marks & Spencer Sep 23, 2008
"Marks er's new, state-of-the-art facility will be a flagship development for ProLogis in the UK," said Andrew Griffiths, managing director for ProLogis in the UK. "In addition to warehousing and office space, the building will include training rooms, onsite catering and staff facilities. We believe this development demonstrates our ability to deliver build-to-suit solutions on an unparalleled scale." Marks er's new facility will be developed at ProLogis Park Bradford, a 90-acre business park... (PR Newswire)
Revealed: UKs first official sharia Sep 15, 2008
It has now emerged that sharia courts with these powers have been set up in London, Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester with the network s headquarters in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Two more courts are being planned for Glasgow and Edinburgh. (Times Online)
Grant Wilkinson guilty of running one of Aug 28, 2008
Another was fired in Bradford during the robbery in which PC Sharon Beshenivsky was killed in 2005. Wilkinson, 34, was convicted at Reading Crown Court yesterday of nine firearm offences. (Times Online)
Big 12 - Will it be an Oklahoma-Missouri rematch? Aug 23, 2008
Offense - We all know the Oklahoma o-line is the best in the game and DeMarco Murray is the real deal, but can Sam Bradford repeat as the nation's number one quarterback. He led the country with a 176. (FOX23.com, OK)
British crime lords rule 40 billion Aug 9, 2008
Bradford is a centre for money laundering and a major distribution point for heroin by British-Pakistani gangs. Serious crime in Nottingham has been dominated by the Gunn family. (Times Online)
From Needham's Broadmeadow School to Mozambique Aug 7, 2008
Wed Aug 06, 2008, 12:33 PM EDT. When John Grabowski turns 50 this year, the occasion will be more momentous than a typical birthday. (Needham Tab, MA)
New Human Tissue Bank 'A Tremendous Research Resource' Jul 29, 2008
ScienceDaily (July 29, 2008) The University of Bradford has unveiled a new facility to provide UK biomedical researchers access to a wide range of human tissue and tissue products ... Leeds and Bradford Hospital Trusts, who currently provide tissue to the bank, work with patients and their families to provide information about the supply of tissue for research purposes and manage the consent procedures which underpin the bank s high ethical standards ... Dr Kevin Adams, Innovation Manager for... (Science Daily)
Size matters Jul 13, 2008
Zambia's Minister for Lands, Bradford Machila, acknowledges there is a problem. "The small farmers are a crucial part of the food basket in Zambia," he says. (BBC News -- Business)
Lenders could take stake in troubled B&B Jul 8, 2008
Britain's largest banks could be left with over a quarter of Bradford & Bingley , sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, as the troubled bank's shares headed further below the price of a planned rights issue. With pressure growing on regulators and the broader banking sector to avoid a repeat of the damaging collapse of rival lender Northern Rock last year, the sources said six clearing banks had agreed to back B&B's underwriters. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Cowdery bids to assume Bradford & Bingley control Jun 24, 2008
co.uk - Cowdery bids to assume Bradford ey control - Bradford ey, rights issue, Clive Cowdery ... Cowdery bids to assume Bradford ey control ... co.uk Clive Cowdery has launched an audacious 400m bid to take control of Bradford & Bingley (B&B), with a plan to use the company to consolidate the UKs smaller banks and lenders. (ifaonline.co.uk)
Paul McCartney at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool Jun 4, 2008
Sharon, Bradford, England. To answer your question Andy. (Times Online)
U.K. construction activity falls in May Jun 3, 2008
Bradford ey profits slump as it cuts the price of its rights issue and takes on a U.S. investor. The International Energy Agency calls for countries like China and India to slash fuel subsidies to help bring. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Big Brother database for phones and e-mails May 21, 2008
John Askha, Bradford, England. "don't care what information they have about me, because I don't have anything to hide. Lee McLennan" Too naive. (Times Online)
20 mph limit for urban streets to cut road deaths May 17, 2008
I hope not because I work in Bradford and would NOT want to live in the dump. Mark, Yorkshire. (Times Online)
Cigarettes to be sold under shop counters Mar 27, 2008
Patricia Kenny, Bradford, Uk. It will not make any difference what so ever if kids are going to smoke they will no matter what we do or say but it could mean that they will get them by going to there nearest drug dealer and getting them i remember when i started smoking aged 12 years old i used to pinch them out of my mother's packet of fags also i got friends and family to buy them for me and my parents did not know i smoked until i was 17 years old if i was 12 year old now and they sold fags... (Times Online)
Forced Marriages and Unforeseen Consequences Feb 25, 2008
Take for example the town of Bradford. Located up north in Yorkshire, halfway between England s east and west coasts, Bradford s population is a relatively modest 240,000 ... Last year, 250 -- yes -- two hundred and fifty -- girls between the ages of 13 and 16 left their classrooms in Bradford and never returned to school. (Human Events Online)
Huge crystal baffles chemists Jan 24, 2008
If the interior of the particles is 'mobile' then they are not crystals, says Frank Leusen, a crystallographer at Bradford University, UK. And are they molecules. Some say yes, others are not so sure. (Nature News Service)
Chefs chicken protest hurts farmers Jan 10, 2008
David, Bradford, England. I just think it is a real shame that again, it takes two celebrities to create an awareness of how ill treated these creatures are. (Times Online)
Teddy teacher moved to secret location after angry mob calls for her execution Dec 5, 2007
sheena, Bradford, U.K.. Has anyone considered that this result might have been a compromise by an enlightened and independent judiciary. (Yahoo News -- Sudan)
Gloom-and-Doomers Wrong on U.S. "Moral Collapse" Nov 28, 2007
We prefer to think of William Bradford, the long time leader of the Pilgrim Separatists and for thirty years the elected governor of Plymouth Colony, as a courageous man of faith who calmly overcame every obstacle to establish his profoundly significant settlement in the Massachusetts wilderness. Some twenty-five years after taking shore at Plymouth Rock, however, Bradford himself became the first major American commentator to see evidence of deadly moral decay and a betrayal of his societys... (Townhall.com)
African Farmer and World Agricultural Leader Announced as President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Nov 14, 2007
He earned masters and doctorate degrees in agronomy from Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y. Ngongi went on to earn a postgraduate certificate in agricultural and rural development project planning from the University of Bradford, in the United Kingdom. Early in his career, Ngongi worked with village farmers for Cameroon's Ministry of Agriculture. (allAfrica.com)
Origins of idioms Nov 9, 2007
Much used in relation to the late 1980s spate of disasters in the United Kingdom (Bradford City football ground fire, Zeebrugge ferry overturning, Piper Alpha oil-rig explosion, Kings Cross Tube fire, Hillsborough football stadium crowd deaths). Ace in the hole: A hidden advantage or secret source of power. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Government should be indicted, not in charge Oct 25, 2007
One tenth of the United Kingdom s 35,000,000 kg of wool clip goes to China, where it is processed for 8p a kilo, in contrast to 22p in Bradford, and then is re-imported, often as a carpet. That seems bizarre until you consider that a container to China costs only a few hundred pounds, because British wool travels on tax-free fuel. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Black people 'less intelligent' scientist claims Oct 20, 2007
Malcol,m McLean, Bradford, UK. So where does one start. (USA Today -- Tech)
Migrants in Britain - the official verdict Oct 17, 2007
Go to Birmingham, Luton, Bradford or Leeds to name just a few. "White Flight" is taking place. (Times Online)
Visitors discover Freedom Sep 17, 2007
"Why did the revolution begin in Boston ?" asked Mike Bradford, a Boston National Historical Park Interpretation Division park ranger ... "I noticed that Bradford said 'independence' a lot," Xia said ... "When Bradford talked about Paul Revere using lanterns for signals to warn people about the invading British , I was like, 'Woah, I learned that in 6th grade,'" he said. (Boston University Daily Free Press, MA)
Move to quell Northern Rock fears Sep 15, 2007
" Other bank shares fell on Friday, with Bradford ey, Alliance ster and HBOS down nearly 8%, 7% and 4% respectively. House builders were also hit, with companies like Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey, Bovis Homes and Berkeley Group falling around 6% and more. The London stockmarket's benchmark index, the FTSE 100, at one point dropped more than 2.2% before recovering during the afternoon. The index closed at 6,289 - a loss of 74 points or 1.17%. WHAT'S HAPPENING AT NORTHERN ROCK? Mortgage lending... (BBC News -- UK)
Get the messageIt's time to switch off reality TV and tune into the real world Aug 29, 2007
DaveDavid Stevens, Bradford. "So, why don't we know what's going on in the world?" The most important answer to this is that we don't want to know. (BBC News -- Science)
* World News Quick Take Jul 26, 2007
Three students from Bradford University and London schoolboy Mohammed Irfan Raja were caught after Raja left a note for his parents saying he was going to fight abroad. Raja, 18, had been communicating and exchanging material with the others -- Aitzaz Zafar, 20, Usman Ahmed Malik, 21, and Akbar Butt, 20 -- on the Internet and went to stay with them in northern England in February. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Banks to fight Borsas move on MTS Jun 22, 2007
FT.com / Companies / Financial services - Banks to fight Borsas move on MTS. Financial Times FT.com. (FT.com -- Markets)
Cadbury to cut 7500 jobs as part of strategy revamp Jun 19, 2007
FT.com / Companies / Consumer industries - Cadbury to cut 7,500 jobs as part of strategy revamp. Financial Times FT.com. (Financial Times)
Finder: Mars' Clark could inspire cell phone law Jun 17, 2007
He's at the middle school where he used to teach, memorialized by a Bradford pear tree planted with the help of the red-headed, blue-eyed son born four months after the accident. He's at the wrestling room on a plaque and inside the gym in the form of a wrestling tournament bearing his name. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
Daily pill to beat genetic diseases Apr 26, 2007
A pill that can correct a wide range of faulty genes which cause crippling illnesses should be available within three years, promising a revolution in the treatment of thousands of conditions. The drug, known as PTC124, has already had encouraging results in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis. (Times Online)
Hostage fears over troops seized by Iran Mar 24, 2007
Dariush, bradford, uk ... " Looks like he's going to need an appendix when the Iranians get finished with Her Majesty's Navy.Owen, Princeton, NJ, USA This is brinksmanship, no different than what North Korea does really. Iran can do what it does because they expect others to behave rationally. They will be much worse when they have the bomb. I think the only solution is to build a wall between the Middle East and the rest of the world...east is east, and west is west, etc.Lud Kissell, Chicago,... (Times Online)
Transcript of the IMF Book Forum on Global Governance Reform: Breaking the Stalemate Mar 9, 2007
Featured Speakers: Colin I. Bradford, Jr. Johannes F. Linn, Brookings Institution ... So, throwing themselves into this pool of debates, we have Colin Bradford and Johannes Linn, who have just recently edited the book that's being discussed today ... His coauthor or co-editor, I guess, Colin Bradford, has an equally distinguished background. (IMF News)
JOIN THE DEBATE Supercasinos - good or bad news? Send us your views Jan 31, 2007
Malcolm McLean, Bradford, UK. It's a free country - If you don't want to go to a casino don't go to one. (TimesOnline)
Albert leaves Sharks in a hurry Jan 10, 2007
" The Titans play their first trial on February 17 against Melbourne in Coffs Harbour. They will have two more games in which to gel as a team - against Parramatta and Penrith - before taking on St George Illawarra in their NRL premiership debut at Suncorp Stadium on March 18. New Zealand halfback Robbie Paul, meantime, has revised his plans to retire at the end of the British season after being rejuvenated by his move to Huddersfield last year. "A couple of years ago, I was thinking I'd be... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
JOIN THE DEBATE Is divorce better for children than living with warring parents? Jan 9, 2007
Malcolm McLean, Bradford, UK. I also must back up the findings of this report. (London Times Online)
