Submitted by howardlake on 27 January, 2008 - 21:26.
The Birmingham Post has published its list of the 50 wealthiest people in Birmingham. In the past year the minimum wealth required to appear on the list has risen from £50 million to £60 million.
At the top are four billionaires, with last year's ranking appearing in brackets:
1. (1) John Caudwell £1.65 bn (£1.65 bn)
2. (16) Lord Paul of Marylebone & family £1.5bn (£350m)
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Submitted by howardlake on 27 January, 2008 - 16:52.
The Tesco Charity Trust has made a grant of £2,000 a partnership of Mencap, Mendip District Council and the Beckery Resource Centre in Glastonbury to provide courses for people with learning disabilities to improve their fitness and develop their own leisure skills. The grant came from the Trust's community awards scheme.
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Submitted by johnbaguley on 27 January, 2008 - 15:14.
Puzzle number one: Our Gallic hero didn’t set the money on fire, so it went somewhere. If, as claimed, it contributed to stock market falls; why didn’t its re-appearance in someone else’s pocket set up an equal an opposite rise in stock market prices? www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7208439.stm
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