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expressed fears that overseas assay workers would not apply the same level of due diligence as those working in the UK. catalogue on sale. Buyers were being sought for a portion of the rights of 136 songs, including famous tracks like Breaking The Law and Living After Midnight, said to be worth between £250,000 and £300,000 a year.
The move followed the administration of Ken Downing Ltd, the company owned by former Judas Priest guitarist and co-founder Ken ‘KK’ Downing. NEW life is set to be breathed into a former city council office block after it was announced in May that a property group wanted to convert it into a hotel.
Native is behind the project to turn Louisa Ryland House into a new aparthotel.
The grade-II complex is a cluster of three Victorian buildings behind Birmingham’s iconic Council House but they have been empty since they were sold for development in 2014.
It is hoping to create 173 ‘aparthotel’ units, where the rooms have kitchenette facilities, alongside ground-floor space for a restaurant, coffee shop, fitness studio and drop-in office facilities.