Archive for July, 2007
Cost of axing Scotland’s road bridge tolls put at 42 million
July 26th, 2007ABOLITION of bridge tolls in Scotland would cost at least 42 million, The Scotsman has learned.
Tolls have been removed from the Skye and Erskine bridges, and legislation to lift those on the Forth and Tay is due to be passed by the end of the year.
Paying off the remaining construction debt on the […]
Bids for unwritten Keith Richards autobiography reach 3.6m
July 26th, 2007His agent is calling it “the best rock’n’roll book of all time” and publishers obviously agree, as bids for Keith Richards’ autobiography reached a whopping $7.3m (3.6m) at an auction in New York this week.
Anticipation for the as-yet-unwritten memoirs has been building since May, when the Rolling Stone guitarist announced he was ready to put […]
BOOKING FACE TIME
July 26th, 2007July 15, 2007 — CBS digital guru Quincy Smith only arrived in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Thursday, but he wasted little time in getting down to business.
The former Allen & Co. banker, who’s hyper-connected to not only the established Silicon Valley players but also to the nascent ones, arrived at the Lounge bar around […]