Halifax's latest housing industry data - which suggests that the price of property increased 2.6 per cent in May - "appears to have more legs" than other similar findings over the last 21 months.

British property owners are "good at thinking creatively" when it comes to property development, according to Claire Barrett, editor of Grand Designs Magazine.

Just one week after Nationwide Building Society suggested that house prices increased 1.2 per cent in May, Halifax has reported a similar trend.

People in the UK are still willing to spend thousands of pounds on home improvement projects, according to one industry expert.

An increasing number of people are looking to renovate their properties, according to the editor of a leading publication in the home improvement industry.

With the current economic crisis emerging into something bigger than anyone could have expected, it is becoming evident that the recession is global, and bound to touch every nation involved in the free market economy including the French Property Market.

Tentatively indicating that a significant correction to Poland's balance of payments is underway, the latest data for February show a EUR525mn current account surplus. This was the first monthly surplus since September 2006 and marked the largest positive outturn since

On May 25, Kazakhstan's security service, the KNB - successor to the Soviet-era KGB - arrested the head of the country's state uranium company. Mukhtar Dzhakishev, the long-serving head of Kazatomprom (one of the world's largest uranium producers), has been

A senior member of the Republican Party of Armenia, Samuel Nikoyan, was elected as one of the two deputy speakers of the National Assembly on May 19. The position was recently vacated by Hrayr Karapetian, a leader of the Armenian

According to the latest opinion poll conducted by TNS OBOP, Poland's ruling Civic Platform (PO) party maintains a strong lead over the opposition, with approximately 50% of the electorate intending to vote for the party in the next parliamentary election.

On May 28, the Czech Senate (upper house of parliament) voted in favour of dissolving the Chamber of Deputies (lower house), paving the way for early parliamentary elections in October. The Chamber had voted in favour of early dissolution on

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A further step in the unbundling of the local loop: Swisscom is presenting a package offering bitstream access to interested telecoms providers. The package costs from CHF 11.40 per month and will be implemented in November 2009.

What's onThere's plenty to keep the feet tapping this summer in Wiltshire. The Marlborough Jazz Festival (marlboroughjazz .co.uk) leads the way, from 10 to 12 July, featuring old favourites and up-and-coming names including YolanDa Brown and her Trio and The

Last time I was in Venice, I was sitting at La Cusina, a restaurant with its terrace right on the Grand Canal - so close, in fact, that you can chat to the gondolieri as they tout for trade.

Why visit? Helsinki is at its most splendid as summer arrives, heralding long days to enjoy what Finland does best: the great outdoors.