The Irish Independent says the value of Dublin pubs which changed hands in the first six months of the year reached €78m, as an increasing number of premises were sold for redevelopment.
The paper says around 18 Dublin pubs were sold in the first half of 2006 and a further five premises changed hands in July. [...]

The Irish Times reports that Fairyhouse racecourse, home of the Irish Grand National, has taken the first step towards selling part of its lands and redeveloping its facilities.
The paper says the course has asked Meath County Council to rezone land it owns next to the racetrack for commercial and residential development.
The track’s owner, Fairyhouse Club [...]

UK Auction Info
Traders from across the UK descended on Hopes Auction Mart at Wigton yesterday for its summer sale of horses and ponies.
The high temperatures were felt in the crowded ring as more than 80 lots went under the hammer. One of the highest prices reached was 2,200 guineas for an eight-year-old skewbald mare from [...]

UK Auction Info
Arsenal’s Highbury Stadium will stage its final event tomorrow when 600 items, including goalposts and a waxwork image of former coach George Graham, are auctioned before the soccer venue is turned into luxury apartments.
Locker-room clothes hooks, dugout benches and chairs from the coach’s office will also go under the hammer a week after [...]

Sophos has revealed that over 75% of all phishing emails are targeting users of PayPal or eBay.
Experts at SophosLabs scanned all phishing email messages received in the company’s global network of spam traps during 2006, and have revealed that 54.3% were attempting to steal information from users of PayPal. The second most common targets, at [...]