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American Hotel Liquidators buys and resells furniture from high-end hotels. | Courtesy of American Hotel Liquidators From hotel suite to home sweet home. Nashville-based business American Hotel Liquidators is opening a store in Louisville to sell used hotel furniture. The company buys furniture and decor from high-end hotels at discount prices and then resells it to…
Plans to raid Queensland public servants’ superannuation fund have been highlighted as a factor by rating agency Standard and Poor’s in keeping the state’s credit rating steady. And it says Queensland could regain its AAA rating within two years. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Treasurer Curtis Pitt hand down the 2016 budget. Photo: Robert Shakespeare On Wednesday,…
A man accused of extortion admitted making dummy bids at a house auction to help a drug dealer sell his home and pay off a $110,000 debt, a jury has heard. Rocco Arico is alleged to have made threats to Arthur Vouthas and his family members in 2014 and 2015 unless he was paid back money he was owed,…
Image Text: FUNDRAISING ACT: Tayo Aluko AWARD WINNING playwright and singer Tayo Aluko is to help raise funds for a centre campaigning to improve the rights and lives of women. Aluko is among artists who will perform at the Crossroads Womens Centres fundraising concert on Saturday (Oct 27). The event, at the community centre in…
Lambhua, Oct 19: To help the debt-trap and helpless farmers of Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi on Tuesday took a significant step and handed over keys of 28 newly built houses to families belonging to the weaker section. This happened in Lambhua block of Sultanpur, which is his own constituency. Poor…