CYPRUS Airways (CY) has been ranked second in the race for Greece’s ailing carrier Olympic Airways, but chairman Haris Loizides said yesterday they had no intention of entering a bidding war.
MAJOR traffic disruption looms this week as road works close the southern Nicosia by-pass, from the Metro supermarket traffic lights on Strovolos Avenue to Pedieos Street, from 9am on Monday until Friday afternoon.
FOREIGN Minister Yiannakis Cassoulides yesterday paid tribute at the funeral of a Greek Cypriot woman known as the ‘Granny of ELDYK’, the Greek contingent to Cyprus.
Kalliopi Avraam was 78 in 1974 when she was killed during the Turkish invasion and buried in a mass grave along with unidentified soldiers at a Nicosia cemetery.
A FIRE raging out of control in a rural area north of Paphos late yesterday destroyed vast areas of forest and was threatening several villages.
Paphos police said the 200 or so residents of Philousa village had been advised to evacuate their homes, while nearby Mesana and Arminou were also in the path of the blaze.
THE BRITISH bases yesterday denied scuppering an agreement with Cyprus to allow testing of electromagnetic radiation levels from aerials at the Akrotiri base before a massive new antenna goes up.
POLICE were yesterday searching for a suspected arsonist after workshop machinery worth £4,000 was destroyed by fire in an overnight attack.
The damage to an aluminium workshop in Tersefanou village, in the Larnaca district, was not discovered till 9am yesterday, when owner Charalambos Kaniklis went to work.
A SUSPECTED bank robber and his alleged accomplice were remanded in custody yesterday in connection with Friday morning’s armed raid on a Bank of Cyprus branch in the Kato Polemidia suburb of Limassol.
PAPHOS police were yesterday waiting for a father and stepson who knifed each other in a fight on Friday to recover from their injuries before deciding what action to take against them.
FAILED independent candidate Costas Tsangarides is challenging the legality of the May 27 parliamentary elections, claiming the layout of the ballot paper for Nicosia was deliberately biased against independents.
SHOPKEEPERS from the Ayios Tychonas area of Limassol have set up a protest group to campaign against continuing road works which they say are badly affecting their businesses.
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