PLANS by major drinks company Lanitis Bros Ltd. to move into the milk industry have sent shockwaves across the so-far regulated market.

PROFESSIONAL dancers from Ghana brought to Cyprus by UNESCO and the International Theatre Institute for a Festival of Ancient Greek Drama entered the country with false passports.

But the discrepancy was only spotted when three of the group of 14 tried to go to Egypt using their own passports on Tuesday.

THE FORESTRY Department has decided to exterminate the fallow deer population in the Tylliria Mountains to prevent the unwelcome species from getting out of hand and eliminating the treasured moufflon population.

The order for a mass cull was given after attempts to return the deer to their native Switzerland or offload them onto zoos came to nothing.

TURKISH Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash will not be attending UN-sponsored talks in New York next week aimed at solving the Cyprus Problem, he informed the United Nations last night.

SHARE prices ended 1.5 per cent up yesterday as the all-share index closed at 139.8 points, but blue chips lagged behind with only a 0.87 per cent rise to 537.4 points.

The index was heading uphill after reaching an intraday low of 135 points when a bomb scare interrupted trading at around 11am, half an hour into the session.

THE SEVEN crew members of a Cambodian-flagged ship safely abandoned the vessel when it started listing off the Paphos coast yesterday with a cargo of copper.

TAKIS Cole, chairman of the investors association PASECHA, and four other members of its council stepped down yesterday, according to a television report.

THE GREEK government will decide next week how to proceed with the privatisation of ailing national airline Olympic Airways (OA), after a deadline in talks with the front-running bidder Axon Airlines expired yesterday.

INTERNAL tensions yesterday marked civil servants’ union PASYDY’s electoral conference, which decided a new general council following the shock resignations of 52 general councillors last month.

THE GOVERNMENT has undertaken a £2.4 million project to improve the quality of various roads across Cyprus.

The head of the Public Works Department, Stathis Hamboullas, yesterday signed three contracts for different roadworks to be completed over the next year.