ACTS OF selfless bravery are commendable but civilians should not turn into vigilantes in the face of crime, police yesterday said – a day after a 46-year-old man was shot dead while giving chase to a bank robber.

THE ATTORNEY-general has launched an appeal against the sentencing of a 62-year-old man recently found guilty on child sex offence charges.

The incidents took place at the 62-year-old’s Mackenzie beach flat between July 1, 2005 and July 22, 2006.

THE NATIONAL Bank of Greece in Cyprus announced a lock-out yesterday after bank employees union ETYK has repeatedly refused to end their strike action.

BOWEL CANCER is the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of death among cancers in the Western world – yet only half of all Cypriots know what it is.

Although highly treatable if caught early, few people recognise the disease’s severity and, unlike breast cancer or lung cancer, rarely undergo asymptomatic screening.

Flames caused extensive damage to a block of abandoned houses in the old town of Nicosia yesterday. The fire, on Pendadaktilos Street, was put out around 8pm. It burned down a carpenter’s closed workshop and a prostitute’s former residence, police said.

Residents furious as fire licks Polis town

AYIA NAPA bar owners closed shop on Sunday night in retaliation at what they claim is an unfair police clampdown on noise pollution and yesterday called for a law to set the volume levels.

The bar owners said they objected to police charging them for playing their music excessively loud, which led to hefty court fines imposed year after year.

MARFIN’S operations in Greece are said to be under the spotlight after allegations the bank made a killing by buying government structured bonds and selling them over-price to a pension fund.

THE BRITISH bases want their lost buoys back and are offering an amnesty to those who return them to their rightful owners.

A statement from the bases yesterday said that during previous summer seasons, literally hundreds of SBA Sea Bathers Buoys went missing from their beaches or had been illegally re-positioned.

STATE-OWNED Cyprus Airways (CY) yesterday signed a loan agreement with Hellenic Bank for 78 million euros signalling a new start for the airline after years of losses and bad management.