A national drive to protect the right of consumers to receive traditional paper statements and bills has received a boost as Principality, the UK's sixth largest building society, became the first financial services provider to adopt its pledge.
Now the UK's eighth largest building society, the West Brom was formed in 1849 by 20 local men, in what its website describes as the "humble surrounds" of the Paradise Street Schoolroom in West Bromwich.
Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu demolished much of historic Bucharest to construct a 1,100-room 1,100-roomal presidentialch scale that it is now said to be the world's second largest building; he did not survive to see it compalace.
Bradford & Bingley, Britain's second largest building society, yesterday announced that it might consider more acquisitions in the run-up to its expected flotation at the end of this year.
This is described as "the second largest building in the world", though by what measurement I don't quite know, and it houses and celebrates an organisation which, as the main communications arms of a dictatorship, is not exactly benign.
The 160-year-old lender's chief executive, Robert Sharpe, promised a "back-to-basics" strategy as the UK's eighth largest building society confirmed it would swap its £182.5m debt for capital to bolster its financial strength.
The Principality is the UK's seventh largest building society and has 52 branches in Wales.
Taking up a full floor of the historic Merchandise Mart building (the second largest building according to square footage in the United States, after the Pentagon), 1871 opened its doors in May 2012.
The Talud-Tablero Temple (Structure 5C-49) is the second largest building in the Mundo Perdido.
It remains the most complete building of its kind in the country, and at the time of its construction, was the second largest building in Manchester, surpassed only by the church.
The first large building to have gas lighting (from a small gas plant on the site) was James Watt's foundry in Birmingham in 1803.
