Derry City Council is asking people to come to Queen's Quay on New Year's Eve to welcome in 2013, the official start of the city's year as UK City of Culture.
The Queen will be welcome to visit a new London theatre complex set to open close to Buckingham Palace later this year, according to its management team.
Investors put out thewelcome mat for homebuilders in the first half of theyear, pushing up their share prices despite the worst pace of new-home sales since the Great Depression on expectations of a long-awaited rebound after the 2008 and 2009 slump.