1.   Middlesbrough Council was offered the opportunity to buy the building, but had to turn it down.

2.   Mr Thompson, who bought the building a year ago, has applied for planning permission from Darlington Council to change the use to a house in multiple occupation.

3.   And when the economy collapsed and the developers defaulted on their mortgages, the church bought the buildings.

4.   Assuming he could bring a shopkeeper to the ground floor, Dow figured he would be able to afford to buy the building without having to subsist on cornmeal.

5.   At his Third Avenue site, he recently bought the building that housed the store and was displacing a coffee shop.

6.   Based on those applications, Jones was allowed by the city to buy two buildings from the housing preservation department.

7.   Across the street from his new store he bought the building that once housed WROX radio.

8.   Bull would be able to buy the building back after that.

9.   But it was unable to buy the building in which it was housed.

10.   But the lawyer, Tom Doepfner, said it was unclear whether the rule existed when Tabacco bought the building.