LONDON-The North London football club Arsenal has been given the go-ahead by the government for its controversial plan to build a new 60,000-seat stadium at Ashburton Grove in Islington, north London.

LONDON-Slough Estates has leased a 26,870-sf laboratory, production and office building at Centennial Park, Elstree, Hertfordshhire to German pharmaceutical research company, Cellzome.

FRANKFURT-The MesseTurm, Europe's tallest multi-let building, has changed hands with Tishman Speyer and its Japanese partners selling its 85 per cent stake to Generali Lend Lease and Westwind Capital Partners.

LONDON-The Charities Property Fund, launched in September 2000, has gone from strength to strength with 105 charities now contributing to the pooled fund.

MILAN-Specialist retail consultant GVA Collyer Coxhead, part of the GVA international network, is to open an office in Milan, Italy, initially to service a major letting instruction from the Spanish retail developer Neinver.

LONDON-A series of rent reviews and indexations in the UK, France and Sweden have boosted rental income at the pan-European investor CLS Holdings.

LEEDS-Developer Munroe K has started construction of a new 25,000-sf office building at the White Rose Office Park, pre-let to the Inland Revenue. 72,000 sf has now been let at the park in the past nine months.

LONDON-Jesus College Oxford Jesus has consolidated its landholdings in Oxford city centre by buying a prime retail block close to the college.