The rise in prices in the first three months of 2006 was...slower than the gains recorded in the two final quarters of 2005.

We expect this trend to continue during 2006 as house prices rise at a slower pace than earnings, therefore making it a little easier for first-time buyers to enter the market.

The annual percentage increase in house prices nationally in 2005 was the smallest for 10 years.

The market is in a consolidation mode after recent gains. The rise in crude prices is also providing investors an excuse to sell.

My first album was completed in three months.

You'd use recorded effects and then they'd have to come off discs. So we tried to make our own, and we used to have all sorts of things. We used to have roller skates for making train noises over rails and I remember once trying to effect the noise of someone's head being chopped off. I used a cabbage for that, it was very effective.