Piccadilly

Part of the ceiling at London's Piccadilly Theatre collapsed during a performance, world agencies have reported.

Several people were injured and the theatre was evacuated.

There were 1,100 people inside the building during the incident. A part of the plaster fell on the ceiling at a time when Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" starring US actor Wendell Pierce.

In Paris, the Eiffel Tower went dark. In London, a kaleidoscope of famous sites switched off their lights - Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace, the London Eye.

A merger between teh owner of Bulgarian supermarket chain Piccadilly and Carrefour's franchisee in the country has been called off, dnevnik.bg.reported on Monday.

According to KMB BV, the company holding the Carrefour franchise in Bulgaria and owned by Greece's Marinopoulos Group, the merger won't proceed.

German corporation REWE Group, represented in Bulgaria by two popular supermarket chains BILLA and PENNY Market is allegedly in the process of selling their locations across Bulgaria.

According to unconfirmed information reported by Kapital daily, the procedures have already been launched and the results will be visible in less than two months.

The owners of Bulgaria's supermarket chain Piccadilly and the Carrefour franchise agreed to merge the two retail chains in Bulgaria.

According to Dnevnik.bg, the two owners, the Bulgarian company AP Mart and Greek franchise of Carrefour, KMB Bulgaria, will establish a new joint venture.

A total of 71 pretrial proceedings into violations of voter rights at the early parliamentary elections have been launched, BGNES news agency reports.

Eight of them are summary proceedings and one an immediate procedure. There have been three guilty verdicts for violating voter rights.

The retail chain Piccadilly is officially back in Bulgarian hands, after the competition watchdog allowed the sale to the local AP Mart. 

AP Mart was set up by the Bulgarian businessmen Angel Angelov and Petur Dudolenski for the purpose of buying Piccadilly from the Belgian retail giant Delhaize in February.