City Diary: Sighs of relief as Aylesbury residents avoid G4S as neighbour Slice of village strife The plot thickens over former Ocado and Michael Page finance chief Andrew Bracey's plans for a housing development in the Wiltshire village of Chilmark. Resident Christopher Edwick, the former owner of one of the two houses on Bracey's land, has posted an open letter to the village on the Chilmark Village Life blog, in which he accuses Bracey of tricking him into selling his late father's home by making the transaction in the name of his partner, Victoria Wild. "My brother and I have mistakenly sold the property to the very people we were adamantly against selling it to," Edwick wails. We were deceived. Bracey and Wild, however, have little sympathy as they progress the Help to Buy scheme they say will "bring new families into the community." Writing on the same blog, the pair say: "He [Mr Edwick] did decide to sell the house on the open market without any restrictions as to its possible future use." Sky chiefs to fall on Scotland With two Scots on its board, it was only a matter of time before BSkyB decided to hold its annual general meeting in Edinburgh, rather than London, as in every other year of the broadcaster's 24-year history. But next month's move to Scotland was not a request by Hibernian chairman Nick Ferguson and independent non-exec Martin Gilbert. Diary understands it had more to do with the fact that BSkyB is one of Scotland's biggest private-sector employers, and some of its institutional investors are based in Edinburgh. The fact that the board will also be far away from the dramatic events due to unfold at the Old Bailey from next week involving BSkyB's biggest shareholder, Rupert Murdoch, and former chair and non-exec James Murdoch is, of course, purely an added bonus. Is the world ready for a rally in rare elements? Icap chief Michael Spencer, at least, is a heavy metal fan. In some private interdealing this week, Spencer spent £462,000 from the coffers of his family's holding company, IPGL Limited, on 200,000 extra shares in Tungsten Corporation, taking his stake in the precious metal producer to almost 1pc. As Spencer, who has a non-exec seat on Tungsten's board, will have appreciated, the company's Aim flotation last week was "significantly oversubscribed."