THE prize asset of the crashed Mountleigh property group has been sold in a deal worth more than £128 million, the receivers said yesterday.

Japan altogether - seen by investors as one of its prize assets.

Its prize assets are holes in the ground, the brickfields from which London was built.

"It was a collection of trophies and prize assets that needed to be reinvented to raise shareholder value."

"Corning does not want a prize asset like Damon to fall into the hands of a main competitor."

The 1988-89 season saw Luton slide down to a 16th place finish, and half-way through the season Luton's prize assets started being sold off.

With Luton's spell in the top flight finally over, it was always always going to be difficult to keep hold of prize assets.

Major, their prize asset, has crumpled before them.

As I have often said, human resources are the prize asset of the Union, provided we can derive maximum benefit from them.

Were that all, this latest asset-grab might resemble the oligarchs' original raid on Russia's prize assets.