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“About 160 jobs are under threat at a printing firm's two bases in Derby.”
“Staff were sent home from Bemrose Booth at Pride Park and Wyvern Business Park on Monday.”
“He said the firm had been losing money over the past few years because of the economic climate and competition within the printing sector.”
“Jerry Marsden, who has worked for the company for seven years, said...”
“Somerset owns 62 farms”
“to fill a £400m black hole in its budget”
“The third biggest bill this council faces is to pay off debt interest of £35m a year”
“The Tory-controlled authority believes it can raise up to £40m from its farms”
“Heli-Cusco recently got permission to fly six flights a day into the helipad at Aguas Calientes, around 1.3 miles (2 km) from Machu Picchu.”
“Up to 2,000 tourists a day visit the mountain city.”
“Before the ban came into force, as many as 90 people could be flown in to the area on six flights a day.”
“The 15 people travelling on each helicopter trip paid $316 (£213) per person for the trip.”
“Avalon demanded he should be paid £20m over two years.”
“new cemetery costing almost £1m”
“expected to provide enough space for the next 60 to 80 years”
“about 400 burials and interments each year”
“on average 25 years capacity across the seven cemeteries in the area”
“other 14 cemeteries”
“three sides of the garden”
“could cut up to 700 jobs by next March”
“shed 300 jobs last year”
“The creator of the popular Wii gaming console has a market value in excess of $85bn (£57.2bn) and is now Japan's third most valuable listed company.”
“Figures released by Gfk Chart-Track suggest that overall console sales in the UK fell by almost a third in the first six months of 2010, mostly due to declining interest among shoppers in Nintendo Wii and DS handheld devices.”
“Sony Computer Entertainment's chairman, Kaz Hirai, said it had seen increases in year-on-year sales for its PlayStation 3 console system, for the past 10 consecutive months.”
“The changes to the branches in Montgomery, Llanidloes and Llanfair Caereinion came into effect on Monday.”
“The new opening hours are 1000-1400 in Llanfair Caereinion on a Tuesday and Friday”
“1000-1400 in Llanidloes on a Monday and Thursday”
“1000-1400 in Montgomery on a Wednesday”
“we offer a full Welsh language telephone banking service between 9am and 5pm”
“and are looking to expand this service later in the year”
“Tesco bought the former Vaux site in 2001”
“More than 300 people lost their jobs when the family brewery closed in 1999”
“after 162 years”
“The 15-acre site”
“The 15-acre site has been empty since”
“Tesco remains committed to making a major investment into the city”
“Flybe achieved 98th place in the annual Sunday Times Deloitte league table.”
“the Exeter carrier recently reported an 8% rise in sales.”
“The company operates services to Newquay, Cornwall and the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey among its 180 domestic and European routes.”
“Flybe said it had carried 7.3m passengers during the past 12 months.”
“Last year Flybe was placed in the top 250 private companies.”
“The fact that we are the only company in it from Devon and Cornwall is an even bigger thrill.”
“Esso said it apologised for the "regrettable incident".”
“The minimum adult hourly wage will rise by 2% in October to £5.93 an hour.”
“That figure, for May, showed prices rising by 5.1%.”
“The new rate, for adults over the age of 21, will come into force alongside a new £2.50 hourly minimum wage for apprentices.”
“Younger workers between the ages of 18-20 will get a 9p increase to £4.92 an hour”
“16 and 17 year-olds will get £3.64 an hour, 7p more than previously.”
“The Low Pay Commission estimates that some 970,000 people stand to benefit from the increases.”
“Earlier this month, the so-called 'London Living Wage' was increased by a higher amount of 3.3% to £7.85. almost £2 more than the new national minimum.”
“more than £5m”
“1,000-strong location crew”
“five weeks”
“brought in 500 crew, 650 extras and 125 horses”
“three friends”
“spent five weeks”
“500 crew, 650 extras and 125 horses”
“some operating 24 hours a day”
“Strikes cause misery. They prevent ordinary people going about their daily lives, whether it's getting to work or getting the kids to school,”
“Strikes also cost the economy dearly and undermine our efforts to help rebuild the economy. That is why we believe the bar needs to be raised.”
“Costner invested $20m (£13.46m) developing the machines, which can clean up to 210,000 gallons of oily water a day.”
“raised £6m in its latest round of fundraising.”
“Oyster 1 has been undergoing sea trials at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney since last November.”
“Aquamarine plans to deploy its new Oyster 2 device next summer.”
“Aquamarine has won the rights to develop the Brough Head wave farm off the coast of Scotland, which at 200 MW could provide enough energy for about 190,000 homes.”
“It plans to develop up to 1,000 MW of marine energy sites by 2020 in partnership with utility SSE Renewables.”
“Aquamarine Power has made substantial progress over the last 12 months," Mr McAdam said.”
“Culture and Sport Glasgow will now be known as Glasgow Life and has spent money on a new logo for uniforms, new signage and marketing material.”
“Culture and Sport Glasgow, which was launched three years ago, said research suggested the name meant little to the public who used the facilities.”
“Corn is one of the ingredients in some food thickeners A US food innovation firm that used to be part of chemicals giant ICI has been sold in a $1.3bn (£877m) deal.”
“It had sales of $1.2bn in 2009, employing 2,250 people on 11 plants in eight countries.”
“Purchased by Dutch firm AkzoNobel as part of its acquisition of ICI in 2008, the business includes a technical support centre in Manchester.”
“raking in $109m (£73m) in its opening weekend”
“which took $29m (£19.49m)”
“$70.5m (£47m)”
“took $13.8m (£9.27m)”
“with $6.1m (£4.1m)”
“taking just $5.1m (£3.43m)”
“with takings of $4.8m (£3.22m)”
“with takings of $2.7m (£1.8m) apiece”
“The sale, likely to bring in around £1.5bn, could open it up to more operators, possibly from overseas.”
“The route, known as HS1, cost £5bn to build and is currently run by London and Continental Railways under the control of the Department for Transport.”
“The successful bidder will become the owner of HS1 Ltd, with a 30-year concession to run the line and stations.”
“This hospital would have provided hundreds of construction jobs over the next two or three years.”
“we spent two days pounding out the beginnings of what became Toy Story 3”
“With more than three hundred characters Toy Story 3 is a huge marketing opportunity for Pixar's parent company, Walt Disney”
“The Hollywood giant expects retailers to sell $2.4bn in merchandise, and the film could turn in the company's biggest profit to date”
“Nottingham City Homes, which manages 29,000 properties in the city, confirmed it had fitted a new boiler at the address six weeks ago.”
“Last year, it raised £4.1m.”
“Organisers say the costs of meeting licence requirements such as fencing, trackways and security personnel for the event have risen from £21,000 in 2004 to £170,000 last year.”
“Ken Talbot, one of Australia's richest men, is amongst the missing”
“The area they were visiting includes the Mbalam project which straddles Cameroon and Congo - where Sundance Resources is hoping to extract 35m tonnes of iron ore a year.”
“Mr Talbot is a non-executive director of Sundance with an estimated wealth of $840 million (£567m), according to BRW business magazine's latest rich list.”
“Meanwhile, BP has said that its costs in tackling the disaster have now risen to $2bn (£1.34bn).”
“He said to repair the control pod would have meant temporarily stopping drilling work on the rig at at time when it was costing BP $500,000 (£337,000) a day to operate the Deepwater Horizon.”
“BP chief executive Tony Hayward, giving evidence to Congress, said: "There is nothing I have seen in the evidence so far that suggests that anyone put cost ahead of safety, if there are then we will take action."”
“Several rig workers the BBC spoke to who were on the Deepwater Horizon said there was pressure in April to work fast. Work to prepare and then seal the well was behind schedule and had to be completed before a production rig could move in …”
“BP said it had indications of a successful cementing operation and the company that was in charge of the cement job, Halliburton, has said it was consistent with that used in similar applications.”
“The number of Scots finding work has risen for the eighth month in a row”
“The number of people seeking permanent work across the country rose for the 26th month in a row”
