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“The Scottish unemployment rate now stands at 8.0%, which is above the UK rate of 7.9%”
“The company, which also owns Magners cider, is moving 23 jobs to Glasgow from Prague and Budapest.”
“The company is transferring 37 jobs in customer contact, which have been in Glasgow under A-B InBev, and will now remain in the city.”
“C&C has agreed a three-year shirt sponsorship deal with Rangers and Celtic”
“Factory Events has said it is a tenant of the Custard Factory and has 15 years of history of putting on entertainment in the area, but there is no financial/business relationship beyond the tenancy.”
“She has agreed a three-year deal to present a breakfast show with Chiles and prime time entertainment shows.”
“the BBC had offered her a £900,000 contract over two years.”
“Mr Chiles left The One Show in April over changes to the show's format.”
“Announcing her move on Sunday after three years on The One Show”
“The £180,000 scheme to improve the centre of Thatcham started in March but its completion has been delayed until July after a gas main was unearthed.”
“Traders claim takings are down by as much as 40%.”
“Stephen Walker, from the Family Bookshop, said: "It has reduced our footfall considerably and my takings have been down by up to 40%.”
“Christian Martin, from the Cook & Butcher shop, added: "During the main bulk of the work when they shut The Broadway we lost about 25 to 30% in that three-week period.”
“Councillor Pamela Bale added: "This scheme will be a great improvement to the centre of Thatcham and should make it all the more attractive to visitors and shoppers.”
“Traders have also raised fears about a smaller project which is scheduled to take place in the High Street in the autumn.”
“the two later exchanged business cards”
“About 200 jobs would have been created”
“Telstra said the agreement would earn it at least A$11bn (£6.5bn; $9.6bn).”
“Telstra's chairman Catherine Livingstone said the deal represented a 'mutually beneficial outcome for investors, customers and employees' after a year of 'complex negotiations'.”
“However it is still pursuing legislation to break up the company into its wholesale and retail operations.”
“I've lost $300,000 in the past three years.”
“Mr Helo used to employ 32 people at his factory. Now there are only four.”
“A kilo of beef smuggled from Egypt costs around $15...”
“The station is undergoing a £7m refurbishment.”
“Passenger information displays have been transformed and three separate artists have been commissioned to work with architects and designers.”
“The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened at the Universal Orlando Resort in Florida on Friday.”
“5,000 people were waiting to get in before the park opened.”
“The 20-acre site includes rides, shops and reproductions of the fictitious village of Hogsmeade, the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the Hogwarts Express train.”
“The park has two roller coasters and a ride which takes guests on a flight through Harry's life, including encounters with Dementors and a dragon and projections of characters from the film.”
“The deceased worked for AMEC who are the contractors working on a scheduled maintenance shutdown.”
“it had lost more than £250,000 over five years due to a succession of poor summers.”
“who has leased the lido from Brighton and Hove City Council for the last 10 years”
“I can confirm that we do not allow legal high traders to trade at any Festival Republic festival and fully support the minister's view.”
“He was later spotted by photographers on his $270,000 (£182,000) Farr 52 racing yacht, "Bob", at the event.”
“Khalifa Al Kuwari, chief operating officer of Qatar Holdings, which is buying the store on behalf of the Qatari royal family for a reported £1.5bn.”
“The tram project is already behind schedule and over budget.”
“He has also claimed that it was still possible for a 'properly performing' contractor to finish the project by the end of 2012.”
“has been on the same site for 206 years”
“with the loss of 100 jobs”
“went into administration in May along with nine others in the UK owned by Vergo Retail”
“Liverpool-based Vergo stepped in to rescue Joplings in 2007 when parent company Owen Owen collapsed”
“From its opening in 1804, trading as Jopling & Tuer - named after the stores owners - the store became part of the fabric of Sunderland”
“Sainsbury's will close its Calais branch on 30 June, while Oddbins Calais shut earlier this year.”
“Tesco has operated its Vins Plus store in Calais for 15 years but now, according to The Grocer, it says it expects to close after consultations with staff.”
“Thirteen colleagues have been informed that their jobs are at risk and will be offered redeployment opportunities by the two co-shareholders.”
“A fourth company, Majestic Wine, says it has seen a 28% fall in sales for the year to the end of March in its three northern France stores.”
“Sainsbury's will close its Calais branch on 30 June”
“Oddbins Calais shut earlier this year.”
“Majestic Wine, says it has seen a 28% fall in sales for the year to the end of March in its three northern France stores.”
“Anadarko, the largest independent oil and gas company operating in the Gulf, owns 25% of the well.”
“BP's partners include Anadarko and Mitsui, with a 10% share.”
“From 50p to £5 residents can buy anything from washing lines to golf club sets.”
“25 other sites across Hampshire also offer items for sale as the County Council see re-use as a key part of its waste strategy.”
“Only about 5% of the items we refurbish here are redirected from the council.”
“Mr Williams is also on the board of the Furniture Re-use Network which represents 350 charities and non-profit groups involved in re-use across the UK.”
“Its figures show that 10 million items of furniture are thrown away every year.”
“A containment cap and another device are capturing some 25,000 barrels of oil a day”
“the latest estimates suggest 35,000-60,000 barrels a day are spewing out”
“BP plans to seal the leak with concrete but that is not likely to happen until August at the earliest”
“The plans were to build 552 modernist flats designed by Lord Rogers on the 12.8-acre site, which the Qatari Diar CPC consortium bought for £959m.”
“The Qatari developers dropped the scheme in June of that year.”
“In May 2010, the developers lodged an £81m claim at the High Court, blaming Prince Charles for the withdrawal of a planning application.”
“The consortium also said it would take too long (six weeks) to legally organise mounting a takeover of the school.”
“Time is not on our side and we are making an SOS appeal for donations.”
“Roger Faxon, who was previously the boss of the EMI Music Publishing, will now also have responsibility for EMI Recorded Music.”
“Mr Faxon becomes EMI's first group boss since its 2007 takeover by Terra Firma.”
“As a result of the restructuring, Charles Allen is standing down as chairman of EMI Recording Music.”
“Mr Allen, the former ITV boss who had only been in the job since March, will become an adviser to both EMI and Terra Firma, which is a private equity group.”
“The WCIT stands alongside more than 100 other livery companies including the Worshipful Company of Pikemen, of Bowyers (longbow makers) and of Lorimers (harness makers).”
“There are now more than 100 such organisations in the City of London and it was the first such, the Mercers, that founded the famous St Paul's schools.”
“Charles Hughes says there are 20 different WCIT panels running activities and charitable work is a huge percentage of what it does.”
“What it no longer does is get involved with protecting wages, and with Bill Gates among its 720 members that would be a difficult thing indeed to benchmark.”
“The chamber, which represents over 2,500 organisations across the city”
“I have never known three announcements like that in the space of an hour in the last 10 years.”
“Business leaders in Sheffield are seeking urgent talks with the coalition government after the decision to cut funding for three projects in the city.”
“On Thursday, an £80m loan to engineering firm Sheffield Forgemasters and a £13m redevelopment of the former Outokumpu steelworks site were ditched.”
“The chamber, which represents over 2,500 organisations across the city, said it wanted "to ensure that at this critical time Sheffield's voice is being heard".”
“Thomas Keefe, from Liverpool, sued the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company Ltd after working on their ferries for over 35 years.”
“The ferry company, which had not carried out any noise level tests, was also found in breach of its duty to employees by not checking whether the noise exceeded the correct level.”
“It also did not offer any hearing protection, the judges were told.”
“It follows a five-fold growth in membership of the groups over the past decade.”
“Membership of the financial co-operatives across Wales has increased from 10,000 in 2000 to more than 50,000 by the end of 2009.”
“Everyone in Wales can now access a credit union, with 29 set up across the 22 local authorities.”
“The Brent Cross Cricklewood project, which had the backing of the London Mayor and Barnet council, will commence in 2014.”
“The proposals for Cricklewood and Brent Cross aim to create 27,000 jobs as well as homes, schools and transport links.”
“At the moment 12 of the 21 wards, or areas, that make up the Highland Council region have no large-scale wind farms.”
“Under the new system, communities where schemes were located would get 60% of the money provided from operators, with the rest put in a pot for the benefit of the wider region.”
“The accountants PKF found that occupancy levels fell 4.3% in Scotland but increased by 1.9% in the UK.”
“Revenue or rooms yield was down 7% in Scotland with Edinburgh seeing the worst fall of 10.7% over the month and the UK reporting a drop of 1.5%.”
“The three firms run the main ferry services to and from the island.”
“The business collapsed in 2008 owing its creditors more than £1m.”
“A Department of Enterprise probe found it had been trading while insolvent for more than three years.”
“Plunkett Caldwell, 58, of Banns Meadow Downpatrick accepted a six year ban.”
“Elizabeth Caldwell, 36, of the same address, accepted a five year ban.”
“The Lobster Pot was one of the most successful restaurants in Northern Ireland throughout the 1970s and 1980s.”
“The Caldwells bought the business, which operates from the square in Strangford, in 2003.”
“The company went into liquidation in September 2008 leaving its creditors short of £1,241,950.”
“The Department of Enterprise investigation found that, as well as knowingly trading while insolvent, the Caldwells failed to file accounts and misused an Ulster Bank account by bouncing a total of 164 cheques in two years.”
“It forms part of a collection of Twain manuscripts expected to sell for up to $1.2m (£810,000).”
“It has also received offers for all or part of SeaEnergy Renewables Limited (SERL), in which it has an 80% stake.”
