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“Up to 80 firefighters have been tackling a severe fire at a solvents factory near the Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire border.”
“Developers had planned to spend £1.3bn building a hotel, two golf courses and a golf club house on the Dall Estate.”
“The proposal included shops, a clubhouse and loch-side accommodation on a 430-hectare site.”
“Proposed membership fees were £2m, plus annual dues of £500,000.”
“£7m upgrade”
“begin from Monday”
“completed by March 2011”
“carrying up to 22 million vehicles a year”
“create 1,300 sustainable new jobs”
“West End hit musical Wicked is celebrating takings of £100m since it opened in September 2006.”
“The show has been seen by almost three million people over 1,500 performances, according to its producers.”
“£41m of investment to Norfolk”
“£7m extension”
“safeguards 225 jobs”
“create 500 new jobs”
“employs 340 people”
“We plan to have the store open in 2012.”
“three ship‑to‑shore gantry cranes.”
“24 container‑wide decks.”
“will officially open in 2011.”
“first ship capable of carrying 10,000 containers enter service, but within the next few years there will be over a hundred of these massive ships on the major trade routes.”
“Each crane weighs approximately 2,000 tonnes and is capable of lifting two containers simultaneously, weighing up to a total of 70 tonnes.”
“Changes would have to be made to aircraft approach procedures at an airport if a 30-turbine wind farm was approved, council papers show.”
“Highlands and Islands Airports (HIA) said it would need six months to make the alterations at Wick before any turbine construction at Spittal Hill.”
“Twenty-seven of the turbines would stand 110m (360ft) tall and a further three 100m (328ft) high in the plan submitted to the Scottish government.”
“Papers sent to the planning committee have given details of 19 other wind projects within a 21-mile (35km) radius of the proposed site.”
“Illuminate Christian Bookshop in Shrewsbury High Street employs eight staff and is the base for a youth charity and a debt advice service too.”
“Co-owner Phil Wittall said due to high maintenance costs the shop would close unless it could raise £60,000 by July.”
“A trust has been set up and is selling non-profit shares in the firm for £50.”
“Bookshop manager Christine Coleman said there had been a Christian bookshop in the high street for more than 40 years.”
“A Christian bookshop has been in the high street for the past 40 years.”
“These include a 5% cut to public sector pay in an effort to bring down its borrowing and help restore its credibility among international lenders.”
“five new platforms”
“due to be remodelled by 2013”
“starting on 21 June”
“scheduled to be completed by May 2011”
“McCormick MacNaughton is based at Blaris Industrial Esate in Lisburn and employs 56 people.”
“The company was established over 50 years ago”
“The Tornado engine cost £3m to build and first took to the rails in 2008.”
“The US tycoon wants to create a championship course as well as a hotel and hundreds of holiday homes at Menie in Aberdeenshire.”
“Mr Trump last month vowed to cut the ribbon on his golf resort within 18 months.”
“Kevin Brown, who is currently managing director of Aberdeen and Southampton Airports, is take up the same role in Edinburgh at the end of July.”
“It follows last month's announcement that Gordon Dewar had handed in his notice after securing the job of chief executive of Bahrain Airport.”
“Mr Brown joined BAA in October 2002.”
“He has held positions at both Heathrow and Aberdeen Airport and was appointed managing director at Aberdeen in 2007.”
“In 2008, Mr Brown was appointed managing director of both Aberdeen and Southampton Airports.”
“Despite significant growth in recent months, and while other airports have suffered during the recession, we cannot become complacent...”
“We have frozen all new vacancies, training budgets and suspended the Dartmoor Grant.”
“minimum 3mm font size”
“food producers will have three years to update their labels, and small firms with fewer than 100 employees will have five years to do so.”
“Original proposals by Bach Homes for more than 100 apartments have now changed to a large hotel, an underground car park and flats.”
“The redevelopment was put on hold when Bach Homes went into administration in March 2009.”
“Planning permission for the redevelopment scheme was given by the borough council in February 2008.”
“£42m Wave Hub”
“expected to start delivering power to the National Grid in 2011”
“something that over 90% of FSB members agree with”
“Scotland should aim to double its exports over the next 10 years”
“Over the next five years, SCDI wants to see the Scottish Parliament's responsibility for tax and spending decisions strengthened”
“All services on Commodore Clipper have been cancelled, but an additional high speed service has been scheduled between Portsmouth and the Channel Islands to enable passengers due to travel later to complete their journeys.”
“an additional high speed service has been scheduled between Portsmouth and the Channel Islands to enable passengers due to travel later to complete their journeys.”
“Like-for-like sales at Sainsbury's - which pulls out new store openings - grew by 1.1% in the 12 weeks to 12 June, excluding petrol.”
“But when the return of VAT to 17.5% after its temporary cut was factored in, growth was just 0.3%.”
“Sainsbury's added that total sales grew by 4.4% excluding fuel.”
“Tesco said its latest quarterly like-for-like UK sales had also increased by 1.1%”
“though when the VAT change was taken into account, it grew only 0.1%.”
“He said Sainsbury's had already sold 50,000 of its order of 70,000.”
“bills were falling by 8%”
“Alworths, which already has seven stores in England, has opened its first Scottish shop in Cupar.”
“Alworths has plans to open a further nine stores in Scotland.”
“Woolworths went into administration at the end of 2008.”
“Its 815 stores were closed and about 30,000 staff were made redundant.”
“Andy Latham, who worked for Woolworths for 25 years, is behind the new chain.”
“NI Water does not have an accurate measure of the economic level of leakage (ELL) for Northern Ireland making it difficult to measure performance but a new ELL figure is expected in 2011.”
“Thanet Wind Farm supplied power to the National Grid for the first time on 16 May.”
“The wind farm is expected to generate enough electricity for 240,000 homes.”
“With more than 90 of the planned 100 wind turbines installed, Thanet Wind Farm supplied power to the National Grid for the first time on 16 May.”
“The project, built by Swedish energy giant Vattenfall, is expected to be fully operational in the autumn.”
“The company also owns the 30-turbine Kentish Flats wind farm, off Herne Bay, which was one of the UK's first such projects when it opened five years ago.”
“In all, up to 341 turbines will be installed over a four-year period.”
“We have 50% more production on these turbines out here and it is not disturbing anyone onshore.”
“Mr Nielsen said that in the future, offshore wind farms could have up to 1,000 turbines.”
“He said he would meet BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg later on Wednesday and 'inform him that he is to set aside whatever resources are required to compensate the workers and business owners who have been harmed as a result of his company…”
“Barcud Derwen has gone into administration with the loss of 35 jobs”
“Antena issued redundancy notices to 25 staff”
“The Cup's authorised beer is Budweiser which pays millions of dollars for the privilege.”
“With a large chunk of Fifa's revenue coming from selling marketing rights, it vigorously pursues anyone who tries to associate themselves with the tournament, the BBC's Jonah Fisher reports.”
“The 360-mile-long (580km) pipeline from the Thar deserts of Rajasthan to the Gujarat coast passes through 270 villages and 34 major rivers.”
“The pipeline took two years and 6,000 workers to build.”
“There are also 35 heating stations at 20km (12 mile) intervals along the length of the pipeline.”
“It has taken 24 months to link this key piece of infrastructure from Rajasthan to the refineries which will allow for significant production growth.”
“It will be the first of 90 foundations to be laid on the Sheringham Shoal windfarm over the next nine months.”
“The foundations will be between 164ft (50m) and 180ft (55m) and weigh between 400-600 tonnes.”
“invest £2m on expanding its headquarters in County Down.”
“double the size of the premises and provide the capacity for an estimated 200 new jobs in the Newtownards area.”
“currently recruiting another 20 employees”
“anticipates recruiting 200 people over the next two years.”
“£1m expansion in the company's local network in 2008 which involved opening four new branches.”
“On a visit to the site, Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson vowed that the major motorway project would be completed on schedule next year.”
“The bridge is the only one of the 13 major structures on the new motorway to pass over water.”
“The 190ft crane has already been used to lift beams for the new M74 link bridge over the M8 into place and to slot the Harthill footbridge into place.”
