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“The public can be assured that this project to complete the missing link between the existing M74 and the M8 is on schedule for opening next year.”
“nearly half the workforce leaving the firm”
“The project to link the Angel Row building with a nearby shopping site should be completed by the end of 2010.”
“Council staff have begun moving from these buildings into the former Capital One site near the train station.”
“The Guildhall has been earmarked as a base for energy group E.On.”
“A £2.4m scheme aimed at helping 840 find work in Neath Port Talbot has been launched. The scheme will run for the next three years”
“Over the next three years we will support over 800 people in their journey towards higher self esteem, confidence, acquiring the skills and abilities to gain and regain entry to meaningful employment.”
“could open by 2015”
“Neil van Schalkwyk says his firm has sold 1.5m vuvuzelas in Europe since October”
“and expects sales of up to 20 million rand ($2.6m; £1.7m) over the course of the tournament.”
“they could churn out at least 10,000 instruments a day.”
“Even without the World Cup, South Africa's vuvuzela industry is said to be worth around 50 million rand ($6.45m; £4.4m).”
“Brandon Bernardo of the vuvuzela.co.za website told Reuters news agency they could churn out at least 10,000 instruments a day.”
“fewer than 100 people have refused to use their vehicles for work, less than 5% of those who are affected, since action began on 9 June.”
“more than half of the 800 essential users had taken action.”
“which totals more than £1,000 a year for some staff, and replace it with a flat fee of 40p-a-mile.”
“began industrial action last week.”
“fewer than 100 of about 2,000 of its essential and casual car users had taken part and contingency plans were working well.”
“However, these changes are necessary in the current climate and will need to be made on 1 July.”
“we believe more than half of the council's 800 essential users, those who need their cars more than twice a week, are taking part.”
“Simpson was jailed at Southampton Crown Court for five-and-a-half years.”
“admitted not paying duty on £4.5m worth of cigarettes”
“tried to smuggle 21 million fake Regal cigarettes through Southampton port in 2008”
“The cigarettes were on board a ship which arrived from China on 13 December, 2008.”
“The cigarettes were crammed into two 40ft (12m) containers”
“More than 300 staff are employed by the tile manufacturer”
“Administrators from KPMG are assessing the position at Pilkington's Group, which employs 380 staff in Greater Manchester, Dorset and Dublin”
“It also runs a site in Poole which includes a quarry with the capacity for 350,000 tons of heavy clay”
“Andor, a spin-off company from Queen's University Belfast, employs around 260 people worldwide, making highly sophisticated cameras for use in scientific research.”
“In China, for example, we grew by 71 per cent over in the six month period to the end of March”
“The ANP talks about 50bn barrels of oil and gas, and some more optimistic estimates go as far as 100bn.”
“But until now, what is known is that the giant Tupi field has between five and eight billion barrels.”
“National oil company Petrobras - which producers more than 95% of Brazil's oil - plans to increase its production from the current 2.3m barrels day to 4.1m in 2015.”
“More than 90% of the country's reservoirs are located in deep (over 400m; 1,300ft) or ultradeep (over 1,000m; 3,300ft) waters”
“and about 80% of the oil currently produced in Brazil already comes from these types of fields.”
“National oil company Petrobras - which producers more than 95% of Brazil's oil”
“The problem here in Brazil has always been one of inconsistency. One moment, we would be building dozens of ships all at the same time and then not have any orders for years... What we really need is predictability, and I think that we are…”
“Many of these rules were introduced in 2001 after an explosion sank a P36 rig and killed 11 workers in a deepwater field in the Campos basin.”
“water supplies in the area were already stretched and the reservoir would help ensure demand is met over the next 25 years”
“Martin Baggs, of TW, said the company supplies water to 8.5 million people.”
“Mr Wen made his remarks as workers at a Honda factory returned to work after a week-long strike over pay.”
“"We have sold in 40 days what took four months to sell in 2006," said Marcio Borges, marketing director at Panini Brazil, the company that manufactures the albums and stickers.”
“"There were shortages of stickers," said Mr Borges.”
“Revenue from newsagents selling stickers in Sao Paulo is up 40%, according to a local retailers' trade association.”
“"Sales of magazines and papers have been falling. The stickers help boost my business," said Ronaldo Faria, who has a news stand in the Pompeia district of Sao Paulo.”
“In Jacarei, a town 60km from Sao Paulo, newsagent Cesar Oliveira believes his sales have gone up 150% thanks to the sticker craze.”
“Where a packet of fives stickers sells for R$ 0.75 (roughly 40c/30p), a single rare figure can reach six times that amount.”
“"An elderly lady came here and spent R$150 in stickers one day," said Mr Faria - that is just under a third of the national monthly minimum wage.”
“"It has been much more intense in 2010. We were surprised with how well it has been going and couldn't meet demand at some stages. There were shortages of stickers," said Mr Borges.”
“begin in the next financial year with completion by the end of 2012”
“News Corporation's initial offer of 700 pence a share, which values BSkyB at around £12bn, was rejected.”
“BSkyB said it wants "in excess of 800p" per share.”
“News of the bid pushed shares in BSkyB up 16.6%.”
“The combination of Sky with his newspapers, such as the Sun and the SundayTimes, would generate annual revenues of around £8bn, compared with the £4.6bn income of the next largest player, the BBC.”
“British Sky Broadcasting was formed in 1990 by the merger of News Corporation's Sky Television and rival British Satellite Broadcasting.”
“Like-for-like sales, which pull out new store openings, rose 1.1% in the three months to 30 May, excluding petrol.”
“But when the return of VAT to 17.5% after its temporary cut was factored in, growth was just 0.1%.”
“The firm said higher fuel prices - up about 30% from a year ago - meant shoppers had less to spend on other things.”
“The trading update comes a week after Tesco's chief executive Sir Terry Leahy announced that he will be retiring in March of next year.”
“"Tesco is struggling to make the kind of headway to which the market has become accustomed," he said”
“Tesco said the long-term global economic recovery was "well underway" after it reported a 6.9% rise in total group-wide sales, excluding petrol.”
“The supermarket group's sales across Asia advanced 15.4%”
“while they added 7.3% in mainland Europe.”
“Lifted by new store openings, its sales growth for the three months to 30 May was strongest in the US, where it expanded by 37.8%.”
“"We're in good shape and well-positioned to deliver further growth as the economic environment continues to improve," said Sir Terry.”
“Tesco said its evidence of increased UK consumer spending came from a rise in sales of its more expensive "Finest" range of products.”
“In addition, it said sales of televisions were up "strongly as a result of our successful World Cup marketing campaign".”
“Our industries [have been] battered by shortage of power for a long time. This decision will cost millions of dollars in losses for the business," he said.”
“For the Guardian it is the total bill in dollars facing BP from the oil-spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The sum, it says, dwarfs many previous estimates of the cost of the clean-up operation as well as compensation.”
“We've sold off the fruits of the trees for three years in advance and got the money to pay for my daughter's wedding," Mr Singh told the BBC.”
“The trees are our fixed deposits," he said.”
“Mr Singh paid for the weddings of his three daughters after selling fruits of trees he had planted at the time of their birth.”
“One medium-size mango orchard is valued at around 200,000 rupees ($4,245; £2,900) every season.”
“The villagers say they save a part of the money earned through the sale of fruits every year in a bank account opened in their daughter's name.”
“There are 3,000 banana boxes at stake - a fifth of the farm's weekly production.”
“"Do you think that a big multinational company would spend up to $1 more per box to get their bananas from Ecuador? Commercially, it would make no sense.”
“Do you think that a big multinational company would spend up to $1 more per box to get their bananas from Ecuador? Commercially, it would make no sense.”
“Demand for oil could rise by more than a third by 2030 Exxon says”
“On average, every single person uses two litres of the stuff a day.”
“around a quarter of all the world's oil”
“China's demand for oil is expected to double”
“That figure is pushing seven million now and set to rise to twice as much again by 2030.”
“that extra demand alone will add 10% to the world's consumption.”
“the Chinese currently consume just one litre of oil a day per head, compared with 11 litres in the United States.”
“If the country's oil demand were to reach US proportions, total world consumption would double.”
“The latest estimate from the International Energy Agency forecasts worldwide oil use may rise in 2010 by 1.7 million barrels a day.”
“The oil giant ExxonMobil suggests total demand for oil products could be 35% higher by 2030”
“The US census bureau predicts the world population in 2030 will be almost double that of 1980.”
“More widely, the World Energy Council thinks total global energy demand growth could be as much as 50% higher by 2030”
“Oil, natural gas and coal will still provide the vast majority of the world's energy needs, meeting close to four-fifths of global demand through 2030.”
“By 2030, global demand for natural gas is expected to be half as much again as it is now.”
“Solar, wind, and other alternatives contribute little over 1% of America's energy needs.”
“Biomass could be adding another 4% by the end of the next decade.”
“Present estimates suggest production from all existing oilfields being exploited is waning by 3% per year.”
“So with demand rising by some 2%, that is a widening gap that the industry cannot bridge”
“doubling annual environmental inspections by Decc to drilling rigs.”
“BP's interest in the Deepwater Horizon project amounted to 65%”
“10 Transocean rigs operating in UK waters”
“The firm employing the stewards, Stallion Security, told AFP news agency that the workers had been 'misled' by jealous commercial rivals who failed to get the World Cup tender.”
“Quinn Insurance employs 600 people in County Fermanagh”
