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“The £86m expansion is expected to boost production at the Leven facility to about 30m cases a year and create about 400 jobs.”
“Building company Rok estimated 150 jobs would be created during construction.”
“Diageo said the project would offset the loss of 700 jobs at the Port Dundas distillery in Glasgow and the Johnnie Walker bottling plant in Kilmarnock.”
“The new expanded facility should be operational by the summer of next year, the company reported.”
“In September Diageo announced it was going ahead with the closure of the bottling plant in Kilmarnock despite strong protests and government intervention.”
“Residents of Dores, near Inverness, set up a trust to manage the £100,000 donated by RockNess since it started four years ago in a nearby field.”
“The authority said it expected a programme of summer repairs to be completed by September.”
“We expect this programme to be finished by September.”
“At the start of March we set the target of raising £50,000, and as of the last few days we've totalled up all the money we've received in terms of membership, seat sponsorship and also grants and we've reached the £50,000 total now.”
“When we announced last year that we were to sell Crosfield House, we said our preferred course of action would be to sell the home as a going concern.”
“Crosfield House is one of the largest employers in the town”
“I can confirm that the board of trustees has found a suitable buyer for Crosfield House in Rhayader. We have received an acceptable offer from an established Welsh care home provider”
“The agreement is for Crosfield House to be taken over as a going concern with no changes to staff.”
“the new park will operate from the 28-acre (11.3 hectare) Prince of Wales Dock.”
“At the launch, more than 60,000 households were invited to join the RecycleBank service.”
“Households are awarded points for the amount they recycle and these can be redeemed for discounts and offers at more than 100 local and national retail outlets, restaurants and leisure facilities, or donated to local schools.”
“Absence through sickness costs the UK economy £17bn, the CBI estimates”
“The average UK worker took 6.4 days off through sickness last year, the lowest number since 1987, a survey by the CBI suggests.”
“This compares with 6.7 days in 2007, the last year surveyed.”
“However, the total of 180 million sick days last year cost the UK economy £16.8bn, the business group estimated.”
“The CBI/Pfizer Absence and Workplace Health Survey had 241 respondents from the public and private sector, which together employ almost 1.3 million people.”
“Respondents to the survey estimated that about 15% of the total number of sick days were not actually due to genuine illness.”
“The cost to the economy of so-called 'sickies' was, therefore, £2.5bn, the CBI said.”
“In the public sector, employees took on average 8.3 days off last year, compared with their counterparts in the private sector who took just 5.8 days off.”
“Although the rate of employee absence has fallen in the public sector, it is still a lot higher than in the private sector, and this issue should be addressed, especially given that the public finances are strained, said Katja Hall, direct…”
“We estimate that £5.5bn could be saved by 2015-16 if the public sector matched the private sector's absence rate.”
“Airlines worldwide will make profits of $2.5bn (£1.7bn) in 2010, an industry body has said.”
“In March, the airline association had predicted global losses for airline businesses of $2.8bn.”
“We thought that it would take at least three years to recover the $81 billion (14.3%) drop in revenues in 2009," he added.”
“But the $62bn top‑line improvement this year puts us about 75% on the way to pre‑crisis levels.”
“The bulk of the revenue turnaround is predicted to come from Asia (excluding Japan), where Iata predicts 2010 GDP growth of 7%.”
“Meanwhile, the Iata report actually revised down its 2010 forecast profits for European carriers to a loss of $2.8bn, from $2.2bn.”
“Iata says the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud has also cost airlines some $1.8bn in lost revenues.”
“Burnley lost 7,500 private sector jobs between 1998 and 2008”
“About 7,500 private sector jobs disappeared in Burnley in a decade that saw 17,100 created in neighbouring Preston.”
“We've been increasing manufacturing production but of course as businesses become more efficient that doesn't necessarily turn into jobs.”
“We're seeing the signs now that that's working because we are seeing some of our advanced manufacturing companies starting to grow, and grow successful.”
“cleaners spending 13 hours less each week removing bins from under individual desks, adding up to an estimated annual saving of £4,968 across the department's six London offices”
“She said the 'bin the bin' report was 'drafted onsite by our facilities team at no extra cost to the department'.”
“Following proposals outlined in the 'Bin the Bin' report Defra opted to introduce binless offices and increase the use of recycling stations. After careful consideration we chose to purchase large executive recycle bins that are specifica…”
“BA has said it plans to fly more than three‑quarters of customers who booked flights during the current strike period”
“Last week, the airline announced that the number of passengers it carried in May fell by 14.2% from a year ago, partly due to the strikes”
“BA carried a total of 2.37 million passengers in May, down from 2.76 million a year earlier”
“This is a major investor, it would create over 1000 jobs in Northern Ireland and the message going out is that Northern Ireland is closed for business.”
“The trading association argue that the department store along with 19 other stores would increase out-of-town shopping.”
“Up to 2,000 jobs were to be created, including around 700 at the first John Lewis store in Ireland.”
“Scotland had one of the lowest rates of business start-ups of the 20 countries Scotland's low rate of business start-ups has worsened with the recession, according to new research.”
“Of 20 similar countries, only Belgium and Japan had lower entrepreneurial activity during the last 11 surveys.”
“For Scotland, this declined by 18% between 2008 and 2009, leaving it at 3.6%.”
“The UK rate for last year was 5.8%.”
“more than two-thirds of those with businesses at an early stage of formation said it was tougher-going during 2009 than the previous year.”
“The proportion of people intending to start up a business has been lower than the figure for the whole UK since 2004.”
“And the number who believe there are good opportunities for those who set up in business fell, with the recession, from 33% to 20% last year.”
“comparable countries across Scandinavia have 40% of people seeing opportunity for entrepreneurs.”
“Scotland has a particularly low level of investment funding in friends' and families' businesses: a third of the UK rate and a tenth of the rate in Scandinavian countries.”
“in Scotland where 77% of Scots do not have a family business background”
“Scotland faces a triple economic tsunami - reduced government spending, declining entrepreneurial activity and markedly increased unemployment particularly in the Neet (not in employment, education or training) category.”
“My sales are down at least 10% already. And it will get worse.”
“It's already an economic disaster," he says. "My clients have been getting cancellations left right and centre.”
“Every year 80 million people make their way to the beaches and theme parks of the Sunshine State. It generates $60bn annually, and provides employment for millions of people.”
“BP has sent 380 people out there with rakes and shovels. That's prehistoric”
“a truck might get stopped a hundred times on a long route.”
“One estimate made by an organisation called Trade Hub, says a journey that would take five days in the US - say between Chicago and Newark - would take two to three weeks in West Africa, and cost $4,800 compared with $650 in the US.”
“This is even more remarkable when you realise that labour costs in the US are 25 times higher.”
“One journey which did have between 15-20 road blocks has been reduced to four or five,”
“Most of Mr Ismail's buses are 15-20 years old.”
“which the council estimates is worth £15m to the local economy every year.”
“plans for 200 homes on an old army camp.”
“£50m scheme near Crickhowell.”
“The county council made a case for the allocation of a sum of money, just under £2m for planning obligations, to mitigate the effects of this large development and the impact it will have on some of the council's vital services. The develo…”
“If we've only got 80 or 90 houses within the village - and it's a scattered village, it doesn't have a heart or a centre - then 200 extra houses would just swamp us.”
“the scheme is in three phases and it is envisaged that there will be 20 affordable houses per phase so the provision is spread across the seven to ten-year development period.”
“129 new homes were needed in the Crickhowell and surrounding area up to 2014.”
“won 16 out of 27 awards”
“The Ernst & Young Scottish Item Club has predicted growth of 0.8%, 0.2% lower than the UK estimate.”
“It also said 30,000 public sector job cuts in the next four years would hamper economic performance.”
“According to the report, the volume of Scottish manufactured exports has fallen by 30% in the past decade.”
“Exports now account for about 20% of Scotland's GDP, compared with about 30% for the rest of the UK.”
“The public sector plays a larger part in the Scottish economy, contributing more than 30% to GDP growth over the past 10 years, compared with 20% in the rest of the UK.”
“overall unemployment would peak at 225,000 this year before dropping back in 2011.”
“BP says it has spent more than $1bn so far on clean-up and containment efforts since the Deepwater horizon rig exploded and sank in April with the loss of 11 workers.”
“But BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said he was confident the cap would work and capture up to 90% the spill.”
“The oil company... has been coming under fire for spending a reported $50m on TV advertising to improve its image while the crisis was still going on.”
“The annual weekend of racing is estimated to be worth about £2.5m to the local economy.”
“up to 10,000 people”
“over the past five years”
“He was one of the few photographers to shoot two Pirelli calendars and was famously bad-tempered.”
“The TUC says a third of those on work placements and internships are unpaid.”
“One in five businesses are expected to offer work placements and internships this summer, but many - especially in areas like the arts and media - will not pay those employed even though they do productive work.”
“Graduate Laurie Walmsley told the BBC he had worked unpaid for a year: "I did four internships in a year. I worked for a couple of charities, I worked for a broadcaster and I worked here at Parliament."”
“In fact, one of the internships cost me £400 just to cover my own transport and food costs.”
“British Airways says it plans to fly more than three‑quarters of customers who booked flights - which amounts to 65,000 people a day over the strike period.”
“These departures will be part of the 80% of long-haul flights it aims to operate from Heathrow next week, up from 70% during the previous walkout, which ended on Wednesday.”
“It also expects to run 60% of short-haul services from the airport, up from 55% during the previous five-day stoppage.”
“Earlier this week, it emerged that the number of passengers British Airways carried in May fell by 14.2% from a year ago, as the strikes hit the airline.”
“BA carried a total of 2.37 million passengers in May, down from 2.76 million a year earlier.”
“Revenue passenger kilometres, a measure of how many full seats flew, were down 11.5%.”
“Meanwhile, Unite has announced it will increase strike pay, with its members now receiving £45 a day, up from £30 in previous strikes.”
“It is also considering offering interest‑free loans of £1,000 for hardship cases.”
“41% of parents deliberately lie when filling out policy applications.”
