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“He owned the 150-year lease on the pavilion, under whose roof are several bars and restaurants.”
“Anglo-Irish Bank has been trying to broker a sale for the past year, but without success.”
“As part of negotiations, Sheridan transferred the lease to Odyssey Pavilion LLP last year and it is they who have been forced into administration.”
“A spokesperson for the Odyssey Trust, which is the ultimate owner of the Odyssey complex including the Arena, W5, the Pavilion and the car parks”
“It is important to stress that this news does not affect the Arena or W5”
“Winning the Uefa Champions League will be worth 120m euros (£104m; $151m) to the victorious club”
“Either Bayern Munich or Inter Milan will net that sum by winning Saturday's final”
“The loser will not go home empty-handed either, gaining 70m euros.”
“The final match alone is expected to be worth upwards of 351.5m euros to the European economy as a whole.”
“The host city, Madrid, is expected to benefit to the tune of 50m euros.”
“Toyota is to invest $50m (£35m) in US electric car company Tesla Motors, as the two firms announced a joint partnership to build electric vehicles.”
“The deal will give the Japanese giant a stake of about 2.5% in Tesla, which will build its new saloon model at a Toyota factory near San Francisco.”
“Tesla has only 500 employees and makes just 15 cars per week.”
“he left the NIH in 1992 and set up a private research institute, The Institute for Genomic Research.”
“Workers at Vauxhall's plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton have agreed to a two-year pay freeze as part of a Europe-wide restructuring deal.”
“GM said the UK agreement would save it 26.5m euros (£23.1m), with cuts worth 265m euros planned across Europe.”
“The two-year pay freeze in the UK has already begun, GM said, starting at the beginning of 2010.”
“a total of 519 jobs have gone from the Luton plant, which makes the Vivaro van, and at the company's headquarters.”
“In Germany, Vauxhall's sister brand Opel has agreed cuts worth 177m euros with its workers, with about 4,000 jobs expected to be lost.”
“Opel/Vauxhall's chief executive Nick Reilly said the European agreements with workers were 'important steps' in the process of creating a new sustainable company.”
“General Motors initially planned to sell off Opel/Vauxhall last year as it sought to streamline its operations following the global collapse of the car market. However, it cancelled the planned sale in November, pledging instead to restruc…”
“Highland's planning, environment and development committee will be asked to agree to underwrite the board by up to £100,000.”
“About 50 "green" properties are being built on the outskirts of Inverness for August's Scottish Housing Expo.”
“Its board has forecast the exhibition will attract 30,000 visitors.”
“Tickets have been priced at £9 for adults and £4.50 for school age children, but discounted tickets are also available.”
“A ninth employee has jumped to his death at Taiwanese iPhone manufacturer Foxconn, China's state media reports.”
“Xinhua said 21-year-old Nan Gang leapt from a four-storey factory in China's Shenzhen in the early hours.”
“Apple said it had investigated accusations of bad employment practices by Foxconn stemming from a June 2006 complaint, and found the claims to be largely unfounded.”
“However, it concluded that some employees were working more than Foxconn's mandated maximum during peak production times, and as many as a quarter of them were not taking at least one day off a week.”
“Foxconn says it has hired 100 counsellors and invited monks to help workers at a new Employee Care Centre and trained its medical staff to provide emotional support.”
“Ninth employee has jumped to his death at Taiwanese iPhone manufacturer Foxconn”
“21-year-old Nan Gang leapt from a four-storey factory in China's Shenzhen in the early hours”
“A total of 11 Foxconn employees in China have tried to kill themselves this year - two have survived”
“Ten of the employees worked at Foxconn's campuses in Shenzhen”
“Foxconn is part of Hon Hai Precision, the world's largest maker of consumer electronics, and employs 800,000 workers worldwide, mostly in China”
“as many as a quarter of them were not taking at least one day off a week”
“Foxconn says it has hired 100 counsellors and invited monks to help workers at a new Employee Care Centre”
“The worker, identified by Xinhua as 19-year old Rong Bo, died in the city of Langtang early this year”
“A similar investigation into the death of 16-year old Wang Lingyan - who was found dead in a dormitory at the same site - concluded she died from cardiac arrest, government spokeswoman Wang Qiunu told Xinhua”
“£1,000 reward”
“More than 1,500 people are employed in hotels in the capital alone.”
“The number of hotel beds grew by 30% last year in the city”
“and is set to grow by another 30% this year.”
“create around 400 jobs”
“and the football club would be among the top 25 firms in the city.”
“Two-way trade exceeds $100bn (£69bn) a year.”
“Around 40% of Taiwan's exports go to China.”
“Taiwanese investments in China have reached $200bn (£139bn).”
“That adds to the £401m it lost in the 2008-9 financial year, but as it was less than expected, BA shares rose.”
“It is estimated that strikes by cabin crew in March cost BA £43m.”
“That adds to the £401m it lost in the 2008-9 financial year...”
“Revenues at the airline were down £1bn on last year, BA said...”
“...though it managed to cut costs by nearly £990m - a £600m saving coming from lower fuel costs over the year.”
“the main UK, French and German indexes had lost more than 2% at lunchtime”
“London's FTSE 100 below 5,000 for the first time since November”
“In London, the FTSE ended down 0.2% to 5,063”
“Germany's Dax finishing 0.7% lower.”
“Dow Jones later ended up 1.3%.”
“If only half of these polices are implemented, it will give enterprise and wealth creation in Wales and the UK as a whole a major, major boost.”
“Arnab Basu, chief executive of Durham-based hi-tech small firm Kromek - which makes 3D X-ray machines - said he most welcomed the pledge to not "gold plate" or add to Europe-wide regulations.”
“the move to the 150-acre Rose Bowl site”
“A nine-hole golf course has also been installed as another revenue earner, and there are plans to enlarge it to an 18-hole championship-length course at a cost of about £5m”
“And there are plans to built a four star residential hotel in the environs of the Rose Bowl stadium”
“When I joined I realised rather quickly that my cricket club was at risk of going out of business... The move to the Rose Bowl caused serious financial problems... With the club insolvent by about of £1.2m and the move to the 150-acre Rose…”
“it continues to play at the impressive 9,000 seater Rose Bowl stadium on the outskirts of Southampton, currently in the process of being extended to 15,000 through the addition of two new stands.”
“Of the 15,000 permanent seats, which the expanded stadium will ultimately hold, some 6,000 will be under cover.”
“The use of a further 10,000 temporary seating places can then increase the maximum capacity to 25,000 seats when needed.”
“A nine-hole golf course has also been installed as another revenue earner, and there are plans to enlarge it to an 18-hole championship-length course at a cost of about £5m.”
“The plan, unveiled last week by PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, will involve a 5% cut to public sector salaries.”
“It is reckoned that as much as 25 billion barrels of oil could still be extracted from British waters.”
“There could be 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent left to exploit, but the UK competes against every other basin in the world for investment and I am committed to make sure that we have a licensing regime and investment environment that …”
“keep its successful supply chain anchored here. We need to keep working together to improve the UK industry's global competitive position so that it can attract the substantial investment that will be required to explore for and develop th…”
“Earlier, the new cabinet minister attended the All Energy conference and exhibition in Aberdeen - a showcase for the renewable energy industry.”
“Mr Huhne visited Apache North Sea, which has taken over the Forties field from BP.”
“He and his colleagues are already collaborating with pharmaceutical and fuel companies to design and develop chromosomes for bacteria that would produce useful fuels or even new vaccines.”
“The Lanarkshire site was closed prematurely in January 1992.”
“About 1,200 jobs were cut at the site soon after earlier closures had affected about 6,000 jobs in the area.”
“Under an agreement on industry privatisation, British Steel were meant to keep the plant running until 1994.”
“Scottish Secretary Ian Lang had tried to persuade British Steel chairman Sir Robert Scholey to leave the plant 'ticking over' until the market conditions improved.”
“I was dismayed to learn of the recommendation which the board is to consider on 8 January concerning early closure of the remaining operations at Ravenscraig”
“Prevailing commercial conditions were in his words 'bloody awful'.”
“The remaining jobs at Ravenscraig - some 1,200 - would go.”
“To try and offset the inevitable surge in unemployment and economic trauma the government established a special Economic Zone (EZ) in the area.”
“Concern was also raised over what turned out to be substantial decontamination costs and hundreds of jobs put in risk on the railways.”
“The past year saw an unsuccessful attempt by the previous Labour government to privatise the company led by Lord Mandelson, which was scuppered by the unwillingness of rival postal services to lodge a bid. Royal Mail also had to deal with …”
“The Conservative-Lib Dem government said it would seek 'an injection of private capital', without saying how much of the mail group would be up for sale.”
“Earlier this week NBC announced it was ditching Heroes after four series.”
“Vaccine producer Novartis, for example, posted an 8% jump in profit in 2009.”
“the pharmaceutical companies, which had invested around $4bn in developing the swine flu vaccine”
“Cable firms are currently charged a business tax on the value of any newly installed fibre, regardless of the size of the network.”
“At Heathrow, it said it would operate more than 60% of long-haul flights and more than 50% of short-haul flights.”
“disciplinary action taken against more than 50 of its members.”
“We are confident that thousands of cabin crew will ignore Unite's strike call and help us fly more than 70% of the customers who were booked to fly with us in the period targeted.”
“Six years after her short movie The Most Beautiful Man in the World was nominated for Cannes' best short film prize, British film-maker Alicia Duffy has returned to the French Riviera.”
“38-year-old”
“Like the Academy waited for 82 years to give a woman an Oscar just because they didn't like her ex-husband.”
“spent two years shadowing David Yates, as he directed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.”
“Crow Stone won a coveted Cannes award in 2001.”
“The Most Beautiful Man in the World, in 2003.”
“I just asked him for £25,000 and the guy actually gave me a book of signed cheques.”
