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“12-year-old Bella”
“Estate agents claimed the packs, which typically cost between £299 and £350, were stunting the housing market recovery.”
“£3.2bn from shareholders to spend on adapting the UK's power networks for renewable sources of energy.”
“shares to fall 7%”
“£22bn in the UK over the next five years.”
“annual profits of £2.2bn for last year, up from £1.4bn the previous year.”
“down 43.5p at 576.5p at the close of trading in London.”
“between now and 2020”
“over the last four years”
“Without sponsorship, he relies on income from tickets (which at £65 for a day or £110 for two days, not including camping, are at the higher end of the market given the length of the event and the relatively few acts) as well as sales of f…”
“Last year's Hop Farm made a loss - largely because the headliners, such as Paul Weller, were not a big enough draw to sell sufficient tickets.”
“Besides the cash for the sponsorship - which industry sources say is likely to have run into tens of thousands of pounds (the equivalent of perhaps selling an extra 500 tickets) - the festival also benefits from Waitrose's marketing clout,…”
“With the golf club - owned by Welsh telecoms billionaire Sir Terry Matthews - investing no less than £16m in improvements, Ms Lloyd says most of the contractors, workers and suppliers have come from the local economy.”
“With the golf club - owned by Welsh telecoms billionaire Sir Terry Matthews - investing no less than £16m in improvements”
“She also said the CBI did not want any more business taxes, warning they would hit jobs, enterprise and growth.”
“In order to catch up, EU governments must double their annual spending on research and development to 11bn euros (£9.4bn) by 2020, she said.”
“Nine telecoms firms, including market leaders Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications, took part in more than 180 rounds of bidding over 34 days.”
“"She requested an internship but nothing has been set in stone yet," a spokesperson for Treacy said.”
“before opening his first shop next door in 1994.”
“He spent 10 years designing hats for Karl Lagerfield at Chanel”
“was appointed an OBE in 2007.”
“Oil has been spewing into the Gulf since the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, leased by oil giant BP, exploded off the coast of Louisiana on 20 April and sank two days later.”
“Car production jumped 53% in April in comparison with the same period last year, as it was the first full month of the government's car scrappage scheme.”
“Gas and oil production rose 27.5% and 1.8% respectively.”
“Nine chip makers have been fined 331m euros (£283.1m, $404.2m) by European Union regulators for illegally fixing prices.”
“A 10th chip maker, Micron, was also part of the price-fixing cartel but escaped a fine in return for alerting the competition authorities.”
“Samsung received the biggest single fine of 146m euros.”
“The second biggest was 57m euros, which was levied on Germany's Infineon.”
“All the fines were reduced by 10% because the companies co-operated with the probe.”
“The cartel, in operation between 1998 and 2002, involved a 'network of contacts' who shared secret information.”
“The investigation began in 2002, when Micron blew the whistle on the cartel.”
“As the procedure is applied to new cases it is expected to speed up investigations significantly.”
“All but one of the companies, Germany's Infineon, are non-EU businesses.”
“Some 10 million users have joined Facebook since the recent privacy changes,”
“received $125,000 in donations to help get it off the ground”
“Facebook currently has more than 400 million users around the world”
“The CBI said the civil service had to follow the lead of the private sector, where average pay fell by 0.9% last year.”
“By contrast, it said wages in the public sector increased by 2.8% in 2009.”
“The Sugababes' fourth line-up have been together since September 2009”
“Buena is currently working on her second solo album”
“following the release of her debut Real Girl in 2007”
“Donaghy left in 2001”
“original group was formed in 1998”
“Sweet 7, debuted and peaked at number 14 on the UK chart”
“making it the group's lowest charting album since 2000's One Touch”
“currently recording the group's eighth studio album”
“has threatened to abandon $15bn (£10.5bn) of new projects unless plans for a mining tax are watered down or axed”
“has proposed a 40% tax on the profits of mining firms”
“has plans for two mining projects in the Pilbara region of west Australia, one costing $9bn and the other $6bn”
“Coal prices have doubled since the beginning of 2009”
“expand them from the current 170 to 400”
“expand the number of its Toby Carvery sites from 133 to 300”
“The regulator is writing to more than 38,000 people whose names, addresses and telephone numbers are on the list.”
“BA reduced the number of cabin crew on long-haul flights from 15 to 14 and introduced a two-year pay freeze from 2010.”
“These included a single on-board management grade, no seniority, promotion on merit, and pay set at market rate plus 10%.”
“It also opposes disciplinary action being taken against more than 50 union members.”
“Standard Life Investments, which owns about 7% of BA's shares”
“when BA reduced the number of cabin crew on long‑haul flights from 15 to 14 and introduced a two‑year pay freeze from 2010”
“pay set at market rate plus 10%”
“opposes disciplinary action being taken against more than 50 union members”
“BA Heathrow services were badly hit by a seven‑day strike in March”
“The union's grievance goes back to November last year, when BA reduced the number of cabin crew on long-haul flights from 15 to 14 and introduced a two-year pay freeze from 2010.”
“When cabin crew last went on strike in March, the airline said that staff who took part in the strike would lose their travel perks permanently, including no longer being allowed to buy heavily discounted tickets.”
“We have never, never negotiated on these perks and we never will,”
“As BA stands on the brink of an ambitious merger with Iberia, the dispute seems like a damaging distraction from the task of securing the airline's future.”
“BA reduced the number of cabin crew on long-haul flights from 15 to 14”
“and introduced a two-year pay freeze from 2010.”
“the airline said that staff who took part in the strike would lose their travel perks permanently, including no longer being allowed to buy heavily discounted tickets.”
“We have never, never negotiated on these perks and we never will”
“As BA stands on the brink of an ambitious merger with Iberia”
“He admitted the incident had done more harm to the firm's reputation than any single person.”
“But Mr Schmidt said he did not want to use the firm's "engineers as an excuse". "They work for us," he said.”
“2,000 barrels a day - about 40%”
“Ryanair is to appeal against an Italian fine of 3m euros (£2.5m) for failing to help passengers after cancelling their flights during the volcanic ash crisis.”
“At a time when all airlines across Europe were cancelling thousands of flights and disrupting millions of passengers, it is extraordinary that Enac could investigate and then impose a three million euro fine only upon Ryanair, said the air…”
“Enac, accused Ryanair of failing to provide passengers at Rome's Ciampino airport with drinks, foods and accommodation as required by European law.”
“Asda, with 374 stores”
“and 170,000 staff in the UK”
“is to create 300 jobs at a home shopping centre in north London.”
“It also unveiled a £12m investment in frontline services”
“Asda, with 374 stores and 170,000 staff in the UK, is to create 300 jobs at a home shopping centre in north London.”
“It also unveiled a £12m investment in frontline services to reduce queues and assist customers.”
“sales, excluding fuel and VAT, were down 0.3%.”
“374 stores and 170,000 staff”
“300 jobs”
“£12m investment”
“first sales fall in four years”
“In the three months to 31 March sales, excluding fuel and VAT, were down 0.3%”
“Asda, with 374 stores and 170,000 staff in the UK”
“Asda is to create 300 jobs at a home shopping centre in north London”
“It also unveiled a £12m investment in frontline services to reduce queues and assist customers”
“British consumer price inflation jumped to a 17-month high in April, driven in part by higher prices for food”
“she will appear in three films over the summer blockbuster season - Tamara Drewe, Prince Of Persia and low-budget thriller The Disappearance Of Alice Creed.”
“Foxconn, the Taiwanese maker of the Apple iPhone, has hired counsellors and brought in Buddhist monks for its workers after a spate of suicides. ... The company employs 800,000 workers worldwide, mostly in China.”
“To prevent further suicides, the Fortune 500 company has hired 100 counsellors and invited monks to help workers at the new Employee Care Centre and trained its medical staff to provide emotional support.”
“Mr Ding pointed out that the company employed more than 400,000 people in Shenzhen, and in a workforce of that size, some people were bound to attempt suicide.”
“The average working day is eight hours and workers are allowed to do up to 80 hours of overtime a month, but they must take one day off a week.”
“BMW is recalling 122,000 of its motorbikes around the world- most for the second time - because of potential brake problems.”
“The motorcycles were manufactured between August 2006 and May 2009.”
“The number of bikes recalled accounts for around a third of all BMW bikes produced during that time, the company said.”
