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“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.”
“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.”
