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“cost it more than £1m.”
“more than 1,000 flights had to be grounded in April and May.”
“about 63,000 passengers were affected at East Midlands Airport.”
“passenger traffic was down 31%.”
“East Midlands Airport has revealed flight cancellations caused by the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud cost it more than £1m.”
“Brian Conway, the Castle Donington airport's head of external affairs, said more than 1,000 flights had to be grounded in April and May.”
“Mr Conway said about 63,000 passengers were affected at East Midlands Airport.”
“Most of the disruption was caused through April, so when we look at the figures compared with the previous year - passenger traffic was down 31%.”
“Mr Conway said there should be a compensation deal for all European countries affected. "The compensation we're looking for is a Europe-wide package," he said.”
“Mr Obama had previously visited Louisiana on three occasions.”
“This is Mr Obama's fourth visit to the oil-affected area.”
“BP saw its shares fall by some 9% in afternoon trading in London.”
“Earlier, BP said the cost of cleaning up the oil spillage had risen to $1.6bn (£1bn).”
“BP placed a containment cap on its damaged oil well earlier this month; by last week, it was collecting about 15,000 barrels of oil a day.”
“It is estimated that some 40,000 barrels (1.7 million gallons) of oil a day might have been gushing out before the well was capped.”
“The engineering firm Weir Group is to buy a Malaysian company for £138m.”
“Under the deal, the Glasgow-based company will assume £19m of debt but it said it would start paying for itself by 2011.”
“Weir Group employs 9,000 people worldwide mostly in the mining and oil and gas sectors.”
“Linatex's established manufacturing capability, particularly in Malaysia and China, and its extensive customer network, provides an excellent platform for growth.”
“A £1m plan to redevelop a Dumfries and Galloway town hall has secured national backing.”
“Dumfries and Galloway Council agreed to transfer the hall to the trust for £1 last year.”
“In 1969, Dean went into the sausage business, starting the successful Jimmy Dean Meat Company.”
“sold the company in 1984 to Sara Lee Foods but continued to be its chairman and TV spokesperson.”
“Mo Ibrahim set up the $5m (£3m) prize for African ex‑leaders to encourage good governance on the continent.”
“The winners receive $5m over 10 years, and then $200,000 a year for life.”
“Botswana's former President Festus Mogae won the prize in 2008 after two terms at the helm of one of Africa's least corrupt and most prosperous nations.”
“Charles Lambie has donated £250,000 to keep Canterbury's Westgate Tower Museum open”
“I bought the adjoining building, which is an old jail, several years before.”
“The investment would be used to improve access to the museum and jail and provide a cafe”
“in the hope that visitor numbers would then be boosted enough to stop the attraction from losing any more money”
“All the shirts were laundered free of charge by Sunlight Laundry at Bishop Auckland in County Durham.”
“They will be demolished and replaced by 377 houses and apartments.”
“20% of which will be affordable homes.”
“Construction work is due to start in October and is expected to be completed by 2018.”
“Resolution, which wants to become the UK's biggest provider of life insurance, said it hoped to be able to announce an agreed deal this month.”
“If the sale went ahead, Axa would keep its other UK businesses - Wealth Management and Direct Protection.”
“In its statement, Resolution said the deal would lead to cost savings, particularly in the areas of sales and marketing and support costs.”
“new orders contracting for the 27th consecutive month and at their sharpest rate since March 2009.”
“with the rate of inflation accelerating to the most marked in nineteen months.”
“Majestic bought Lay & Wheeler in March of last year”
“Since last year, its customers can buy a minimum of six bottles, down from 12.”
“It added that the move to a six-bottle minimum purchase had seen the number of its customers rise by 54,000 to 472,000 across its 153 outlets.”
“Majestic also announced that chairman Simon Burke would be standing down in August after 10 years on the board.”
“The company plans to open a further 12 outlets during this financial year, with an eventual aim of expanding the group to 250 shops.”
“contracts worth £750,000 allocated locally.”
“They say this year alone would be worth about £1m to local businesses and over the next five years the event would bring 100,000 university students to Carmarthenshire.”
“Around 1,000 will be employed running the festival with 15.5 miles (25km) of security fencing erected around the stages, activities and campsites.”
“The project aims to place 350 students and graduates in businesses”
“The initiative aims to place 350 people with firms over the next three years.”
“The Business Trends survey from accountants BDO fell to 97 in May from 103.3 the previous month - the largest drop since the survey began.”
“The accountancy firm forecasts that economic growth will remain below an annualised 1% in the final three month of this year.”
“Government forecasts for growth in 2011 should now be between 1.5% and 2.5%, well below the 3% to 3.5% that the previous government estimated, the firm said.”
“BDO's survey is compiled by the Centre for Economics and Business Research and covers 11,000 companies from a range of industries.”
“Mr Goeldi, the manager of an engineering firm, was held along with Rachid Hamdani, who works for a construction company.”
“Now the Taiwanese company has said it will more than double the wages of staff by October.”
“has just been given a 30% pay increase, with a promise of a further 70% to come”
“Analysts believe the 30% hike alone will reduce company earnings by a fifth this year.”
“Officials there say they are one of 40 lingerie firms in the city of Foshan.”
“The very fact that Foxconn needs to raise wages by 70% to stabilise its workforce, shows how low paid the workers were there," he says.”
“China's pay packets are on average still just a quarter of the size of those in Brazil for example.”
“Reserves of 800 million barrels of oil have been documented offshore Ghana”
“Ghana is expected to become a net exporter of oil in 2011”
“Then oil was discovered in 2007”
“In the first quarter of this year orders have jumped 200% compared to the first quarter of the previous year”
“He believes that Ghana should use 40% of its oil revenue to improve its infrastructure”
“They're incredibly expensive - something like £60 per light bulb, so economically it's not quite there yet, "When you need 10,000 light bulbs at a festival around the campsites, £60 a bulb doesn't do it."”
“The rising cost of sending waste to landfill (the tax alone is £40 a tonne, set to increase to £72 by 2013) is just one factor organisers are all too well aware of.”
“They're incredibly expensive - something like £60 per light bulb, so economically it's not quite there yet,”
“I remain very confident that Mr Pickles will make the right decision for the sake of new jobs in Shepway, for investment in the future for our young people and for the wellbeing of our local communities,”
“The Committee to Save Oyster-Farming - an ad-hoc group set up in answer to the crisis - has warned that 40% of the country's 4,800 mainly family-run businesses could be forced to close, with the loss of thousands of jobs.”
“with many farms losing 80-100% of their stocks of naissains”
“some 90% of oysters are sold”
“40% of the country's 4,800 mainly family-run businesses could be forced to close”
“150m euro rescue package”
“70% of these naissains will be dead”
“80% of hatchery shellfish are so-called 'triploid' sterile oysters”
“first in the 1920s and then again in 1970”
“has only been cultivated in France for some 40 years”
“17C (62.6F)”
“The BBC said in May that comic Jason Manford would be joining Bleakley in July as co-host of the One Show from Monday to Thursday. Chris Evans will present on Friday.”
“The Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Mexican Gulf on 20 April, killing 11 workers and creating a huge leak.”
“BP, which has many US as well as UK employees and shareholders, has not been known as British Petroleum since 1998.”
“Obama has said he would have fired BP's top executive Tony Hayward if he were in charge of the company”
“The US are not seeking to undermine the value of BP. They know full well there are many thousands of people working for BP in the US and they have also got many shareholders, as in the UK.”
“In one case an online retailer offered shirts at £17.99 instead of the typical price of about £35, Mr Coventry said.”
“Wagtail UK, of Holywell, Flintshire, is shortlisted for a Home Office Supplier Value for Money award.”
“The firm [...] will learn next month if it has won the award.”
“The RBS pledge applies to branches in about 100 communities”
“Other elements of the charter include 200 branches opening earlier and closing later on weekdays”
“After surveying opinion from 30,000 customers, Mr Hartzer said:”
“The pledge, also covering its NatWest subsidiary, is part of a 14-point customer charter published on Sunday”
“The promise not to leave towns without any bank facilities would apply to about 100 communities across Britain.”
“Other elements of the charter include 200 branches opening earlier and closing later on weekdays, and more branches opening on Saturdays.”
“The pledges extend to giving customers annual reviews of their finances, early-warning support for customers facing financial difficulties, and clearer information on services.”
“After surveying opinion from 30,000 customers, Mr Hartzer said...”
“The pledge, also covering its NatWest subsidiary, is part of a 14-point customer charter published on Sunday.”
“We have no financial problems. Qom is Iran's holiest place and thousands come for tourism, so building work is always needed.”
“BP has said the device was collecting about 15,000 barrels of oil a day last week.”
“There will be an extra early train leaving Berwick before 0600 and an additional weekday service leaving Kings Cross at 1930 each day.”
“The timetable, which is being put together by Network Rail, is still being developed and is due to be introduced on 22 May 2011.”
