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“unless provided with a £30m bond”
“tried fraudulently to sell the Ritz for £250m”
“hotel, which is valued at £600m, for £250m”
“gave the three men £1m as deposit”
“Not in my wildest dreams would I have expected that anyone would have access to a contract to purchase that asset for £200m.”
“Christian Sweeting refused to progress the deal unless provided with a £30m bond, which never materialised.”
“About 2,000 tonnes of crab are landed in the South Devon Bay area every year, but more than 60% is exported to France and Spain.”
“Publisher DC Thomson is set to close a print works in Dundee with the loss of up to 350 jobs.”
“DC Thomson & Co Ltd is a family-run company and employs more than 2,000 people.”
“The spokesman said the company would do "everything it could to minimise the number of compulsory redundancies" and it has begun a 90-day consultation with staff affected.”
“The shop in Tetbury in Gloucestershire opened in March 2008 and there is another store available online.”
“The shop in Tetbury in Gloucestershire opened in March 2008”
“The shop in Tetbury has been hugely successful so we are expanding the brand and making the product available to a wider audience.”
“We do get a lot of repeat customers for things like the jams and chutneys.”
“All of its profits will go to the Prince's Charities Foundation.”
“Mr Retout announced last month that he was taking a six month sabbatical from his role at Wrexham FC and also the Crusaders rugby league side.”
“He said after two years of non stop work at the Racecourse, he wanted time to recharge my batteries and to deal with some personal issues.”
“Brighton & Hove City Council hired a private recruitment agency to create the advert for four strategy directors who will each receive £125,000 a year.”
“the authority was aiming to find £15m in savings.”
“Opel, which owns the UK Vauxhall unit, wanted loan guarantees of more than 1bn euros (£900m) from Germany.”
“GM emerged from bankruptcy protection last July, and in May this year reported its first quarterly profit in nearly three years. The company also repaid $8.1bn in loans it had received from the US and Canadian governments.”
“Opel employs some 24,000 people in Germany, where it assembles Insignias, Astras and Corsas at four plants.”
“GM has said it will spend about 1.9bn euros on restructuring Opel, but is seeking 1.8bn euros in loan guarantees from European governments, including the 1.1bn euros from Germany.”
“It is estimated that by 2018, only 2% of employees will be paid in this way.”
“It added that banks were opening about 35,000 basic bank accounts a month and had met the previous government's target for new accounts last October.”
“The UK government agency for registering businesses employs 1,100 people.”
“around 200 staff also work at offices in Nantgarw, Rhondda Cynon Taf.”
“The so-called "London Living Wage" has been increased by 25p an hour to £7.85.”
“The minimum pay per hour pay now stands £2 higher than the national minimum wage of £5.80 per hour.”
“About 100 companies and local authorities offer the London Living Wage to their workers”
“four new firms have also signed up. Deloitte, Nomura, Prudential and Standard Chartered have now joined the group, the mayor said.”
“The wage rate is a 3.3% rise on last year's figure”
“and has increased by 17% since it was introduced five years ago.”
“More than 130 drawings were sent to Tesco to use for a possible store on the edge of Nottingham city centre.”
“It asked architects to submit plans for the site at Eastside and received 133 responses.”
“The number of architects aiming to design the site has been reduced to seven”
“and Tesco will choose a winner on 15 June.”
“He added the project would create up to 500 jobs”
“He had begun working for the Royal Mail in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, in June 2009 and had moved to the Essex depot four months later.”
“Antique jewellery worth at least £15,000 has been stolen during a burglary at a store in Surrey.”
“charges, which would be up to £20 a month”
“fee would range from £12 to £20 a month for full-time staff”
“part-time staff or occasional users could pay £1 a day instead of the monthly rate”
“review after 12 months”
“Staff have already had a real terms pay cut in two of the last three years”
“the pay rise in April 2010 was just 2.25% compared to the rate of inflation of 5.3%”
“With parking charges on top this is a cut of over 4% in pay for most staff”
“the trust's board made the decision following a six-week consultation with staff”
“It operates in 80 countries across the world and sells its products and services in more than 100.”
“It employs more than 80,000 people and runs 22,400 petrol stations globally.”
“has been sold by a Liverpool auction house for £190,000.”
“'The bidding started at £40,000, but quickly went up to £140,000. 'Bidding slowed a little then it continued to £190,000, so I thought it was sensible to get the hammer down.''”
“painted by George Clausen in 1896.”
“In the first year of the Public Facilities Grant Scheme over 130 organisations, including the Cambrian Woollen Mill in Powys and Llys Nini Animal Centre in Swansea, joined the scheme”
“The consortium, which includes Royal Bank of Scotland, said the move would be made for commercial reasons.”
“In 2001, fledgling airline Air Wales investigated the possibilty of running a transatlantic link.”
“And in 2002, it was understood a major American company was in talks to bring in a service between Cardiff and New York three times a week from 2003.”
“Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council are paying for the changes but said it will be six weeks before work can start.”
“We have dealt with this as quickly as we could ... and are treating the project as urgent.”
“Major structural works are required in order to provide the necessary alterations, but the final scheme has been agreed and tenders sent out to find a suitable builder, to enable the work to commence.”
“The deal for 32 double-decker A380s brings the number ordered by Emirates to 90”
“The A380s, made by EADS's Airbus unit, have a list price of $11.5bn (£8bn)”
“EADS's shares were trading up more than 5% at 17.09 euros, a 52-week high”
“Emirates airline carried 27.5 million passengers last year, an increase of 4.7%”
“The airline is already using 10 of the A380s, which typically carry about 525 passengers”
“Emirates airline carried 27.5 million passengers last year, an increase of 4.7%.”
“The airline is already using 10 of the A380s, which typically carry about 525 passengers.”
“It is already to many of us a miracle that Emirates now already has more seats on intercontinental routes than Air France and British Airways together, with a relatively small home market.”
“the news came in the week that global airlines upgraded their profit forecasts after the worst recession for decades, according to figures from the International Air Transport Authority.”
“He said a small number of institutions were already "in serious financial difficulty".”
“About 1,400 council staff will work from the complex.”
“Construction of the offices is expected to start by the end of the year and is estimated to take two years to complete.”
“losing about £1,000 a week.”
“At present members pay an annual fee of £15, £11 of which goes to the county association.”
“Mr McDonald said that 75% of the club's membership needed to agree with the plans.”
“However, Mr Naylor said that it was 75% of the town branch's 358 members that needed to approve the plans, not 75% of the club's 220 members.”
“We've got over 10,000 members in Cornwall and 358 members in Redruth.”
“The new departures terminal took 18 months to construct”
“is expected to handle 900,000 passengers this year”
“It was built to cope with three million passengers by 2015”
“The expansion is expected to create more than 1,900 jobs by 2015”
“is twice the size of the old building and took 18 months to complete”
“It will also see retail and catering space at the site tripled”
“Nearly a quarter of UK consumers say they would buy fake World Cup branded goods to save money, according to a survey by the internet shopping search engine, Kelkoo.”
“counterfeiting of South Africa 2010 products is rife, with about a fifth of goods likely to be fake.”
“could lose legitimate businesses some £50m ($72m).”
“its most recent seizure of fakes was of 1000 replica England football shirts timed for the World Cup market.”
“The majority - 65% - said they had not bought counterfeits”
“24% said they had done so unwittingly”
“11% admitting to have bought knocked-off goods in full knowledge of the fact they were not genuine.”
“It is estimated something like £550m a year nationally is lost to the Exchequer”
“The Society to Sustain and Support the Rural Countryside is raising money to buy the Pwllhai site by selling shares... Mr Rees said a housing developer from Cardiff had already put an offer in for the land, and local people had two weeks t…”
“The share scheme, to encourage local people to buy shares for £200 each, was launched at the meeting on Tuesday in an attempt to raise money.”
“It wants to build a car park for 100 vehicles, and hopes to develop a community shop to promote local goods.”
“There are several empty shops in the town centre and shops that set up there cannot make a go of it.”
“Commercial websites are charging up to £1.50 per minute to access information which is provided for free by the government.”
“one website was providing a number giving child benefit advice that would cost nearly £30 if listened to in full.”
“Digital Select Ltd also charges £11.69 to apply for child benefit.”
“Dialling the 0844 number costs 5p per minute, which is substantially more than HMRC's own 0845 number, which costs between 0.5p and 2p per minute.”
“In July 2009 the phone regulator PhonepayPlus fined Digital Select Ltd £50,000 for serious breaches of its code.”
