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“it was just quite simply spending more money than it had. That could not be sustained once the owners weren't putting money in to support it.”
“even with the tax rate, even with the exchange rate, they are competing against each other [for players]”
“Liverpool and Standard Chartered, and Manchester United and AON”
“Portsmouth went into administration last season”
“Liverpool and Standard Chartered”
“and Manchester United and AON”
“Mr Kerviel currently works as a computer technician earning 2,300 euros a month.”
“though adds that tickets for two adults with a couple of young kids cost about £260 for a full weekend of entertainment, "which I'd say was pretty good value"”
“There is clearly a demand with 30,000 tickets selling out with months to spare for the event”
“Latitude's colourful mix of attractions saw tickets sell quickly”
“tickets for two adults with a couple of young kids cost about £260 for a full weekend of entertainment, "which I'd say was pretty good value"”
“Efforts to widen the demographic have included trialling reduced price tickets for teenagers and making camping an optional extra.”
“On Monday, the Indian carrier Kingfisher Airlines was formally invited to become the 13th member of Oneworld”
“By joining Oneworld, we will be able to offer our guests travel to more than 800 destinations in 150 countries”
“It took them four days just to organise a conference call”
“the 13th member of Oneworld”
“An explosion in a natural gas pipeline in Texas has killed one worker and injured eight others, US media report.”
“Earlier reports said three people had been killed in the blast near Cleburne, 50 miles (80km) from Dallas.”
“All 13 other workers had been accounted for.”
“Enterprise Products Partners said it owned the 36-inch gas transportation pipeline, according to Reuters news agency.”
“Betterment Properties, which bought the site in 2004, declined to comment.”
“the cost of its response to the disaster in the Gulf had reached about $1.25bn (£860m).”
“$360m (£248m) for a project to build six sand berms”
“This number does not include $360m (£248m) for a project to build six sand berms to protect Louisiana's wetlands from the spreading oil, BP has said.”
“The device will go on sale on 24 June.”
“According to research firm Gartner, Apple's iPhone now has around 15% of the smartphone market, behind Blackberry and market‑leader Symbian. Google's Android operating system has around 10% followed by Microsoft's Window's mobile with arou…”
“Construction industry organisation, the Construction Products Association (CPA), says the school building programme is worth £10bn a year - and has helped to protect recession-hit businesses.”
“And he warned that if school projects were cut, the negative impact on construction firms would deepen until at least 2014, forecasting the closure of firms and the loss of jobs.”
“but had been working as a columnist for Hearst newspapers since 2000.”
“It means former Manweb customers in north Wales pay up to £75 per year more than people living in north west England.”
“"Earlier this year, we reduced gas prices by an average of 8%, the largest cut of any supplier this year," said a spokesman.”
“According to Consumer Focus' research customers in North and South Wales could be paying around £70 a year more than their neighbours in North West England and the Midlands.”
“A firm at the centre of a dispute over work to install Edinburgh's tram system has been given a three-week deadline to find a solution.”
“The £545m project, originally due to finish in August 2011, is now seven months behind schedule.”
“There needs to be a move to settle the project's contractual dispute within the month.”
“All 60 passengers were rescued, with eight people suffering minor injuries.”
“two huge rocks on the track”
“came to rest over a 15-metre embankment”
“The Glasgow to Oban service left the tracks near the Falls of Cruachan power station by Loch Awe shortly before 2100 BST on Sunday”
“The 60-year-old from Grangemouth, who has been a train driver since 1992 and has worked on the railways for 30 years”
“Customers who have spent at least £300 with them this year will be given the chance to buy shares if it goes ahead.”
“The company, which does most of its business in the south of the country, says it can deliver to 70% of households.”
“It recently signed a new 10-year agreement with Waitrose, a deal that was widely interpreted as clearing the way for a flotation.”
“Although we haven't made a decision on whether to proceed with the float, there has been lots of media speculation and we have had questions from customers. So we wanted to alert them now that it is our intention to offer current custome…”
“The business, which was set up in 2002, has never made a profit.”
“Although there have been rumours it would float since 2004.”
“BP has been coming under fire for spending a reported $50m on TV advertising to improve its image while the crisis was still going on.”
“not least through building 52 houses when housing building activity is low.”
“Up to 15,000 government jobs could be cut over four years”
“Londonderry is the most expensive place in Northern Ireland to buy petrol, it has been claimed.”
“the Consumer Council had also found that Derry was the second most expensive place for home heating oil.”
“in May 2009, it cost £48.78 to fill a car with a 50 litre tank with petrol”
“in May 2009, it cost £50.99 with diesel”
“At the beginning of May 2010, it is £12.00 more expensive to fill with petrol”
“£10.57 for diesel”
“petrol is currently almost 6p a litre more expensive than it is in the South”
“diesel is more than 15p per litre”
“"We used to have a blowout about once a year in the Gulf but it was shallower and the oil burned so you had very little pollution," he said.”
“Traders in a Dorset town hosting the 2012 Olympic sailing events claim a £9m scheme to ease road congestion ahead of the Games may put them out of business.”
“About 1,800 funeral services are held at the crematorium every year”
“The £86m expansion is expected to boost production at the Leven facility to about 30m cases a year and create about 400 jobs.”
“Building company Rok estimated 150 jobs would be created during construction.”
“Diageo said the project would offset the loss of 700 jobs at the Port Dundas distillery in Glasgow and the Johnnie Walker bottling plant in Kilmarnock.”
“The new expanded facility should be operational by the summer of next year, the company reported.”
“In September Diageo announced it was going ahead with the closure of the bottling plant in Kilmarnock despite strong protests and government intervention.”
“Residents of Dores, near Inverness, set up a trust to manage the £100,000 donated by RockNess since it started four years ago in a nearby field.”
“The authority said it expected a programme of summer repairs to be completed by September.”
“We expect this programme to be finished by September.”
“At the start of March we set the target of raising £50,000, and as of the last few days we've totalled up all the money we've received in terms of membership, seat sponsorship and also grants and we've reached the £50,000 total now.”
“When we announced last year that we were to sell Crosfield House, we said our preferred course of action would be to sell the home as a going concern.”
“Crosfield House is one of the largest employers in the town”
“I can confirm that the board of trustees has found a suitable buyer for Crosfield House in Rhayader. We have received an acceptable offer from an established Welsh care home provider”
“The agreement is for Crosfield House to be taken over as a going concern with no changes to staff.”
“the new park will operate from the 28-acre (11.3 hectare) Prince of Wales Dock.”
“At the launch, more than 60,000 households were invited to join the RecycleBank service.”
“Households are awarded points for the amount they recycle and these can be redeemed for discounts and offers at more than 100 local and national retail outlets, restaurants and leisure facilities, or donated to local schools.”
“Absence through sickness costs the UK economy £17bn, the CBI estimates”
“The average UK worker took 6.4 days off through sickness last year, the lowest number since 1987, a survey by the CBI suggests.”
“This compares with 6.7 days in 2007, the last year surveyed.”
“However, the total of 180 million sick days last year cost the UK economy £16.8bn, the business group estimated.”
“The CBI/Pfizer Absence and Workplace Health Survey had 241 respondents from the public and private sector, which together employ almost 1.3 million people.”
“Respondents to the survey estimated that about 15% of the total number of sick days were not actually due to genuine illness.”
“The cost to the economy of so-called 'sickies' was, therefore, £2.5bn, the CBI said.”
“In the public sector, employees took on average 8.3 days off last year, compared with their counterparts in the private sector who took just 5.8 days off.”
“Although the rate of employee absence has fallen in the public sector, it is still a lot higher than in the private sector, and this issue should be addressed, especially given that the public finances are strained, said Katja Hall, direct…”
“We estimate that £5.5bn could be saved by 2015-16 if the public sector matched the private sector's absence rate.”
“Airlines worldwide will make profits of $2.5bn (£1.7bn) in 2010, an industry body has said.”
“In March, the airline association had predicted global losses for airline businesses of $2.8bn.”
“We thought that it would take at least three years to recover the $81 billion (14.3%) drop in revenues in 2009," he added.”
“But the $62bn top‑line improvement this year puts us about 75% on the way to pre‑crisis levels.”
“The bulk of the revenue turnaround is predicted to come from Asia (excluding Japan), where Iata predicts 2010 GDP growth of 7%.”
“Meanwhile, the Iata report actually revised down its 2010 forecast profits for European carriers to a loss of $2.8bn, from $2.2bn.”
“Iata says the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud has also cost airlines some $1.8bn in lost revenues.”
“Burnley lost 7,500 private sector jobs between 1998 and 2008”
“About 7,500 private sector jobs disappeared in Burnley in a decade that saw 17,100 created in neighbouring Preston.”
“We've been increasing manufacturing production but of course as businesses become more efficient that doesn't necessarily turn into jobs.”
“We're seeing the signs now that that's working because we are seeing some of our advanced manufacturing companies starting to grow, and grow successful.”
“cleaners spending 13 hours less each week removing bins from under individual desks, adding up to an estimated annual saving of £4,968 across the department's six London offices”
“She said the 'bin the bin' report was 'drafted onsite by our facilities team at no extra cost to the department'.”
“Following proposals outlined in the 'Bin the Bin' report Defra opted to introduce binless offices and increase the use of recycling stations. After careful consideration we chose to purchase large executive recycle bins that are specifica…”
