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“mother-of-seven”
“first opened its doors in the 1920s”
“yielding catches of £40-45,000 a year.”
“Probably five years' fishing gone in six weeks and there's nothing we can do about it because it's British water.”
“had already boarded five or six boats”
“up to eight boats have been working around the island since 20 April”
“He said he had lost 22 crab pots”
“I've been fishing for 35 years”
“three-mile limit”
“Helm Housing Association which owns the block, said it was told construction could begin in 2007, but planning approval has not yet been granted.”
“A social housing scheme funded mostly by the taxpayer was built without planning permission, and remains empty almost a year after their completion.”
“attendance had decreased by 20% since April”
“the medals fetched $6,443 (£4,400).”
“Royal Mail paid Adam Crozier £2.42m in his final year”
“Mr Crozier got a basic salary of £633,000”
“On top of this he had a bonus of £1.5m for meeting performance targets over three years”
“£206,000 in lieu of a pension”
“and £19,000 of other benefits”
“These directors are running a business with a turnover in excess of £9bn in a tough market place”
“Alan Cook, the former managing director of the Post Office, earned £1.25m”
“Royal Mail finance director Ian Duncan was paid almost £1.4m”
“Letters managing director Mark Higson received £1.73m”
“Mr Crozier left the Royal Mail before Easter to take up the top job at ITV”
“the figure was revealed in Royal Mail's annual report, which said Mr Crozier got a basic salary of £633,000”
“These directors are running a business with a turnover in excess of £9bn”
“The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health stopped its operations in April after the arrest of senior official George Gray, of Cricklewood, London.”
“Aberdeen-based Decom North Sea was set up last year to explore business opportunities in oil and gas decommissioning work.”
“By 2 June, BP had received 31,600 suggestions from members of the public on how to plug the well, or deal with the oil slicks already in the sea.”
“The company's helpline, which has 80 telephone operators, deals with interested citizens.”
“Of the 31,600 ideas, 8,000 have been submitted on paper.”
“There are 235 ideas currently in stage three and four, says BP.”
“Of those, just 10% are about how to plug the well.”
“£80m government loan”
“the job he has held since 2001.”
“A £200,000 extension to a Clackmannanshire community centre has been completed.”
“Building was initially delayed for two years after a dispute with developers Bett Scotland.”
“Clackmannanshire Council received the cash for the centre from Bett Scotland - formerly Gladedale - in 2006.”
“It was initially agreed improvements would be started by 2008.”
“Work on the extension was initially due to begin in 2008.”
“The company asked for its money back last year when building work had still not started, but changed its mind in August 2009 after angry local protests.”
“Mr Haraldsson, an aide to Iceland's tourism minister, said tourist bookings were 'better than ever' before the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in April, but then slumped by about 15%.”
“Ceredigion council moved into a new £15m building in the town last September, which meant many of its old offices were no longer required.”
“Canolfan Rheidol took nearly 18 months to build, and the council said the project was completed on time and on budget.”
“Workers were transferred to the new base of Canolfan Rheidol, next door to a Welsh Assembly Government office. [...] The departments of finance, social services, education and community services, environmental services and housing, and hig…”
“it was 'really disappointing' the assembly government was pressing ahead with the charge and ignoring the 'excellent' results in reducing bag use demonstrated by Welsh customers and retailers. [...] By introducing a bag charge, Wales becom…”
“'The fact that retailers and consumers have already worked together in Wales to make real progress on reducing the number of single use carrier bags shows that a voluntary approach works.' He added that the carrier bag charge was likely to…”
“The Commerce and Employment Department has advertised a five-year licence for two acres of sea and foreshore in Rocquaine Bay, north of Fort Grey.”
“The deadline for applications to the department is 30 June.”
“The five-year licence is extendable and is due to run from mid-July.”
“He also said that he had no intention of taking the company public and that he did not spend time focusing on what his competitors were doing.”
“It is more likely that the biggest competitor for us is someone we haven't heard of.”
“In 2009 Alderney Airport made a loss of £750,000”
“Last year Alderney Airport, which is run by Guernsey's Public Services Department, made a loss of £750,000.”
“BP owns 50% of TNK-BP, while the other 50% belongs to a consortium of Russian billionaires.”
“The Kovykta field is estimated to contain more than 2 trillion cubic metres of natural gas.”
“Under the agreement reached in 1997, 9bn cubic metres of gas should have been produced in Kovykta annually since 2006, but the actual figure is about 34m cubic metres.”
“RUSIA Petroleum, in which it owns a 62.9% stake, could not repay its loans to the TNK-BP Group.”
“It said RUSIA Petroleum, in which it owns a 62.9% stake, could not repay its loans to the TNK-BP Group.”
“In 2007, TNK-BP agreed to sell the licence to Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, but the talks stalled.”
“A soup and ready meals factory has opened in Grimsby, creating 200 jobs.”
“Chilled food manufacturer Daniels Group spent £8m upgrading an empty factory at the town's Europarc business centre.”
“The factory is on a site previously run by Mariner Foods, which closed in May 2008 with the loss of more than 500 jobs.”
“So far he has sent five letters, one a week, by recorded delivery and sent an e-mail every day.”
“US data on Wednesday showed pending home sales hit a six-month high in April”
“May's car sales were up 18% from a year ago”
“"Global wind is a tremendous source of energy - carrying nearly 870 terrawatts in global tropospheric winds," says Mr Bevirt of Joby Energy, which is developing the wind turbine technology. "In comparison, the global demand is 17 terawatts…”
“His airborne wind turbines will take off and fly to around 2000 feet (600m), where they will float, generating power that can be transferred to the ground via a tether.”
“"Operating at five times the height of a conventional turbine increases both wind speed and consistency resulting in more power, more often," said Mr Bevirt.”
“The technology can potentially navigate to altitudes of 35,000 feet (10,600m), but the company has had to restrict their flying altitudes to 2000 feet or less due to concerns expressed by the US Federal Aviation Administration.”
“After testing more than 20 different prototypes, the company has settled on a 30kW system, which it is using to evaluate the efficiency of the design.”
“"Going higher increases the velocity of wind that is available," says Professor William Moomaw, director at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. "The higher speeds at the greate…”
“Following the power cut EDF Energy offered a goodwill payment of £50 to properties left without electricity for more than 24 hours.”
“The route started in March 2008”
“But the numbers dropped by 30% in April, despite a fare reduction.”
“Flights will stop from Sunday 4 July.”
“It said it was shelving investment worth 586m Australian dollars ($500m; £338m) in two mines in Queensland.”
“The investment is part of a planned A$6.6bn development in both of the projects, which Xstrata said would have created 3,250 new jobs.”
“Fortescue Metals threatened to abandon $15bn (£10.2bn) of new projects unless the plans for the mining tax were watered down or axed.”
“investment projects worth a total of A$22bn, which Xstrata says have the potential to create 14,725 jobs.”
“suspending - with immediate effect - investment in its Wandoan thermal coal project and in a development to extend the life of the Ernest Henry copper mine.”
“It is hoped the project, expected to cost $300m (£204m), will draw 750,000 visitors a year to Gary, Indiana.”
“Gary's mayor, Rudy Clay, said the project would generate up to $150m (£102m) for the town every year.”
“It was announced on Wednesday that the town will donate 300 acres of land to the project, which is expected to kickstart progress towards the facility.”
“He joked that though he was being paid £115 for the spot”
“his tax status, agent and travel meant it would cost him £37”
“"I'm earning a hundred quid for this," he told the 70-strong crowd, though claimed the associated costs meant it was actually costing him £37 to perform.”
“TSSA and another rail union, the RMT, are in dispute with Network Rail over plans to cut 1,500 maintenance and signallers' jobs.”
“The fall in profits is due to a revaluation of its assets as well as a drop in revenue from train companies. Part of it reflects higher investment in the network.”
“The new Clydesdale Bank £20 note features an image of New Lanark”
“Named Owenstown after the New Lanark social pioneer, it would be home to 20,000 people and could create up to 8,000 jobs.”
“Last summer the Hometown Foundation, a charitable trust, announced proposals to create a new "eco-friendly" town based on co-operative principles in South Lanarkshire. Named Owenstown after the New Lanark social pioneer, it would be home t…”
“£730m worth of help for business which is now under review.”
“The cost of implementing all new regulation in the pipeline would be £5bn in this financial year and £19bn after that.”
“£20m.”
“£80m loan to Sheffield Forgemasters to manufacture nuclear industry technology”
“£270m of loan guarantees to General Motors Europe to secure the future of Vauxhall plants in the UK”
“£360m loan guarantee to Ford for research and development of green car engines”
“£20.7m grant to Nissan for production of a new electric car model”
“We have already in the first few days identified several billion pounds of costs involved in those regulations, Business Minister Mark Prisk told MPs.”
“The business department claims that the cost of implementing all new regulation in the pipeline would be £5bn in this financial year and £19bn after that.”
