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“"Regulation has long been stifling business growth, so these plans to put an end to the excessive legislation that choke small businesses is welcome news," said FSB policy chairman Mike Cherry.”
“All projects are being reviewed, Mr Cable told Phil Wilson MP, whose constituency includes the Nissan plant which is set to receive £20m. We have to review affordability and value for money in every case.”
“£20.7m grant to Nissan for production of a new electric car model.”
“The current five-day strike by British Airways cabin crew has entered its final day”
“With another five-day walkout due to start on Saturday”
“Unite claims it is costing BA £7m each day”
“BA counters that a growing number of strikers are returning to work, and during the next walkout it plans to fly more than three-quarters of customers who booked flights.”
“These departures will be part of the 80% of long-haul flights it aims to operate from Heathrow next week, up from 70% this week.”
“It also expects to run 60% of short-haul services from the airport, up from 55% this week.”
“Meanwhile, overall new car sales in the US were 19% higher in May than the same month last year.”
“Across the car industry, US sales at Ford were up 22% last month, while General Motors' added 17%.”
“However, Toyota's sales only rose 7% as it ended special offers introduced in March to woo customers who may have otherwise been put off by its mass car safety recalls.”
“"For each game each player has two shirts per game," he said. "There are three qualifying games and then if they progress they need to have shirts. "As we don't know if they're going to be playing in white or red we've done two sets of whi…”
“Three generations of the Roberts family are working on almost 300 shirts to be shipped out to South Africa by Friday.”
“The cost of the works has been estimated to be about £30,000”
“The pay details were revealed in the Bank's annual report, published on Wednesday.”
“There are figures which show that about 12,000 shops across the UK closed last year”
“It's reckoned that supermarkets take £7 out of every £10 spent in the High Street”
“The Helping the High Street roadshow will then visit Holywell, Shotton and Mold over the next fortnight”
“The first council-run session will be held in Buckley later”
“Mr Mynbayev said China held a 50-100% stake in 15 companies working in Kazakhstan's energy sector.”
“According to the Kazakh energy ministry, out of 80m tonnes of crude oil which Kazakhstan is expected to produce in 2010, 25.7m will go to China.”
“China's state energy company, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), bought the Kazakh oil producer MangistauMunaiGaz for $2.6bn in a joint deal with the Kazakh state energy company KazMunaiGaz.”
“China Investment Corp (CIC) purchased 11% of the KazMunaiGaz Exploration and Production company for $939m.”
“The Kazakh-China oil pipeline grew an additional 762km (472 miles) from Kazakhstan's Caspian Sea oilfields, reaching China's Xinjiang province.”
“It can transport up to 10m tonnes of crude oil per year, and there are plans to double that capacity.”
“At a press conference in February Kairgeldi Kabyldin, the head of the country's main oil and gas company KazMunaiGaz, said that just 2% of workers in Kazakh oil companies were Chinese.”
“China held a 50-100% stake in 15 companies working in Kazakhstan's energy sector.”
“out of 80m tonnes of crude oil which Kazakhstan is expected to produce in 2010, 25.7m will go to China.”
“China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), bought the Kazakh oil producer MangistauMunaiGaz for $2.6bn in a joint deal with the Kazakh state energy company KazMunaiGaz.”
“the musical's 25th anniversary”
“The 300-strong cast will also feature members of the original line-up when they take to the stage on 3 October.”
“opened in October 1985 at London's Barbican.”
“It became the world's longest running musical in 2006 - two years after moving to the Queen's Theatre from the Palace Theatre, where it had been performed since December 1985.”
“Earlier this year it celebrated its 10,000th performance, and has been seen by 56 million people worldwide.”
“The IPW has 190 members - 20% of independent UK Will writing firms.”
“Three one-day strikes have been confirmed for bus services in the Scottish Borders.”
“First Bus drivers will take industrial action on 7, 18 and 21 June in a dispute over pay.”
“An overtime ban is also planned on 8 June which may disrupt some routes across the region.”
“The corporate governance 'green paper' is only intended to stimulate discussion, and the Commission does not expect to propose any specific new legislation on until 2011”
“The actor has run Stirling's ghost walk for 20 years”
“He was working for SuffDoc, part of the out-of-hours GP service provider Take Care Now, for £45 an hour.”
“He said only one container of similar trainers had been delivered to this country and 12 pairs were sent to each factory shop at Porthmadog, Barmouth and Pwllheli, half of which had been sold.”
“a 55% increase in revenue and a doubling of its customer base.”
“More than 300 new orders were won during the year, with over half of these coming from new customers.”
“which is forecast overall to reach £68bn by 2016.”
“Iomart was founded in 1998”
“The company employs 150 people at various sites throughout the UK.”
“a doubling of its customer base.”
“More than 300 new orders were won during the year”
“with over half of these coming from new customers.”
“Royal Bank of Scotland has said it is to cut another 500 jobs as part of its three-year restructuring plan.”
“RBS has cut more than 20,000 jobs since its bail-out”
“The job losses come just three weeks after the bank said it would cut 2,600 people from its payroll in insurance and retail banking.”
“RBS said the new cuts would be made over three years”
“The wealth management division employs about 3,500 staff in the UK.”
“These latest cuts mean RBS has announced 23,100 job losses across its business worldwide since the bail-out.”
“Baku-based Turkish businessman Yavuz Keles, director of Tusiab - a construction company based in Baku with $3bn (£2.1bn) of assets”
“nine waterfront mansions in Dubai, worth a total of $44m, were purchased in the name of President Aliyev's 11-year-old son.”
“It said the £270m centre would deliver up to 140 million litres of water to 400,000 homes in a drought.”
“so we can ensure our 8.5 million customers have enough water in future in the event of a drought.”
“In terms of volume, Turkey ranks number eight for Israeli trade after the two sides signed a free trade agreement in 2000.”
“The total trade volume between the two countries in 2009 was $2.5bn, according to Turkey's state statistics institute.”
“Turkey awarded a contract in 2005, ordering 10 drones from Israeli manufacturers Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Elbit.”
“In January, Turkish officials said Israel would send four Heron unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Turkey in March.”
“Meanwhile, the Free Gaza Movement is sending two more boats to Gaza and they are expected to arrive in region by Thursday.”
“From Kazakhstan, 200,000 barrels of oil are now being pumped every day across the border into the western Chinese province of Xinjiang, and there are plans to double this pipeline's capacity.”
“From Turkmenistan, a pipeline carrying gas to China via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was opened last December by the Chinese President Hu Jintao. It could satisfy around half of China's current demand by the time it reaches full capacity in 2…”
“Even now it is only taking a third of what it was expected to buy, angering the Turkmen government and pushing it further into the arms of the Chinese.”
“The game changed because of Nabucco. Up to 2006, Russia could buy cheap gas from Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan - $50 for 1,000 cubic metres and then sell it to Europe for $250.”
“But from the start of 2008, Russia had to agree to pay European prices - $300 per 1,000 cubic metres.”
“Moscow has had agreements with Beijing to build a gas pipeline into China since 2002, but the two sides have been haggling ever since over the price of the gas supplies.”
“But some analysts question whether Russia will have sufficient reserves to supply the gas pipeline, given the expected decline in its production over the next 20 years and the lack of investment in new fields since the collapse of the Sovi…”
“Football fans uploading 10 photos at a game could be charged up to £80.”
“The watchdog said that the cost of using mobile internet - increasingly popular as people visit social networking sites on smartphones - can be up to £8 for every megabyte downloaded.”
“Charges to make calls ranged from 80p to £1.50 a minute, and texts cost from 25p to 50p, Consumer Focus said.”
“Holidaymakers travelling in the EU have a maximum tariff of 43 cents (37p) a minute when making a call, 19 cents (16p) a minute when receiving a call, 11 cents (9p) a minute to send a text, and, from July, 50 euros (£42.50) for data roamin…”
“Users receive a warning when they are approaching 80% of their limit, and are cut off once the limit is reached.”
“However, when the iron bridge was constructed in 1920 it was leased to the owner of the nearby Bleachgreen works for 85 years.”
“£2.5bn regeneration of Ashford.”
“Ashford's Future, the agency which organised the event, wants to double the town's size by 2031.”
“More than 12,000 households were sent information during the consultation”
“2,100 people attended 20 public exhibitions”
“Presentations were given to two county councils, five district councils, 61 parish councils and more than 50 ward councillors”
“Depending upon the final route, the overhead line would be up to 18 miles (30km) long”
“If consent is granted construction would begin in 2012 and end in 2016”
“nine out of ten pubs in Nottingham passed an under age purchase test.”
“Four volunteers aged under 16, with a plain clothes officer, visited the pubs in Hucknall to try to buy an alcohol drink.”
“The service is being offered free of charge by Plymouth City Centre Company as part of a five-year business plan.”
“Firstly it will help reduce business costs by diverting paper and card away from the commercial waste collection they pay for, making collection of residual waste cheaper.”
“the economy is now expected to grow by 1% by the end of the year.”
“downward revision of 0.3% from its report in March.”
“not reaching pre-recession levels until the second half of 2012.”
“forecasts for 2011 show the economy is expected to grow by 1.9%.”
“within the next four or five years.”
“about 100 acres of brown field site available for business development.”
“Northern Rock's banking operation in Guernsey is to close on 2 September, the bank has announced.”
“Some 6,000 customers have received letters giving them three months' notice to close their accounts.”
“The bank said that the Guernsey operation no longer met its 'long-term commercial objectives' following a review of offshore operations.”
“"The board considers the closure of our Guernsey operation to be a necessary step as we continue to prepare the company for a return to private ownership and to deliver value to the taxpayer," said Gary Hoffman, the Rock's chief executive.”
