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“The authority has been told by the Department for Education that the year-long £8.34m pilot, which was due to start in September, has been withdrawn.”
“France's growing budget deficit currently stands 7.5% of GDP”
“far above the 3% target set by the EU”
“Meanwhile the country's annual pension deficit is expected to total 32bn euros (£26.7bn; $39.5bn) this year”
“and could rise to as much as 114bn euros by 2050 without reform”
“Meanwhile, public sector workers retire on 75% of their final salary”
“The independent commission will take at least a year to review whether casino-style investment banks should be split from deposit-taking institutions on the High Street.”
“Mr Osborne said that the process of reforming the regulatory system would be completed by 2012.”
“The Department estimated that leakage is costing around £5m a year.”
“The inquiry was originally budgeted to cost £11m and report findings were expected by 2002.”
“The final bill was estimated at nearly 200 million pounds - making it the longest and most expensive inquiry in British legal history.”
“Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have been asked to find savings totalling £704m.”
“the coalition government says its first priority is reducing the UK's £156bn debt.”
“He told the BBC that without urgent action the council's debts would rise from £357m to £413m by the end of the financial year.”
“The councils' responses suggest that nearly £2.5bn worth of projects could be cancelled.”
“As the rhetoric has become increasingly bitter, the firm's share price has continued to tumble, with billions of dollars being wiped off its value.”
“The TV industry is hugely important to Wales in terms of its economic value, especially given the number of jobs associated with TV production in different parts of the country.”
“The full scale of this economic impact is probably unknown and is one of the reasons behind Prof Ian Hargreaves' call to map the creative industries sector in Wales in his recent report 'The Heart of Digital Wales'.”
“It holds the data of some 8,000 banks and operates in 200 countries.”
“The current jobs will be protected under the 10-year contract which is expected to save the authority £50m.”
“The financial savings made as a result of the £175m contract, will go towards maintaining and improving front-line police services.”
“has now grossed more than $1bn in revenue”
“over the $14bn mark”
“which has a value of $5bn”
“nearly three times that of its closest rival Electronic Arts”
“Work has begun on a £2m refurbishment of Nottingham's main library to include a new service centre for the public.”
“The council has declined to say how much it hoped to raise for commercial reasons.”
“The initiative, backed by £1.5m from the European Social Fund, will be run by the New Sandfields Aberavon charity.”
“Devon roads damaged by the harsh winter are to benefit from a £3.6m government repair grant.”
“The council said the money would be used to repair about 70 miles of the county's 8,000 miles of highways.”
“The funding is in addition to DCC's £7m programme of repairs which has filled about 70,000 potholes this year.”
“£8m museum”
“£4.6m lottery grant”
“£15m Sea City Museum”
“The new attraction comes after the council was awarded a £4.6m lottery grant towards it plans for a £15m Sea City Museum just one mile away from the Aeronautica site.”
“South West Water bills are almost £150 more than the national average”
“In 2009, water users in Devon and Cornwall were told they could expect a cut of about £6 in bills over the next five years, which would bring a typical bill down to £483 - still almost £150 more than the national average charge of £340.”
“According to the Consumer Council for Water, three out of 10 people in the South West are in 'water poverty', with bills costing more than 3% of their income.”
“A £1.6m research centre aimed at using resources from the sea to fight diseases such as cancer has opened.”
“Margaret Davidson, who chairs the council's social work committee, said the £30m needed to meet the commitment was not available.”
“In five years time or so when the financial situation is better and the bankers have paid their money back to the public purse, we can improve the facilities that are there.”
“She got a big tin and wrote on it 'Wildlife Africa Fund - 1p Minimum Charge' and as you went past it you had to put some money in.”
“Belfast company Andor Technology has announced operating profits of £3.2m for the six months to the end of March.”
“This is an increase of 85 per cent on the same period last year.”
“We expect sales for the full year to be worth more than £3m in the Chinese market.”
“The Asia-Pacific region currently accounts for around 25 per cent of our overall revenue, and we think that we could expand our sales significantly there over the next few years.”
“The Asia-Pacific region currently accounts for around 25 per cent of our overall revenue”
“We need the ships, the rigs, the equipments and everything else that is used for oil exploration to be made in Brazil.”
“It said the number of loans granted to home buyers fell by 9% in April to 40,000.”
“and said lending was still 15% higher than a year ago.”
“However the proportion of loans made to first-time buyers was just 35% of the total - the lowest figure since September 2007.”
“With only a gradual easing of mortgage rationing in the past few months, first time buyers are still having to put down an average 25% deposit when buying a new home.”
“A public inquiry has begun in Oxford into plans to build a £1bn reservoir.”
“It estimated that £7.5bn was lent by these businesses in 2008.”
“The watchdog has been scrutinising the pawnbroking, payday loan and home credit businesses since July last year.”
“This report shows that prices reflect market realities, and that complaint levels are low,”
“The Consumer Prices Index (CPI), the government's preferred measure, dropped to 3.4% from 3.7% in April, according to the Office for National Statistics.”
“The Retail Prices Index (RPI), a measure widely used in pay talks, fell to 5.1% in May from 5.4%, the ONS said.”
“The fall was bigger than the 3.5% analysts' forecast.”
“May's retreat in CPI will be of some relief to the Bank of England and boosts its case that inflation will head down significantly over the coming months.”
“He expects inflation to be under the 2% target by early-2011 barring any increase in VAT in next week's emergency budget.”
“It reinforces our belief that the Bank of England is more likely than not to keep interest rates down at 0.50% into 2011 as recovery remains bumpy and gradual with major fiscal tightening and the Eurozone debt crisis posing serious threats…”
“The fall was bigger than the 3.5% analysts' forecast, and could mean that April's 17-month high marks a peak.”
“The county council has set a target of raising an extra £600,000 a year through charging for community-based care services.”
“4,450 of its citizens hold secret accounts with UBS.”
“£30m redevelopment”
“£3m donation by local benefactor David Robinson”
“Japan's central bank has announced plans to provide up to 3 trillion yen (£22bn; $33bn) in low interest loans”
“Rates have remained at 0.1% since the end of 2008”
“The plans allow approved banks to borrow up to 150bn yen each for up to four years at an interest rate of 0.1%”
“The scheme is due to begin at the end of August”
“prices currently falling at an annual rate of 1.5%”
“Thirty four billion is the figure that dominates the front pages of both the Financial Times and the Guardian. For the FT, it is the amount in pounds George Osborne is expected to look for in additional cuts and tax increases in next week'…”
“Worth an estimated $53.5bn, Mr Slim - a Mexican telecom mogul - is the world's richest man, according to this year's Forbes magazine "rich list".”
“Mr Gates, founder of Microsoft, is said to be worth $53bn.”
“Bill Gates and Carlos Slim each gave about one-thousandth of their fortunes”
“Worth an estimated $53.5bn, Mr Slim - a Mexican telecom mogul - is the world's richest man, according to this year's Forbes magazine 'rich list'.”
“Research in Germany shows 80% support for lending money to the real economy, rather than speculating with it.”
“We assess the person, rather than the project, and create a credit file on them and put them into one of five different credit markets - A, B,C, Why and No”
“The most popular reason to borrow money is to buy a car, followed by home improvements and debt consolidation.”
“39% of its shares owned in the United States, against 40% in the United Kingdom.”
“G20 finance ministers had distanced themselves from bank taxes at a meeting earlier this month.”
“A number of countries have been calling for taxes on banks since governments spent billions of dollars bailing out banks across the world following the financial crisis that began in 2008.”
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have renewed calls for a global bank levy and a financial transaction tax. The two leaders said they would call for the measures in a joint letter to the president of the…”
“A bank tax would protect taxpayers from having to bail-out banks in the future. Proceeds from the taxes would go into a fund that could be accessed during any future financial crises.”
“The Catholic Church in Ireland has paid damages believed to be well in excess of 250,000 euros (about £207,000) to a female victim of paedophile priest Father Brendan Smyth.”
“Eurozone industrial production rose by 0.8% in April”
“the euro up 2 cents against the dollar, to $1.2252”
“Against the pound, it was slightly stronger at 83.108 pence”
“leading French shares up almost 2%, German shares up more than 1% and UK shares up 0.7%”
“leading US shares also rose by 1%, before slipping after Moody's, one of the three main international credit rating agencies, downgraded Greek government debt”
“They ended the day down 20 points, or 0.2%, at 10,191”
“The company had moved from a position where it had an excess of assets over liabilities of more than 200 million euros to a position where it had 200 million euros of liabilities over assets.”
“Ipsa is offering interest-free advances of £4,000 to be repaid later in the financial year for members struggling with cash flow problems.”
“Col Thiam said the management of the funds had been "opaque". "You know, when you're managing the funds of others, you have to keep and show accounts," "In the Guinean army, we grew used to embezzlement, we have accused our elders of finan…”
“The authority hopes selling to developers will raise £30m to revamp parks and open spaces, and enable about 10,000 new homes to be built.”
“Each laptop ordered by Uruguay cost $209.”
“there is a profound opportunity for Afghanistan with its gross domestic product of $12bn”
“But if fears over instability and corruption can be averted there is a profound opportunity for Afghanistan with its gross domestic product of $12bn, says Ms Sanok.”
“It is hoped the swim will raise £15,000 for Sussex Air Ambulance, the Surtees family's nominated charity Headway and the Matthew Elvidge Trust.”
