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“From our small company they've withheld around about £730,000.”
“Three men have been arrested in connection with an alleged £300,000 VAT fraud linked to the chainsaw industry.”
“Pre-tax profits for the year to March rose to £20.4m from £14.1m a year ago.”
“International sales almost doubled to £63m, while UK sales rose 20% to £160m, the company said.”
“Details of £1.1bn cuts in funding for English councils have been announced - with the communities secretary pledging to minimise the impact on services.”
“no council would see central funding drop by more than 2%”
“cut £6.2bn in expenditure this year”
“savings of its own of £780m by cutting running costs and programme budgets”
“cut by £1.166bn, comprising of £805m in revenue grant cuts and £360m in lower capital spending”
“annual £29bn general grant”
“Budgets for housing programmes - including affordable homes - are to fall by £150m”
“spending on regional development agencies by £186m”
“Birmingham (£12.6m), Liverpool (£9m), Kent (£8.7m) Essex (£7.5m) and Durham (£6.3m)”
“Currently, he said, O2 was spending around £1m a day to upgrade its network to cope with the 'exponential demand' for data on smartphones.”
“O2's cheapest tariff will cost £25 per month for two years and will allow a user to download 500MB per month. After that, it will cost £5 for every additional 500 megabytes of data consumed.”
“39% of BP's shares are held by US institutions and individuals, according to figures on the oil giant's website.”
“The value of the Chinese yuan has been pegged to the dollar since 2008”
“Some analysts argue the yuan is undervalued by as much as 40%.”
“BP shares in the UK have fallen to their lowest level since 1997 amid fears of huge US penalties.”
“Shares in the British oil giant have nearly halved over the last couple of months.”
“The NHS has been told to find up to £20bn of savings by 2014 even though the health service is due to see rises in its budget in the coming years.”
“They are highly experienced, able, well-trained and paid more than £40,000 a year.”
“Its stock market value has fallen from about £125bn to about £70bn”
“BP paid £930m in UK tax on its profits in 2009, which was well down on the £1.7bn it had paid in each of the previous three years.”
“The employees paid £490m in income tax and National Insurance on their earnings”
“while BP paid £110m in employer's National Insurance contributions.”
“If you add together the corporation tax and production tax paid by BP, together with the National Insurance and income tax paid by its employees and the VAT and fuel excise duty paid by its customers, you get £5.8bn, which is about enough …”
“He adds that those US shareholders might not be happy that every time the US president lays into BP, they find themselves a bit poorer.”
“BP is a huge company, but its shares have almost halved in value since the explosion that set off the spill in the Gulf of Mexico on 20 April.”
“UK pension funds do indeed have big holdings of BP shares and the company says that £1 of every £7 paid in dividends to pension funds by FTSE 100 companies last year came from BP.”
“the tribunal in Kisangani has lowered the damages the convicted men and the Norwegian state have been ordered to pay”
“We'd got support from schools who had pledged nearly £1m towards this, and we'd got support from the health authority because some of the health targets in Nottingham about childhood obesity would be addressed by this.”
“Work started on the Centre for Alternative Technology's (CAT) £8m project for the Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (WISE) in 2005.”
“In April, the eco-centre, near Machynlleth, appealed for £530,000 to help finish its building.”
“The lecture theatre is named after one of CAT's benefactors, Graham Sheppard, who donated £650,000 towards the WISE project.”
“The European Central Bank (ECB) has held eurozone interest rates at a record low of 1% for the 10th month running, as expected.”
“The ECB forecasts eurozone inflation of 1.4%-1.6% for 2010, a slight upward revision from its March forecast.”
“It also predicts growth of 0.7%-1.3% this year, also revised up.”
“The ECB would continue to provide a three-month lending facility for banks until September, Mr Trichet said.”
“However, Mr Trichet did welcome a new 750bn-euro 'stability facility' that is being set up by eurozone governments.”
“Earlier on Thursday, the Bank of England announced that it had kept UK interest rates on hold at 0.5%.”
“UK interest rates have been kept on hold at a record low of 0.5% for the 15th month in a row.”
“Interest rates have now been at 0.5% since March 2009.”
“a Reuters poll of 61 economists suggested the central bank would not raise rates until next year.”
“Inflation in April hit its highest rate in 17 months.”
“On the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure, inflation hit 3.7% - well above the Bank's target of 2% and the highest rate since November 2008.”
“The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) called for the Bank of England to raise the cost of borrowing to 3.5% by the end of 2011.”
“Shares in Home Retail Group were down 3.9% at 228.7p by mid-morning following the announcement.”
“Welsh Water invested a record £1m a day last year, according to latest figures.”
“The not-for-profit company owned by Glas Cymru also paid a 'dividend' of £22 per customer.”
“Welsh Water's annual results show that a £361m capital programme was successfully completed, bringing investment over the past five years to more than £1.5bn - equivalent to more than £1,000 for every household.”
“When Glas Cymru acquired Welsh Water in 2001, Welsh Water had the highest water bill in the industry and the second highest sewerage bill.”
“We are concerned about the number of pollution incidents from our assets and are committed to reducing them as part of our £1.2bn investment plan over the next five years.”
“Following the result of Ofwat's Price Review in November 2009, the business plans to reduce its day-to-day running costs by 20% while continuing to make improvements.”
“Customers are also expected to benefit from a reduction of £30 a year in the average household bill by 2015.”
“The US authorities have provided a total of $182bn (£125bn) to save the insurance giant since it nearly went bust in September 2008.”
“The Congressional Budget Office estimates that taxpayers will lose $36bn on the rescue.”
“It has been estimated that taxpayers will lose about $36bn on the deal”
“Goldman Sachs was by far the biggest such beneficiary.”
“The panel also described as 'optimistic' the valuations of AIG provided by the US Treasury Department and the insurer's management.”
“since it nearly went bust in September 2008.”
“Companies House forms part of the department of Business, Innovation and Skills, which has to find savings of £836m this financial year.”
“BAA - which is majority-owned by Spanish firm Ferrovial - sold Gatwick for £1.5bn last year.”
“Committee chairmen receive extra pay on top of their MP's salaries for doing the job. In 2010-11, they will receive an additional £14,582.”
“He was accused by prosecutors of sheltering an al-Qaeda operative at his flat in London, letting the man use his mobile phone, lending him £200 ($290), and helping him store clothing collected for al-Qaeda members.”
“£75,000 in damages”
“The US has given about $7bn (£4.7bn) since 2000 in military and other aid for Colombia.”
“Australia's gambling industry generates about A$18bn ($15bn:£10bn) annually.”
“vast amounts of money - more than US$8bn - are poured every year into the 'pokies'.”
“Funding for the project came from regional development agency One North East, Arts Council England and the Northern Rock Foundation, among others.”
“The resolution toughens rules on financial transactions with Iranian banks”
“It said the group had 'major concerns' about the twice-a-day air link between Cardiff and Anglesey which was backed by up to £2.4m from the assembly government over three years.”
“For the first time ever we now spend more on sustainable forms of transport than we do on more traditional areas like roads.”
“The firm's shares closed down 6.6% in London, having earlier plunged 12%.”
“The recent price moves mean the oil giant's share price has almost halved since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on 20 April.”
“BP's shares recovered some of the losses during London trading hours to end 6.6% lower at 365.5 pence.”
“It also said that BP pays £1 in every £7 of dividends that pension funds receive from FTSE 100 companies.”
“This compares with a total of £55bn that has been wiped off BP's value since the spill began.”
“It also said that the total actual cost to date was some $1.43bn (£1bn).”
“At the time, it was widely quoted in the media that the company had debts of £170m.”
“However, Michael Taggart admits that figure significantly underestimates the company's debts, which he puts at about £300m - including a lot of money owed to sub-contractors and small businesses.”
“For much of the past ten years, the business grew relentlessly to the point where the Taggarts were said to be personally worth £115m.”
“At one stage its estimated value was £500m but the fall in prices meant that by 2008, it was worth significantly less than Taggart Holdings had paid for it.”
“The first signs of trouble were in June 2007 when Ulster Bank refused to pay cheques made out by the company worth approximately £200,000.”
“He said: "The banks brought the group down for £21m - we had demonstrated that given another 12 months we could have paid off the majority of that.”
“The first signs of trouble were in June 2007 when Ulster Bank refused to pay cheques made out by the company worth approximately £200,000. This came after the bank said a Taggart company had breached the terms of a banking covenant.”
“He said: "The banks brought the group down for £21m - we had demonstrated that given another 12 months we could have paid off the majority of that. That was also demonstrated by independent people - experts outside of our group."”
“contributes around £17bn to our economy every year”
“The British energy firm's shares fell 3.4% on Wednesday over worries that the company will have to suspend its dividend payments because of the disaster.”
“the coalition needed to make £700m savings.”
“Current fees in England are £3,225 a year”
“graduates pay the money back only when they earn a salary of £15,000 or more.”
“Students will graduate owing an average of £23,500”
“One pensioner was charged £66 for going overdrawn by 60p.”
“After all it's only a year since the public bailed out the banks and saved them from disaster.”
“The Scottish government points to research by York University which said alcohol misuse in Scotland was costing taxpayers between £2.4bn and £4.6bn a year.”
“Unemployment is currently 2.51m, according to the latest official figures.”
“The CIPD had earlier suggested that the jobless total would reach 2.65 million this year.”
“But chief economic adviser John Philpott said he had now revised up his forecast, saying unemployment would climb to 2.95m in the second half of 2012, and remain close to that level until 2015.”
“About 500,000 public sector jobs would go in that period, Mr Philpott predicted.”
