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“Adam Smith £20 note since March 2007.”
“On average, any £20 note is expected to have a lifespan of five years.”
“The Bank of England has the authority to withdraw notes from circulation under the Currency and Banknotes Act 1954.”
“Until 1990, withdrawn notes were incinerated, but now they are shredded before going into compost or taken to an industrial incinerator.”
“A £1 note from 1914 - which would be exchanged for £1 at the Bank of England - recently sold at auction for £36,000.”
“Other English notes - always seen as good value, owing to a lack of hyper-inflation - can regularly fetch more than £20,000 at auction as long as they are unusual.”
“It has taken off in the last 30 years or so," he says.”
“It goes through a three stage printing process before being distributed.”
“Figures released on Monday showed that the Indian economy grew at an annual rate of 8.6% in the three months to March.”
“Spain exited recession in the first quarter of 2010, as its economy grew 0.1%, but it is struggling with an unemployment rate of 20%.”
“The Spanish government is also continuing with austerity measures to reduce its significant public deficit from 11.2% to 3% of its economy by 2013.”
“Spain exited recession in the first quarter of 2010, as its economy grew 0.1%”
“it is struggling with an unemployment rate of 20%.”
“This is likely to further put pressure on Spanish consumer spending.”
“BP's shares fell sharply on Tuesday after the failure of its previous efforts to "top kill" the leak by pumping mud into the well. At one stage the share price hit its lowest level for 15 months...”
“BP has spent more than $940m (£645m) so far in trying to contain the disaster.”
“Nigeria's central bank is extending a 500bn naira ($3.3bn; £2.3bn) bail-out to its troubled airlines.”
“The fund, first announced in March, was originally meant to stimulate credit to the power and manufacturing sectors.”
“In August 2009, the Central Bank of Nigeria also injected 400bn naira to rescue five banks.”
“These airlines can now partake from the fund and those that are indebted to banks can refinance their loans and amortise them over a period of ten to 15 years,”
“The £6bn ($10bn) collider is being used to smash together beams of proton particles to shed light on the nature of Universe.”
“Kenya's services sector, which contributes about 63% percent of gross domestic product, is dominated by tourism.”
“Furthermore, almost 75% of working Kenyans earn their living from the land.”
“The agricultural sector continues to dominate Kenya's economy despite only 15% percent of the country's total land area being sufficiently fertile for farming.”
“Annual inflation in April stood at 9.59% after reaching 9.9% in March”
“India's economy grew at an annual rate of 8.6% in the three months to March”
“That marked an increase on the 6.5% growth seen in the previous quarter.”
“The economy for the year ending March 2010 grew by 7.4%, ahead of the RBI's January forecast of 7.2%.”
“He added that he expected the economy to grow by 8.5% in the financial year to March 2011.”
“The £1m pot is designed to help create new businesses and premises.”
“Dundee railway station received the largest award of £59,500, which will go towards setting up a new arts headquarters.”
“Kilmarnock station has been awarded £40,000 to develop a charity shop, while Cupar station was given £37,000 for a heritage centre.”
“Dumbarton Central station received £24,000 towards the the cost of a new cafe and Kinghorn station is to receive £7,500 for an artists' studio.”
“Mowing a graveyard can cost £700 to £1,000, the programme found”
“The annual Civil List has been set at £7.9m for 20 years.”
“the Queen's expenditure is running at about £7m more than the annual allowance.”
“run out in 2012”
“last increase was agreed in 1990”
“frozen in 2000, to compensate for 10 years of over-generous payments”
“5% pay cut”
“The paper also says the Queen's expenditure is running at about £7m more than the annual allowance.”
“The shortfall is currently being covered by an emergency reserve, but this is due to run out in 2012 - the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year.”
“The Civil List sum, which pays for the running of the Royal household, is negotiated every decade and the last increase was agreed in 1990.”
“The £7.9m figure that is granted by the government was frozen in 2000, to compensate for 10 years of over-generous payments.”
“Mr Davidson said that cabinet ministers had taken a 5% pay cut”
“It says about a fifth of the working population is now using at least half its income to service debt.”
“She has since secured more than £25,000 funding from the Pub is the Hub scheme and Denbighshire council.”
“IBM does not say exactly how much cash is generated by selling and servicing mainframes, but the division of the company that makes them, amongst other things, was worth more than $5.2bn (£3.6bn) in the final quarter of 2009 suggesting tha…”
“The town has a population of more than one million and it contributes 4.9% to the national Gross Domestic Product.”
“Culture and Sport Glasgow, a charitable company which runs sport and leisure services in the city, is attempting to make cuts of £3.4m in the current financial year.”
“"Our sales are worth around $13bn (£9bn) - and about 70% of them are exported."”
“has raised $537m in India”
“was more than twice oversubscribed”
“will issue 240 million IDRs at a price of 104 rupees (£1.55; $2.24) each”
“by 11 June”
“Tax rules say that people with two homes are not liable for CGT if they sell the main home within three years.”
“On selling the flat in 2007, he said he 'was advised that CGT was not payable because of the operation of final period relief, which exempts homes from CGT for 36 months after they stop being the main home'”
“HMRC rules state that the final three years always qualify for relief from CGT - even if the person was not living at the property - as long as it has been their only or main home at some point during the time they owned it.”
“He bought the first London flat in 1999 with his wife, then sold it in 2007”
“The latest public sector rich list published by the TaxPayers' Alliance in December revealed at least 805 people earning packages of £150,000 or more a year.”
“They worked across 358 government departments, quangos, public corporations, public bodies and nationalised industries - earning on average £226,000 per annum.”
“Capital gains tax is now 18%”
“more than double to 40% or 50%”
“if the tax was raised to 40% or 50%”
“a group of 12 business and economy experts”
“Funding of £10m has been secured to start work on the restoration.”
“Another £2m has yet to be found to complete the project.”
“The UK insurer announced plans to buy AIA for £24.6bn ($35.5bn) earlier this year, but faced a backlash from investors who think it is paying too much.”
“The Pru is reported to be trying to reduce the price it must pay for AIA to less than $30bn.”
“It is hoping to axe payment of £3.45bn in Prudential shares that were to make up part of the takeover price, The Mail on Sunday said.”
“Earlier this month, Prudential announced plans to raise £14.5bn from shareholders to fund the acquisition of AIA - the UK's biggest rights issue to date.”
“The Stormont Executive will have to make cuts of about £1bn over the next five years.”
“In a letter to Northern Ireland's 26 councils, Mr Poots said he was asking them to fund the £118m cost of amalgamating them into 11 larger areas.”
“The cost of merging the councils is believed to be around £118m, with another £20m for the expense of converging rates bills.”
“The Review of Public Administration, which also includes reforms to the health and education sectors, was meant to save the Executive more than £400m over the next 25 years.”
“The Greek government has promised to repay 5.6bn euros that it owes to medical companies for hospital equipment and drugs.”
“A spokesman for Novo Nordisk, which is owed 24.4m euros by Greece, said that the debt issue was unrelated to the decision not to lower prices.”
“an industry which generates £4bn a year for the economy”
“the chancellor is abandoning a reduction in the threshold for the tax on savings and investments from £10,000 to £2,500.”
“Mr Osborne is also, says the paper, privately ruling out a 50% top rate.”
“Mr Laws is a former city banker who only entered politics in 2001, but he rapidly rose to prominence and it was him who listed £6.2bn of cuts under the coalition's initial attack on 'wasteful spending'.”
“it was him who listed £6.2bn of cuts under the coalition's initial attack on 'wasteful spending'.”
“BA says the strike has cost it about £85m - an average of £6m for each of the 15 strike days so far.”
“It also made £56,000 in hardship payments to those in financial need.”
“It is no coincidence that as financial belts are tightened we awarded more than £56,000 in grants to people from this sector who were in desperate financial need.”
“he would pay back the £40,000 he claimed.”
“Latvia has been hit badly by recession. Its economy shrank by 18% in 2009 and it has Europe's highest unemployment.”
“the Daily Telegraph said totalled £40,000.”
“he claimed up to £950 a month for eight years to rent a room in two properties owned by his partner, James Lundie.”
“The cash - an equivalent of £22,600 - will only be returned if the woman can provide proof to a court that the money came from a legitimate source.”
“The first two years have seen over $400m (£274m) worth of produce traded”
“Mr Lundie had gained more than £40,000 in rent”
“ordering a 25% price cut in all medicines.”
“Novo Nordisk claims it is owed $36m (£24.9m) dollars by the Greek state.”
“academy status brings a cash uplift of 10% or more”
“For a large secondary school that could be £400,000 a year”
“Fitch cut Spain's rating from the maximum AAA to AA+.”
“But the market's collapse has now left lenders with debts worth 445bn euros ($550bn; £380bn), according to Goldman Sachs.”
“Investor concerns that Spain could face a Greek-style debt crisis have prompted the government to approve a tough and unpopular 15bn-euro ($18.4bn; £13bn) austerity package to shore up its public finances.”
“The government wants to cut its public deficit to 3% of GDP by 2013 from 11.2% last year.”
