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“C&C has agreed a three-year shirt sponsorship deal with Rangers and Celtic, and it is investing £7m in new information technology to back up its distribution.”
“Cumbria Police force is facing a £2.8m deficit”
“The force is facing a cash shortfall of almost £3m by 2013, according to a report to be put before Cumbria Police Authority on Tuesday.”
“The force is facing a cash shortfall of almost £3m by 2013, according to a report to be put before Cumbra Police Authority on Tuesday.”
“£80m loan”
“save £2bn”
“The New Forest National Park has said it can cope with a £200,000 (5%) reduction in its government grant.”
“The park authority said it has been preparing for a cut in the £4.4m grant from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).”
“The 5% cut in grants applies to all English parks as part of the government's planned £6bn savings.”
“Oxfam is set for a £100,000 windfall if tennis star Roger Federer wins this year's Wimbledon thanks to a bet from a late supporter.”
“One of the other gambles saw £1,520 staked at the same odds of 66/1 for the Swiss star to win seven Wimbledons before the year 2020. If the world number two claims the title over the next two weeks he will win Oxfam £101,840.”
“The first bet, £250 on Roger Federer to win at least 14 grand slam titles before 2020 at 66/1, won £16,750 for Oxfam and was claimed last year when Federer won the French Open.”
“In the event that he fails to win this year - and he is 6/4 favourite to do so - the bet does not run out until 2019”
“Mr Newlife's bets could net the charity more than £330,000 over the next 10 years.”
“The bets were placed with bookmakers William Hill between 2000 and 2005.”
“the projected rise in the cost to taxpayers of public sector pensions was "unsustainable" and must be tackled”
“The Office for Budget Responsibility report last week suggested that the difference between the amount paid into and paid out of public sector pensions would more than double over the next four years to £9bn”
“China has effectively pegged the yuan to the US dollar for the last two years.”
“The yuan has stayed at around $0.147 since then”
“Analysts expect the yuan to appreciate slowly - by around 0.2% a month”
“The cost of fighting and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan has passed £20bn, UK government figures show.”
“Of that, £18bn was spent on military operations, on top of the defence budget, while hundreds of millions went on aid and security for UK officials.”
“Britain spent at least £9.24bn in Iraq and £11.1bn in Afghanistan between April 2001 and March 2010, the figures show.”
“about 30% of the UK's defence budget went on operations in Afghanistan.”
“he had set aside £4bn of the 2010-11 Treasury reserve for military operations in Afghanistan.”
“The FCO put aside £118m for this financial year.”
“The true cost of our policy of international adventures is now being shown - £20bn is 10 times the amount it would cost to scrap student fees in England, for example.”
“he had set aside £4bn of the 2010-11 Treasury reserve for military operations in Afghanistan”
“The FCO put aside £118m for this financial year”
“Mr Grainger is engineering manager at Clipper Windpower Marine, the UK arm of the US company in charge of the £44m Britannia build.”
“£30bn package of spending cuts and tax rises”
“VAT will rise to 20%”
“Meanwhile, BP announced that it has already paid out $104 million (£70m) to residents along the Gulf Coast for claims filed as a result of the disaster.”
“BP has agreed to put aside $20bn to compensate victims of the oil spill.”
“Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has urged the chancellor to detail Scotland's share of a £185m renewable energy fund when he announces the emergency Budget.”
“George Osborne will spell out the government's plans to reduce the UK's £156bn deficit on Tuesday.”
“Mr Swinney said being able to invest £185m in renewable energy would make 'a crucial contribution to economic recovery'.”
“Former chancellor Alistair Darling, whose predictions over the size of the spending deficit have turned out to be less worse than earlier thought, accused the Conservatives of using the current climate as an excuse to make 'ideologically d…”
“Whatever the tinkering over the size of the numbers in the deficit, it is the largest peace time deficit this country has ever faced and, untackled, would create unprecedented problems.”
“In March, the UK pledged £150m to Gavi over 10 years.”
“£10m has already been paid out, but there are plans to review all funding of international agencies - of which GAVI is one - as part of a drive to direct money at only the most effective organisations, a spokesperson confirmed.”
“he would set out a four-year plan to deal with it.”
“by £21”
“three-year scheme to exempt start-up firms elsewhere in the UK from paying NI for the first 10 people employed.”
“costs taxpayers about £11bn a year.”
“£48bn worth of spending cuts and tax rises were needed to eradicate the part of the deficit which would not melt away with economic recovery.”
“could actually cost the government as much as £2.48bn in lost revenues.”
“he would set out a four-year plan to deal with it”
“This is expected to take the form of a three-year scheme to exempt start-up firms elsewhere in the UK from paying NI for the first 10 people employed”
“It is expected the employers' threshold for NI will rise slightly - by £21”
“which costs taxpayers about £11bn a year”
“£48bn worth of spending cuts and tax rises were needed to eradicate the part of the deficit which would not melt away with economic recovery”
“could actually cost the government as much as £2.48bn in lost revenues”
“Supporters, including a large number of expatriates, have paid thousands of pounds for flights, accommodation and tickets.”
“The yuan has been held at about 6.83 to the dollar since July 2008.”
“More than £17,500 has been spent topping up the government wine cellar since the election, it has emerged.”
“It brings the total value of fine wine stored for VIP functions to £864,000, a Commons answer by Foreign Office minister Henry Bellingham revealed.”
“ministers revealed 39,500 bottles of wine, spirits and liqueurs worth around £792,000 were in storage.”
“had spent £17,698 on new stock since 6 May.”
“GH usually buys stock two or three times during the year at below the market rate”
“wines from the cellar had only been served at one function since the coalition took office - a dinner for the British-American Business Council on 13 May.”
“a total of £80,662 had been spent on new stock in 2009-10, a 30% reduction on the previous year.”
“deal with the £156bn annual deficit.”
“some could be worth up to £650.”
“A one-litre Merlot wine box at Asda costs £10.”
“Conservative MP Mr Bellingham's written answer revealed that Government Hospitality (GH), the branch of the Foreign Office which manages the cellar, had spent £17,698 on new stock since 6 May.”
“The minister also said a total of £80,662 had been spent on new stock in 2009-10, a 30% reduction on the previous year.”
“Last year, Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster accused the then Labour government of "living way beyond their means" after ministers revealed 39,500 bottles of wine, spirits and liqueurs worth around £792,000 were in storage.”
“Public sector pay and pensions are set to be squeezed in Tuesday's Budget, as ministers seek further spending cuts to deal with the £156bn annual deficit.”
“His attempts to find out exactly what vintages were held to be served at departmental banquets were blocked on commercial sensitivity grounds but he believes some could be worth up to £650.”
“independent MSP Margo Macdonald said she believed it could be time to call a halt on the project amid reports its £545m budget will be exceeded.”
“the call comes after it emerged on Friday that Edinburgh City Council is drawing up plans to borrow another £55m to help fund the scheme.”
“The results will form the basis as Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole councils bid for £400m of government cash to improve transport links.”
“The council says keeping the centre open for another four months will cost it almost £130,000.”
“It highlights a sharp rise in airport departure charges, increasing the tax bill for a family of four on a long-haul flight to £300.”
“There is no way of dealing with an 11% budget deficit just by hitting either the rich or the welfare scrounger.”
“warns that raising Capital Gains Tax (CGT) could cost the government as much as £2.48bn in lost revenues.”
“BP has agreed to put aside $20bn (£13.5bn) to compensate victims of the oil spill - and has vowed to help with the clean-up.”
“On Friday, rating agency Moody's downgraded BP's credit rating by three notches, following similar moves by the other two rating agencies earlier this week.”
“BP says it will withhold dividends until the end of the year as part of its response to the spill.”
“The UN has announced a $71m (£48m) flash appeal for Kyrgyzstan, where it says some 400,000 people have been displaced by inter-ethnic fighting.”
“The local authority is spending £15m a year on loan charges to service its £146m debt.”
“which would have seen the authority's £160m debt at the time wiped out by the Treasury”
“the move could cost the government up to £2.48bn in lost revenues by discouraging individuals from selling assets such as property and shares.”
“Last year it brought in £7.8bn in tax revenues.”
“It seems that for every 1% rise in the capital gains tax rate above a certain fairly low level of around 10 %, you get a 2% drop in revenue”
“when CGT was cut in Ireland from 40% to 20% in 1997 it actually led to a near-tripling of the tax revenue.”
“an increase of the size anticipated in the Budget could leave a hole in government finances equivalent to having to cut an additional 30,000 public sector jobs.”
“In the last Budget in March, the previous government announced extra relief for entrepreneurs, by creating a new CGT lifetime allowance of £1m taxed at a lower rate of 10%.”
“He says his bank, Santander, has told him on several occasions it will not allow him to register more than three countries per trip.”
“Barclays confirmed customers could only register two countries at a time: "As a rule, for the majority of our customers, the ability to register one country per trip is sufficient, which is why our current policy allows customers to regist…”
“Barclaycard said customers could register Europe and that would cover them for all countries in that continent.”
“HSBC, American Express and RBS-Natwest all said ordinarily there was no requirement to notify them.”
“Lloyds TSB, MBNA and Barclaycard would like customers to notify them in advance, but they said they have no strict limit on the number of countries you could register.”
“However it said it was looking again at this policy. "We do however recognise that, for some customers, they want re-assurance when travelling through several countries so we are currently reviewing how we can enhance our current policy," …”
“As a rule, for the majority of our customers, the ability to register one country per trip is sufficient, which is why our current policy allows customers to register a maximum of two countries for any one trip, the bank said.”
“We do however recognise that, for some customers, they want re-assurance when travelling through several countries so we are currently reviewing how we can enhance our current policy, said a spokesman.”
“We try our best to find a balance between providing security and enabling customers to use their card, especially when transactions are made abroad, said a spokesman. If a customer does want to make us aware of imminent travel, they can, e…”
“HSBC, American Express and RBS-Natwest all said ordinarily there is no requirement to notify them.”
“Lloyds TSB, MBNA and Barclaycard would like customers to notify them in advance, but they said they have no strict limit on the number of countries you could register.”
