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“TalkTalk has already cut its early termination fees from between £33.48 and £14.44 to between £8 and £3.”
“BT's fees will come down in October, from between £8 and £7.50 to between £5 and £2.”
“Virgin will also cut its fees in October, from between £29.99 and £11.99 to between £8.35 and £4.”
“Half of what the comhairle spends each year goes on its workforce.”
“The authority faces a funding gap of £5.5m in 2011-12.”
“It said £2m would be sought through efficiency savings and £3.5m through service cuts.”
“Esa spending in 2010 and 2011 has been frozen.”
“Its budget this year is about 3.7bn euros in total.”
“Spain, in particular, which contributes some 5% (195m euros) of Esa's funding is having difficulties meeting its subscription.”
“It has asked the agency, if necessary, to take out a loan to cover any shortfall in that subscription.”
“The full extent of the plans which could save up to £500,000 are expected to be revealed in July or August and will be implemented next April.”
“Energy Secretary Chris Huhne said it seemed like "a very strong commercial deal" adding: "I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be able to be financed from financial markets."”
“£400m revamp of Reading railway station.”
“The coalition government has cancelled 12 projects totalling £2bn agreed to by the previous Labour government since the start of 2010.”
“These include an £80m loan to Sheffield Forgemasters and new programmes for the young unemployed, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander told MPs.”
“He said a further 12 projects with a value of £8.5bn approved since January would be suspended or referred for consideration by the spending review process over the coming months.”
“They included the libraries' modernisation programme and a £7bn PFI deal for a new generation of search and rescue helicopters, which the Treasury says will be reviewed "as a matter of urgency".”
“The 12 projects were axed - and a further 12 suspended - after a review of 217 projects worth £34bn was ordered, amid claims the previous Labour government had embarked on a pre-election "scorched earth" spending policy.”
“The £2bn includes £370m of cuts to government employment schemes that had already been announced as part of a separate plan to cut £6.2bn of public spending this year.”
“BBC chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym said the £2bn figure represented the total cost of the projects over their lifetimes - while the actual money saved this year amounted to less than £0.5bn.”
“The chief secretary also announced an urgent review of inherited spending commitments for 2010-11, totalling at least £1bn, where funding was reliant on underspending.”
“Just days after the closure, the EU signed a $60m (£40.5m) financial and technical co-operation pact with Libya, as a prelude to a wider deal expected to be sealed by the end of the year.”
“The government estimates the series will generate £20m for the local economy.”
“The directors of the companies bought the venues for a reported £13m in 2007.”
“We are waiting for final confirmation of our capital budget for this financial year before we can finalise our time-scales for the project.”
“the league of friends said it was planning to start raising £1m towards the cost in case there were any cuts.”
“The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is to consider a proposal at a cabinet meeting next week to expand a Reading-based scheme into the borough.”
“Reading Credit Union was set up in 2008”
“Reading Credit Union was set up in 2008 and offers loans to residents for items such as school uniforms.”
“He stressed that the UK was fully behind plans for better coordination of national efforts to get budget deficits and debt down and boost growth.”
“What is really important is to get the European economy motoring again.”
“If Britain was fined as a consequence of refusing to adopt new rules, the 260 million euro levy could be split up among the affected City institutions and called a fee”
“adding that it would be a 'fraction of the compliance costs'.”
“after the government cancelled an £80m loan.”
“Mr Coucher earned a basic salary of £605,000 in 2009 and gave up part of his bonus.”
“Network Rail is expected to reveal this month what its directors, including Mr Coucher, earned in 2010.”
“the regulator warned that any bonuses would have to be backed up with 'clear evidence' of the benefits brought to Network Rail.”
“Three Devon charities are getting a share of £600,000 from the will of an Exmouth hotelier.”
“The charity says that getting a homeless person off benefits and into work means a substantial saving for taxpayers, estimated at £62,000 per person, according to a recent report for the government.”
“less than a quarter of the volume of imported supplies they received in December 2005”
“unemployment at 38.6% in early 2010”
“what the UN FAO estimates at $180m of damage to the agricultural sector”
“Unemployment has surged from 30% in 2007 to 40% in 2008, according to the World Bank”
“70% of Gazan families live on less than a dollar a day per person”
“Planned reforms to UK banking regulation would have eased the impact of the global financial crisis, Chancellor George Osborne has said.”
“The proposed overhaul will give the Bank of England the key role in regulating the sector.”
“Such oversight would have seen RBS's disastrous takeover of ABN Amro more closely scrutinised, he added.”
“There would have been someone in the system looking at the overall levels of debt that were rising very rapidly in the middle part of the last decade, the chancellor said.”
“Mr Osborne said the government would also create a powerful new Financial Policy Committee at the Bank of England... Mr Osborne confirmed that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) would 'cease to exist in its current form'.”
“The process of reforming the regulatory system is due to be completed by 2012.”
“FSA chairman Adair Turner told the BBC that the changes would help to address the lack of co-ordination in the existing tripartite system - which sees the FSA, the Bank of England and the Treasury play different regulatory roles.”
“The overall philosophy across the world did not adequately recognise the importance of looking at the overall level of credit in the economy, how asset prices were going up, whether there was a credit bubble that was getting out of control…”
“The biggest concern about the changes lay in the two-year period of transition to the new system, said BBC business editor Robert Peston, citing concerns that the FSA might not have its eye on the ball.”
“However, persuading Mr Sants and Lord Turner to remain at the FSA for this period was 'quite a coup', he added.”
“But he warned that Mr Osborne should expect criticism if another financial storm emerged and regulators were too preoccupied with the minutiae of the financial system overhaul to react properly.”
“In a statement in April, the Safer Birmingham Project (SBP) said it had received £3m from the Home Office to improve community safety and reduce crime in Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook wards.”
“In a statement in April, the Safer Birmingham Project (SBP) said it had received £3m from the Home Office to improve community safety and reduce crime in the Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook wards.”
“BP shares have closed up almost 7% after it agreed to put $20bn (£13.5bn) in a fund to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.”
“the company's stock value halving in recent weeks.”
“The year's first dividend payment of $2.6bn was due on Monday, but has now been cancelled.”
“selling about $10bn worth of 'non-core' assets”
“he would lose £600 in dividend payments”
“BP has agreed to pay $5bn into the fund this year, followed by quarterly payments of $1.25bn until the total $20bn is paid.”
“BP estimates it has spent $1.6bn on containing and cleaning up the oil spill so far.”
“the total cost to the company, including legal costs, could top $40bn.”
“BP's compensation costs may not be limited to the £20bn already planned for the fund”
“The increase halted falls that had led to the company's stock value halving in recent weeks.”
“The year's first dividend payment of $2.6bn was due on Monday, but has now been cancelled. It is the first time that BP has withheld the dividend since World War II.”
“The company also said it would be selling about $10bn worth of "non-core" assets in order to give it more available funds.”
“So far BP estimates it has spent $1.6bn on containing and cleaning up the oil spill so far.”
“Standard Chartered warned last week that the total cost to the company, including legal costs, could top $40bn.”
“One UK shareholder, who said he would lose £600 in dividend payments on top of the declining value of his shares, told BBC News online he felt he had effectively been "robbed by Barack Obama".”
“Councillor Spiers said Reigate council needed to save £4m over the next few years, but the savings target was likely to increase.”
“received a £15,000 settlement after claiming sex discrimination”
“A woman from the travelling community received £500 in a settlement from the supermarket chain Lidl after one of its checkout assistants at a store in Londonderry refused to serve her in January 2008.”
“Another woman who said she was victimised by her employer after refusing to work on Sundays received £10,000 after taking a case to the Fair Employment Tribunal.”
“Compensation totalling £515,981 was paid out to 59 assisted complainants in employment and goods facilities and services cases.”
“The most costly of these is the new food hall, costing £1.77m.”
“lending to small businesses had risen by 5% in the past year”
“it had committed £500m in business loans in 2009”
“it lent £290m to small and medium enterprises that year”
“All four banks have suffered huge losses during the financial crisis”
“Ulster Bank, First Trust and the Bank of Ireland all needing enormous taxpayer-funded bailouts from either the British or Irish governments”
“lending to small businesses had risen by 5% in the past year.”
“The Northern Bank said it had committed £500m in business loans in 2009”
“the Ulster Bank said it lent £290m to small and medium enterprises that year.”
“It also said people with good IT skills earned between three and 10% more than people without such skills, and children's educational performance could be improved by having access to a computer and the internet at home. The document refer…”
“It also said people with good IT skills earned between three and 10% more than people without such skills, and children's educational performance could be improved by having access to a computer and the internet at home.”
“Council budgets rose between 1% and 3% this year”
“a report by local government managers, prepared with support by Deloitte, show large councils could be £120m and smaller councils £30m in the red.”
“He added: 'With capital funding, those projects in infrastructure are going to be dramatically cut over the next five years.'”
“When council budgets were announced last October for the present financial year, councils said at the time they were facing at least five years of 'severe financial pain'. Councils were granted rises of between 1% to just over 3%.”
“In June, Cardiff council sent letters to staff 'reminding' them of its voluntary redundancy scheme as it said it would have to cut £21m from its budget.”
“The chancellor is to break up the Financial Services Authority and charge the Bank of England with preventing risk building up in the finance system.”
“The Financial Times, external says the Bank's governor, Mervyn King, will become one of the world's most powerful bankers.”
“BP's shares rose more than 6% after it agreed to put $20bn (£13.5bn) in a fund to compensate victims of the spill”
“the company's stock value halving in recent weeks”
“BP's shares rose more than 6% after it agreed to put $20bn (£13.5bn) in a fund to compensate victims of the spill.”
“Stress tests of banks will be published at the latest in the second half of July”
“On Wednesday, Spain published the results of stress tests showing how its financial institutions would behave in a future crisis.”
