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• General Procedure For Venue Hiring

  
  Moe's B2B World — Authority: 146
  The next step subsequent to the fixing of the date of wedding is to decide a venue for the event. Venue is decided keeping in view different considerations, for example the type of the gathering, the weather conditions forecast, the amenities accessible pertaining to the event, the amount of the guests, the available ...
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• Public services want to be more accountable. Why dont banks? | Andrew Haldenby

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Public services want to be more accountable. Why dont banks? Something I didnt expect happened at the Reform conference on the agenda of the new government on Tuesday. Remarkably, it was the speakers on government who argued passionately for reducing privilege, enfranchising individuals and decentralising power. ...
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• Sweden seeks EU cap on hedge fund and private equity pay and bonuses

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  • Critics argue EU proposals could leave investors worse off • The directive would cost EU finance firms €3.2bn (£2.1bn) Swedens finance ministry today intervened in the battle over European Union plans to tighten the regulation of hedge funds and private equity with proposals to cap industry bosses pay and ...
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• Pop-up shops cash in for Christmas

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Marmite, HMV and Harvey Nichols are all trying out temporary stores As Christmas approaches, retailers are launching "pop-up" stores around Britain to cash in on some festive spending without a huge investment in bricks and mortar. Marmite has opened one on Regent Street, London, where products such as Marmite ...
  19 hours ago

• Union greets BA-Iberia merger with tough talk on Christmas strike

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  • Unite insists tie-up should not lead to more job losses • Willie Walsh dismisses unfair competition claims The Unite trade union threatened to deepen its industrial dispute with British Airways if the airline cuts more jobs following a £4.3bn merger with Iberia. The union, which launches a ballot for ...
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• Iconix makes offer for Playboy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Famous mens magazine and leading brand is said to be up for sale for $300m as online porn erodes Playboys appeal The bunnies may find themselves looking for a new warren with talk that Playboy, publisher of the eponymous mens magazine and owner of the mansion in Los Angeles that has become a byword for decadent ...
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• Woolworths collapse means a merrier Christmas for its high-street rivals

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  With £2bn of sales up for grabs, stores across Britain have been taken over to share in a retail bonanza On a Wednesday night in late November last year, the directors of one of the high streets biggest retailers gathered sombrely in their boardroom. After exhaustive negotiations with lenders owed £385m, they were ...
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• Keydata default opens door for compensation

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Thousands of investors in line for payouts after Financial Services Compensation Scheme declares failed investment firm Keydata in default Thousands of savers who lost more than £100m following the collapse of investment company Keydata will get compensation after the Financial Services Compensation Scheme this ...
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• World leaders must not use recession to delay action on climate change

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Economic downturn may cut emissions 9% by 2012 but only delay dangerous climate change by 21 months, say economists World leaders cannot use the global recession as an excuse to delay action on climate change, according to leading economists. In a new analysis they predict that the economic downturn will cut carbon ...
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• Total admits Buncefield fire failings

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Four years after largest explosion in peacetime Europe, company pleads guilty to health and safety breaches Oil company Total UK has admitted health and safety breaches in connection with the explosion at the Buncefield oil depot that left more than 40 people injured and damaged hundreds of homes and businesses. The ...
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• Trading away our future in China | Kevin Gallagher

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  The economy is suffering and the planet is warming, but Barack Obamas first visit to China is all about a trade war Barack Obama makes his first trip to China in the middle of a global financial crisis and just weeks before world leaders meet to try to strike a global climate change deal. Leadership from the US and ...
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• Footsie rises for third day, lifted by property developers

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 157
  Property developers and energy stocks helped lift the FTSE 100 index this afternoon, its third consecutive day of gains. On a quiet day for corporate news, British Land was one of the biggest risers ahead of results next Tuesday, up 13.5p to 498.2p, a gain of 2.8%. Liberty International was 19p ahead at 504p, a ...
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• Madoffs former computer programmers arrested over $65bn fraud

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Former computer programmers on Bernard Madoffs staff have been arrested for helping the fraudster hide his Ponzi scheme Two computer programmers who worked for fraudster Bernard Madoff were arrested today on charges of helping to cover up his $65bn (£39bn) swindle. The U.S. attorneys office in New York said that ...
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• British Airways and Iberia hail fantastic merger deal - Summary

  
  The Earth Times Online Newspaper — Authority: 720
  London - British Airways (BA) and Spanish national carrier Iberia Friday hailed their long-awaited merger deal as a giant step forward in taking on global competition but critics said the marriage of the two loss-making airlines smacked of desperatio...
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• Games firm shows value of self-help

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Well see some more good companies go to the wall purely as a result of chronic bank support, which in turn will limit our ability to climb out of this recession quickly, explains Eutechnyx founder Darren Jobling Gateshead may be best known to many Brits as the site of one of the countrys largest shopping malls, the ...
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• Iberia losses drive home logic of British Airways merger

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Large scale combined airline will appeal to investors keen to see both carriers stave off the effects of a deep recession and increased competition from no-frills operators Iberia underlined why it needs a £4.3bn merger with British Airways this morning by reporting a loss during its profitable summer trading ...
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• Growing European economies leave Britain lagging

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  A recovery in exports, helped by an improvement in world trade conditions, was behind the return to growth in spite of the strong euro Britain was left standing in the third quarter as the eurozone firmly exited recession with Germany leading the way, figures showed today. Eurostat said the 16-member blocs economy ...
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• Implications of Iberias merger with British Airways

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  British Airways and Iberia have agreed terms of a £4.3bn merger , creating Europes third-largest airline. What are the implications of the deal? How big will the combined company be? The airlines annual revenues of €15bn (£13.4bn) make it Europes third largest airline by revenues, behind Germanys Lufthansa ...
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• New bank wants your love (and money)

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  About 200 branches of Metro Bank have been planned, and its advertising campaign speculates on gaining public affection "Love your bank". Its not exactly fashionable in the current climate where "hate your bank" – and particularly bankers – is more the craze. Nevertheless it is a slogan that has begun to pop up ...
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• Tullett Prebon suffers another poaching raid by BGC

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Tullett Prebon today admitted that another 81 of its brokers have been poached by rival firm BGC in New York. News that the brokers who have already left or are expected to leave account for around 7.5% of group revenues sent the firms shares down by more than 10%. The shares fell nearly 11%, or 43.4p, to 355.9p ...
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