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...Asda: billionaire brothers go shopping We’ve told you before about Zuber and Mohsin Issa (pictured below, left and right), brothers from the northern English industrial town of Blackburn who run the petrol...
...“We have been investing while others have been tightening their belts,” says Majid Hussain, managing director of Accrol Papers, a maker of kitchen and toilet rolls, based in Blackburn, Lancashire....
...It could be half a lifetime before they get to Blackburn again. The papers estimated the crowd at up to 3,000....
...Janice Blackburn, philanthropist. Richard Bottomley, senior partner, KPMG. Robert Bowman, philanthropist. Richard Brough, managing director, Jenkins Shipping Ports Services....
...Promethean, the Blackburn-based provider of electronic whiteboards and interactive learning systems for schools, looks to be the first to list, with an announcement expected next month....
...A £700m ($1.14bn) revamp of Preston city centre is the latest big redevelopment to be hit by the recession, with Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster’s property group, pulling out of the project....
...When Britain entered the EEC I was commissioned to engrave glasses for each head of state and also goblets that were presented to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh....
...“The Doris Duke collection won awards for interior decorators,” he added....
...Murray may find a receptive audience in Straw's constituency in Blackburn, northern England, where there is a sizeable Muslim population....
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