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...It expects sales to fall this year for the first time in its history and having opened new warehouses in Essex, Bristol and Luton, it has more capacity than it needs....
...“There will be two new [customer fulfilment centres] this year, at Bicester and Luton. We are looking beyond that to see if the current contraction merits any acceleration....
...Other airport towns in the UK, such as Luton and Crawley, next to Gatwick, have also been badly affected....
...Funmi Adebayo grew up in Luton, north of London, before coming to City’s Business School to study investment and financial risk management as an undergraduate in 2009....
...The UK stores to be closed are in Aberdeen, Ashton under Lyne, Bedford, Cheshunt, Bluewater, Fareham, Glasgow, Luton, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nuneaton, Reading, Salisbury, Southend, Stirling, Swindon and York...
...report, published on Friday evening, comes just days after KPMG won an appeal against a previous High Court ruling stripping Monarch of the rights to sell its valuable airport slots at London Gatwick and Luton...
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...The area around Stansted, the third-largest airport in the south-east, has a lower population density compared not only with Heathrow but also Gatwick, Luton and London City....
...When the jet was used for charter work the silver vases were placed in LEA’s store at Luton airport....
...“If you work in the City, as a time-pressed customer, you don’t want to schlep it out to Gatwick or Luton, it’s miles away.”...
...Last weekend British comedian Simon Brodkin (best known for his alter-ego Lee Nelson) tried it with the England football squad at Luton airport, and loitered awhile before being spotted by captain Steven...
...They come from all over the UK – from Bradford to London via Birmingham and Luton – and from Europe: Holland, Denmark and Sweden....
...Given that British industry alone uses 30 million plywood panels a year, there is no shortage of potential customers for the EcoSheets being churned out from 2K’s Luton factory – on part of the former Vauxhall...
...For me, at least, it was a reassurance to hear aircraft coming in to land at Luton, to squint at the sodium glare below us and think: down there is a place that some call Dunstable....
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...across the country: William Hague to the North West, Liam Fox to the South East, and Andrew Lansley in the South WestNick Clegg unveils plans to “end the culture of greed” in the City, and campaigns in Luton...
...Brinton – Executive Director of the Association of Universities in the East of EnglandDee Doocey OBE – Chair of the London AssemblyQurban Hussain – Deputy Group Leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Luton...
...Reports by Brian Groom, Jonathan Guthrie, Bob Sherwood and Chris Tighe...
...Jonathan Bate’s script trots (at increasing speed: some re-gearing is required) through the Bard’s biography, illustrating it with greatest-hits excerpts....
...The company said that uncertainty surrounded Ford at Southampton and Vauxhall at Luton as a result of the difficulties facing those businesses....
...Chaudry had set out to prove he could thump anyone who challenged him at the tough Luton comprehensive he attended in the 1970s....
...But Luton, to their immense credit, kept battling....
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