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...He has been replaced by Matthew Wagstaff, who was formally at the Crown Prosecution Service....
...In Paris, defence group EADS was up 3.5 per cent to €18.53 after it said it had been awarded a $117m contract with the US Coast Guard for maritime patrol aircraft....
...In Paris, EADS sank 4.9 per cent to €16.55 in spite of Spanish carrier Iberia saying it had secured $246m of funding to purchase two Airbus A340-600 aircraft, produced by EADS....
...The company, founded by Sir Terry Matthews, has financed many technology companies in the surrounding area. Steel, the foundation of Newport’s economy for decades, remains important....
...Such convergence is close to the heart of Sir Terry Matthews, the Welsh-Canadian technology entrepreneur, who comes from Newport....
...In addition, it had only two real competitors: EADS, the European aerospace and technology group, and Motorola of the US....
...Heavy responsibility for achieving those goals falls on Trevor Matthews, chief executive of the core UK life assurance business....
...Airbus parent company EADS rose 4 per cent to €23.19. Qantas, the Australian airline, said it was buying nine additional Airbus A320 aircraft for its low-cost unit Jester....
...Matthew Stibbe, editor of ModernPilot.com, draws an interesting comparison between Boeing’s use of blogs and Airbus’s more conventional form of marketing warfare....
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