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...“The cut has given drivers some much-needed relief in what has been the most torrid year ever at the pumps, with price records being broken even after duty was cut,” said Nicholas Lyes, RAC head of roads...
...But it was overturned in the Commons, although Cabinet Office minister Lord Nicholas True said the government was already considering “potential future additions” to the list including a veteran’s card and...
...Ofgem also said a second cap, for 4m households that use pre-payment meters to pay for their electricity and gas, will also fall by £25 to £1,217....
...It is an interesting detail that the FT’s new printworks were designed in Docklands by Nicholas Grimshaw in 1988....
...The company said it installed more than 42,000 meters in total, but not all customers received the advanced meters....
...The latest payment follows a £4.5m payout agreed last month after the company failing to fulfill a legally-mandated rollout of advanced electricity meters for business customers....
...The latest research on running suggests that the most efficient runners use a very high cadence, as prescribed in the Pose Method developed by a Russian track coach named Nicholas Romanov....
...of the domestic smart-meter rollout”....
...New markets are being created by the development of clean and efficient technologies, such as solar photovoltaics, electric vehicles, batteries and smart meters. Progress has been remarkable....
...But shares in Energy Assets, a gas and electricity meter manager, rallied 14.4 per cent after its interim results beat market expectations....
...It also blamed a slower than expected rollout of smart meters, installations of which were expected to provide nearly a third of its 2016 operating profit....
...This requires smart meters that tell you the instantaneous cost of the current kilowatt hour....
...The meter was running from the day that we moved in. We felt very lonely there, very exposed: two men living together in this great big country house. It was a statement too far.”...
...His Hong Kong-based colleague, Geoff Nicholas, adds that an acquirer might have legitimate reasons to be less concerned about the existing business....
...Princess Irina was the niece of Tsar Nicholas II....
...The poem is set to the rhythm and meter of Clement Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” (No, we are not making this up.)...
...The starter sounded simple enough – “a tart of fresh scallops with a sauce Nantaise” for six – but the requirements for the diameter and height of the pastry case were followed by daunting instructions...
...But the gas meter has run out, and the neighbours summon her husband....
...Nicholas Iles, UK TH: Why is Softbank’s ownership a problem? I can think of one reason: they neglected to buy my shares of US dotcoms before the crash of 2000!...
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