...desperately need is a refocusing of the RDAs because they have picked up a lot of baggage as they have gone along," says John Bridge, chief executive of the Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry. But he adds; "We do need a champion for the region...

...neighbouring Qatar.When the Friendship Bridge opens in 2014, up to 12,000 cars and lorries...more people. Some people are no good."The bridge from Qatar inspires mixed feelings among...1980s, and more than 5m Saudis cross the bridge to Bahrain every year, drawn by its comparatively...

...Club dinner at Mossiman's midweek, Monsieur Levy injected more V's - "for victory" - into his depiction of the recovery. He broke down patterns region by region and sector by sector, applying the V to China and Asia generally.The luxury goods purveyors were all...

Bridges Ventures, the social investing venture capital firm set...Cohen, is to target the property sector for the first time.Bridges has completed the first round of fundraising for a new...have an initial war chest of more than £50m, although Bridges will continue to raise equity over the next 12 months.Michele...

The mere possibility that a $7.4bn technology merger in California might be blocked by regulators nearly half the world away

...policeman trying to warn motorists of a broken bridge. Last night a search in Powys, for a woman...was being hampered by bad weather. Six bridges were reported to have collapsed and all 1,800 bridges in Cumbria were being inspected. The floods...

...needed to build the new £2bn Forth road bridge, even although they are still in dispute...because of corrosion in the suspension bridge's cables.Westminster has rejected a plea...borrow from future budgets to fund the bridge, paying it back over 20 years.But SNP...

...said Gopalapuram Parthasarathy, a former Indian high commissioner to Pakistan.New Delhi and Washington are still struggling to bridge their differences over India's reprocessing of US-supplied nuclear fuel, which must be resolved before India can buy nuclear...

...now being sought to build a second road bridge between Edinburgh and Fife over the River...use - for the busy Forth and Tay road bridges.Mr Stevenson insists the move has not...congestion and was natural justice for bridge users, since both bridges' capital costs...

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