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...Associated British Ports, which owns 21 ports around Britain, has set out plans to possibly invest £500mn in Port Talbot to service potential floating offshore wind plants in the Irish Sea....
...The problem with this is that it represents what Tim Buckley of the Climate Energy Finance think-tank calls the drug pusher’s argument: if it’s not our coal, it will be someone else’s....
...The money is important, but Jennings’ focus is as much on what Buckley brings emotionally to Matt Talbot and the people who come there....
...He is releasing an Anthony Hopkins brand of perfumed candles and diffusers and an eau de parfum (inspired by the scents of the countryside of his childhood in Margam near Port Talbot in south Wales) to support...
...Trains will take the processed coal to blast furnaces in Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire, Port Talbot in south Wales, and possibly overseas....
...One of its shiny new commissions is Sky Arts Late, a feature-length arts and culture show hosted by the director of London’s Design Museum, Tim Marlow....
...One of the best is Christopher Wheeldon’s 2011 ballet Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, set to a score by Joby Talbot and filmed at the Royal Ballet in 2018....
...(Tom Kibasi, The Guardian) Conservative leadership contest is becoming a no deal arms race (Tim Durrant, Institute for Government) Hard numbers UK construction activity ‘drops like a stone’ to decade...
...(Think of Rip Van Winkle set in the WTO: we’re seeing Tim Burton directing and maybe Johnny Depp as the lead.)...
...Robert Talbot, a retired teacher who chairs the local rail user group, said about 1,000 people have been using the trains each day since its launch on June 18....
...He’s a legend who deserves more recognition,” says Tim Jefferies, principal of Hamiltons. Who needs a street party?...
...“He’s an ultra-Thatcherite libertarian,” says Stephen Kinnock, who, as MP for Aberavon, represents workers at the Port Talbot plant....
...However, it held on to Newport and Neath Port Talbot council. Labour strongholds Glasgow and Cardiff are yet to declare....
...Tim Harford is the author of ‘The Undercover Economist Strikes Back’. Twitter @TimHarford Illustration by Harry Haysom...
...Tim Ferriss, tech investor and author of the Four Hour Work Week, has said almost all the billionaires he knows regularly take hallucinogens....
...: trail of broken trades forces a rethink Dan McCrum, Miles Johnson and David Sheppard, February 12 2016 Keynesian slowdown in a world economy trying to spend less The consequences of cheap oil Tim...
...The weaker pound has been a factor that has pulled Tata Steel’s Port Talbot plant back into profit....
...Mr Martin added: “The generally accepted economic truth is that minimum wages which are appropriate for Notting Hill aren’t always appropriate for Ashington or Port Talbot....
Louise Lucas on Britain's agriculture industry
Actis chief on extraordinary investment period in emerging markets
The FT Olympics editor looks back at the 2012 games
...Lewis Carroll’s frequent visits to Sunderland also inspired the curious graphic novel, Alice in Sunderland, by Bryan Talbot, who made the city his home....
...It ends, as I’ll end now: “‘God bless us every one,’ said Tiny Tim, the last of all.” Lord Hall is chief executive of the Royal Opera House...
...The company breached the terms of its loan agreements on its £174m of senior debt in December and appointed restructuring specialists Talbot Hughes McKillop....
...The giant works at Port Talbot near Swansea now employs 3,500, a third of the workforce at its height, and is undergoing a review....
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