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...This should help the construction industry with its labour shortages and poor productivity. “It’s boom time for timber,” said Hopkins, whose trade federation represents 1,500 UK companies....
...China now leads the world in solar power development and has dramatically reduced its cost to the world....
...From what we see,the company’s current approach to fixed-cost allocation is completely appropriate, but the effects are magnified by effectively being a one-product company....
...When King George V stayed here in 1912, 40,000 people packed the gardens to watch him arrive. He was a guest of its former owner, the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam....
...Construction services (51% FY20E EBITA) continues to build profitability, with a FY19 EBITA contribution of £125m (vs £95m). UK construction margin was 2.1% (vs 1.5%). Legacy contracts now resolved....
...Every month means higher debt for many households and for companies. Rising unemployment will lead to spending caution. Exports will continue to decline....
...“There hasn’t quite been as big a surplus of gas as everyone thought there was going to be,” said Frank Harris, an analyst at Wood Mackenzie....
...There’s a roaring fire and beautifully dressed staff stand in front of bookshelves, ready to point out the quiet, minimalist corridors that lead to the 55 bedrooms....
...We don’t think it is as case of not being out of the woods yet, so much as not really having entered the woods yet....
...questions about his suitability to lead Balfour....
...The Fun Stuff and Other Essays , by James Wood, Jonathan Cape, RRP£18.99, 352 pages For those who missed Woods’ reviews in The New Yorker, the LRB and The New Republic, this latest collection from the literary...
...This October Milan’s Fluxia presents Luca Francesconi’s delicate copper arrangements and Rolf Nowotny’s suggestive geometric constructions represent Berlin’s Christian Andersen Gallery....
...A judge in Regina v....
...“There is a long way to go before we’re finished,” he says as he leads the tour of the showhome he hopes will be the catalyst to sell a further £1bn of apartments....
...Equally impressive is Santa’s hand-painted (wood pulp, sawdust and glue) face and his festive fur-lined red hood, coat and trousers....
...That has not only given buyers the security they want – Waterliving only sells its houseboats together with long-term mooring rights – but allowed the company to take the lead in a fledgling industry....
...Displaying one of his signature silver-leaf finishes, this desk has a three-drawer pedestal, a built-in lead-lined jardinière and a carved Greek-key pattern....
...Last year, the company posted 85 per cent sales growth. When was it that the traditional Wellington boot underwent its renaissance?...
...The Rotterdam chair is a combination of solid wood construction with a plywood seat and coloured inlays. It also comes with an upholstered coloured leather seat....
...Thomas Wood, chairman Ripon Select Foods. J ohn Wykeham, for services to the National Portrait Gallery....
...Hintze said said their example might encourage others to help the V&A’s next big project, new medieval and renaissance galleries....
...Originals are in the collections at the V&A museum and the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths but a re-edition – of nine pieces made to order and hallmarked with the buyers’ initials – is about to be launched...
...Alan Wood, chief executive of Siemens plc “This is a budget heavily focused on boosting UK education and skills which I warmly welcome....
...Ryder told Harris that Legoland was reviewing its procedures, and he gave a full refund on all of the party’s tickets....
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