The French company said it has filed a complaint with the European Commission against Ryanair for allegedly receiving millions of euros in illegal subsidies in exchange for using regional airports in France.
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Here’s the story, which presumably earned its place in the Torygraph thanks to the titillating headline it teed-up: Anna Arrowsmith, managing director of adult film company Easy on the Eye, will stand for the party in Gravesham, Kent. Under her pseudonym Anna Span the 38-year-old has produced around 300 pornographic films. She has specialised in “women
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South Stream and Nabucco, the two competing gas pipeline projects supported by Russia and the EU respectively, should combine efforts in a joint cost-cutting drive, according to Eni, an Italian oil company with a stake in South Stream.
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Chester City are no more: the first club I can recall to be actually liquidated, rather than being fashionably put into receivership. They did, however, seem to have fallen into dubious company: In November 2007, the fans were asked to...
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Maybe, it’s from the right company anyway…..
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Senators in the banking committee have agreed in principle to a partially pre-funded "resolution authority" to wind down a failing bank holding company, favouring a structure that would levy a $50bn charge on the industry
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Here's some interesting news about camera sales:The UK has embraced the Micro Four Thirds camera format, making up over 10% of interchangeable lens camera sales (by volume) in December 2009. According to figures from market research company GfK Retail and Technology, around 6,600 Micro Four Thirds cameras were sold in the UK, accounting for more than half of the system's sales volumes in 11 major
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The head of the company managing Oxford university's investment portfolio says her decision to rein in risky investments explains why the assets avoided the double-digit declines of most US colleges last year
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The EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive was designed to cut the cost of dealing in company shares across Europe. But individual traders feel they have not been helped
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Not only do wind farms provide expensive energy, they can be pretty unpopular. At least one in six wind farms have led to complaints about noise causing a lack of sleep or just being "dreadfully irritating". At one wind farm the company switch off the turbines when they turn in a certain direction, in order to keep the noise down! Yet there are still complaints about noise ("like a train that neve...
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PurpleScorpion on 6th Mar 2010 (via thepurplescorpion.blogspot.com)