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CommentWonders & blunders
Richard Steer is staggered by an extraordinary structure built for the last Olympics, but is worried that London鈥檚 efforts will be blighted by its industrial past
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Vote with your trolleys
Starting tomorrow morning, my usual trip to Tesco will now be to one of their competitors (鈥淭esco sends design and QS work to India鈥�, 12 March, page 13)
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Loyalty discarded
A bit short-sighted from Tesco. Most of its current business is in UK and it does place a strong emphasis on its loyalty cards so presumably it believes in loyalty 鈥� or am I a bit naive? I will go somewhere else for my shopping in future.George Smith
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Nobody was left
Complaining about Tesco鈥檚 outsourcing of its suppliers, architects and surveyors reminds me of the poem by the German pastor Martin Niem枚ller, First They Came, in which he tells how he failed to speak up when the Nazis took away communists, then trade unionists, and then Jews because he was none ...
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CommentOther Jarvises
You may have noted in the press that the rail maintenance company Jarvis Plc has announced that it is going into administration. We wish to make it known that Jarvis Group Limited has no connections, business or otherwise, with the above named company
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Missing Scotland
We are disappointed that the Scottish government鈥檚 call for a programme of accelerated capital spending of some 拢350m in the Budget has not been answered
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Budget blues
Two years ago they removed the tax relief available for building factories, roads, railways, airports 鈥� that is, industrial building allowances
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Small is beautiful
I have noticed the adverts in 星空传媒 for the Good Employer Guide you will be publishing in October. I think it鈥檚 a real shame you limit entry to firms employing at least 30 UK-based professional staff, and I feel you are missing a trick here
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Keep it clean
As someone who swears too much and is not proud of it, I agree with Chris Winks鈥� letter (5 March, page 27) about unnecessary swear words being printed in 星空传媒
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CommentQuentin Shears: academy@grimston
鈥淭he secret to a healthy team spirit, I have discovered, is a shared vested interest鈥�
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Dubai's expats adjust to life in the slow lane
Visiting Dubai last week, one of the most noticeable differences from previous trips was that I managed to reach all my meetings on time.Gone are the days of sitting in static queues of nose to nose SUVs frantically tapping the blackberry trying to reschedule meetings.Dubai has clearly slowed since the ...
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Why construction firms must recruit financial engineers
Financial engineers 鈥� you can be forgiven for holding them in total contempt. The finger of guilt for the recession ravaging construction firms points witheringly in their direction.But, galling as it might seem, construction now needs financial engineers more than it needs civil, structural, mechanical or electrical engineers.The tools and ...
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Why falling mortgages approval are spooking housing market watchers
The latest figures from the Bank of England showing the number of mortgage approvals at a nine month low have caused a bit of a stir and increased talk of a double dip in the housing market.Here鈥檚 a few reasons why.There is a historic link between the number of mortgage ...
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Good news on the planning front 鈥� rejections fall and applications for new homes rise
The data published today on planning applications on the face of it should provide house builders and their suppliers with some comfort.The figures show that in the final quarter of last year the number of planning decisions for major residential developments 鈥� those with 10 or more homes 鈥� rose ...
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CommentCML certificate: But you said it was fine!
In April 2007 the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) produced a standard form certificate that consultants can be asked to sign concerning the condition of a newly built residential property
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CommentGosh, is that really the time?
Adjudication is not litigation (lawyers please note) and an adjudicator is not obliged to consider in detail new information that comes in at the eleventh hour
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The witness protection scheme
Expert witnesses may be protected from lawsuits for now, but the Supreme Court may be on the brink of overturning that rule
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Dishing the dirt
Whatever else we run out of, there will always be more than enough rubbish to go round. So what should a contractor looking to get its fair share watch out for?
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CommentGod help the first-time buyer
They won鈥檛 be getting a lot of assistance from banks, government, housebuilders or themselves. And that鈥檚 not good news for the rest of the market