Historic ships handed Â£31m boost
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Historic ships the Mary Rose and the Cutty Sark are to be given a Â£31m boost out of lottery funds.
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The Cutty Sark, the historic 19th-century clipper that braved rough seas to bring tea to Britain, has been saved from a slow death of rotting and rusting thanks to a public grant, according to newspaper reports.
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Hull is to receive Â£2.1m to help it recover from last month's floods - the biggest share of government aid.
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IRISH investors are buying up huge swathes of British property as money continues to pour over the Irish Sea.
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Fishermen&#39;s leaders gave a welcome yesterday to a deal which will keep open crucial British cod fishing grounds which had been facing closure.
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A Goldman Sachs-led  consortium  beat out Australia&#039;s Macquarie Bank  in an auction for  Associated British Ports  after raising its cash offer  for the group to 2.795 billion pound (&#36;5.15 billion).
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The cruise-ship spa company is sailing to success.
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The UK government today increased to 50 million pounds ($96 million) the aid pledged to victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsunamis that hit nations across the Indian Ocean, making
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A lifejacket from the Titanic is sold for more than Â£40,000 at an auction of items connected to the disaster.
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A record number of original works by Banksy are expected to fetch up to Â£300,000 in total at a London sale.
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LONDON  - A wireless message relayed to a ship rescuing survivors from the Titanic - and sent by Guglielmo Marconi, the creator of wireless radio - was sold for almost &#36;5,500 Cdn Thursday at a British auction house.
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A scheme to compensate WWII victims who had their assets seized by Britain has paid out more Â£21m.
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The British government approved plans to refresh the countryâs fleet of nuclear reactors, signaling new enthusiasm for the technology and giving a lift to the industry.
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Plans to boost defence spending by Â£2.7bn over three years are announced by the Tories.
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Spain's Ferrovial, the fast changing construction company that bought British airports operator BAA last year, said Monday its nine months earnings got a significant boost from the acquisition.
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MACQUARIE Communications Infrastructure Group, owner of most of Australia&#39;s TV and telco transmission towers, has begun its offshore expansion with a Â£1.27 billion ($3.1 billion) deal to buy Britain&#39;s second-biggest transmission group.
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Twenty crew have been rescued from a ship which is listing in the Channel about 35 miles off the Devon coast.