IN BRIEF: Pounds 235,000 Hut
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ONE of the most expensive beach huts in the country has sold for pounds 235,000, an estate agent said yesterday.
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Science & environment: BT is to spend Â£250m building wind farms around the country in the UK's biggest single renewable investment outside of the energy sector.
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Business & money: Households will spend an average of nearly Â£200 on supermarket food in Christmas week
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British store Sainsburyâs today pledged to recruit 3,000 shop floor staff as part of a strategy aimed at growing sales by Â£2.5bn (â¬3.
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A 25% stake in nuclear power station firm British Energy is to go on sale immediately to fund nuclear clean-up costs.
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Business & money: Despite fatal accident in Cumbria, company awards chief executive Â£200,000 payout.
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Extending its homeland security business overseas, Waltham defense giant Raytheon Co. yesterday signed a deal worth $1.35 billion over the next 10 years to help the United Kingdom control its borders.
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BLACK Country specialist manufacturer BST Supplies is celebrating after clinching a record, job-creating deal worth pounds 2.5 million over two years.
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Business & money: The British defence giant has secured an order for 72 Eurofighter Typhoons in a contract worth Â£20bn over the next 20 years.
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Thousands of staff at Tesco will share a Â£175m ($344m) payout from the company's save as you earn scheme.
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THE perfect home for stressed househunters is on the market.  A woodland house designed entirely on the ancient Chinese principles of feng shui is available for pounds 1.1million.
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The governing Labour Party said Tuesday it was 25 million pounds (37 million euros, 51 million dollars) in the red, despite cutting two million pounds off its debts last year.
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Department store group House of Fraser was today poised for a Â£25 million boost from a partnership with Barclaycard to run its store card scheme.
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Business & money: London-based miner says the aluminium producer's board has agreed its $38.1bn offer.
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The pound struck a 26-year high point against the dollar on Tuesday on expectations of further interest-rate rises in Britain.
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Â· Poll finds support rising for EU membership  Â· Labour up a point to 35%, Tories down two to 37%
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The average house price in the UK has almost reached Â£200,000, according to the latest survey from the Halifax.