Westminster street lamp pay-back cut to 750 years
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Now just Â£15m to save Â£20k a year Someone owes Westminster City Council an apology: the amortisation period on its new planet-saving street lamps is not, as we reported yesterday, an astounding 1,450 years, but a rather more modest 750 years.â¦
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By Ian Johnston  JIM Hough managed to get GBP 25 on at 100 to one, while an academic friend staked GBP 50 at 500 to one before the odds plunged. However, for this Glasgow University physicist far more than money is at stake.
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RE the letter from an ex- Scottish Gas customer, I have the same problem.  I pay my son's electricity bill on the internet, and had a message that his payment was to rise by pounds 14 per month, despite the fact that I opted for the capped bill until 2010.
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One of Britain's biggest power companies has announced price hikes of 17.2% for gas and 12.7% for electricity in a move set to hit more than four million households. via Grantham Today
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Jodhaa Akbar grabbed an estimated $1.3 million in North America and $750,000 in the UK.
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Traditional high-energy lightbulb will be taken off the shelves under a government scheme.
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By HAZEL MOLLISON  A CITY woodland is being given a GBP 200,000 makeover with a network of paths, new wardens and thousands of trees.   Work will begin on improving Colinton and Craiglockhart Dells next month thanks to the grant from the Forestry Commission Scotland.
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When Steve Sheinkopf moved into his townhouse in the South End, the two-floor building was dark and empty. But Sheinkopf, sales manager and third-generation family member of Yale Lighting and Appliance, took on the challenges of renovating the unit, using the best lighting from his Boston store.
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Â· Rose also promised Â£4.5m in shares if targets are met  Â· Shopworkers in line for payouts of Â£500 each
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The government will today outline how the National Lottery will be repaid the Â£675m that is to be siphoned off to pay for the escalating costs of the London 2012 Olympics.
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Its decision raises questions over the willingness of local authorities to tap into their estimated 110bn of commercial property - a fifth of Britain's total - as a source of finance.
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BRITAIN&#39;S Silverstone Grand Prix was yesterday saved for the next five years after a Daily Mirror campaign. Formula One rights holder Bernie Ecclestone gave it a reprieve until 2009 by signing
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The cost of the Bloody Sunday inquiry into the deaths of 14 people killed by paratroops in Londonderry in 1972 has risen to 154m, with one QC earning more than 4m.
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By Brian Nearing, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec. 11--ALBANY -- Who is going to pay for Reggie? That's a  quarter-billion dollar question with an answer that could cost anyone in the  state who flips on a light switch.
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A stone carving that was used as a cat&#39;s headstone has sold for Â£200,000 at auction - five times its estimate. The medieval limestone relief of St Peter was discovered at a quarry by a stonemason Johnny Beeston, from Dowlish Wake, Somerset.
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Workers could be offered pay settlements lasting up to three years
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The former boss of the NHS trust where a superbug led to the deaths of 90 people will receive a Â£75,000 pay off.