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Failed LEP bidder will try again in collaboration
Enterprise M3, the body behind North Hampshire and the M3 corridor’s unsuccessful bid to form a local enterprise partnership, plans to join forces with another, successful, bidder to try and form an enlarged LEP.
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Deals
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£2.5bn bid for Durex maker now unconditional
Slough-based Reckitt Benckiser’s £2.5bn offer for consumer products company SSL, maker of Durex and Scholl, is now wholly unconditional. The update was announced after RB said it received acceptances from SSL shareholders in respect of 86.24 per cent of that company’s shares.
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Fresh Service in deal
Kent-based fresh produce distributor Fresh Service has bought the South East operation of Sheffield-based RW Simpson Transport.
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Property
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Bromley adopts 15-year development plan
Bromley Council in Kent has adopted a comprehensive planning policy framework for managing development in the town over the next 15 years.
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Business
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Willmott Dixon wins £25m college deal
Letchworth-based construction company Willmott Dixon has landed a £25m deal to build a community college in Acklam, Middlesbrough.
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Galliford Try wins £24m contracts
Uxbridge-based housebuilding and construction group Galliford Try has secured two contracts in the commercial sector worth a total of £24.7m.
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Portsmouth to benefit from £15m ships contract
Portsmouth shipworkers will benefit from a £15m, six-year contract won by BAE Systems to replace the 30-year-old propulsion systems on board eight Royal Navy anti-mine ships based in the city.
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BG Group starts oil production in Brazil
Reading-based natural gas company BG Group has started production at an oil field off the coast of Brazil. It is said to have the potential to yield between five and eight billion barrels of oil.
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Dock dredging ‘will attract more ships’
Extensive dredging works are due to start at Portsmouth docks early in the new year in a bid to increase the depth of water by about two metres, meaning bigger and heavier ships can use the port.
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Duke of Edinburgh opens £160m waste site
The Lakeside Energy from Waste (EfW) facility at Colnbrook, near Slough, has been officially opened following the phased takeover of the plant from contractor Itochu/Takuma.
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Record year for Blue Chip
Information technology services provider Blue Chip, which has its main training centre in Southampton, had a record year in 2009/10 with an invoiced turnover in excess of £16m.
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Other News
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Print firm fined £25,000 over workers’ crushed hands
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SE companies among fastest growers
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SSP wins Best Retailer accolade
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Gas price rises are “grim”
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