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RAIDERS broke into a Shropshire fish and chip shop, did 1,000 [pounds sterling] worth of damage and then fled--with just 4 [pounds sterling]. The raiders broke into Cookies in Market Drayton overnight by forcing a rear door. A police spokesman said that the raiders then used a lump hammer in ......

In related news, CMP Information (CMPi; London), sister company to CMP Technology and a unit of United Business Media, has acquired The Care Show (Ringwood, UK) 450,000 [pounds sterling] plus a further performance deferred payment of up to 350,000 [pounds sterling] over the next year. The Care Show is produced ......

Oxford Instruments' six-month sales ended September 30, 2005 rose 12.7% to 75.3 million [pounds sterling] ($136.9 million), and orders totaled 80.9 million [pounds sterling] ($147.1 million). Analytical sales rose 17% to 35.1 million [pounds sterling] ($63.8 million) (see IBO 11/30/05), and orders grew 26.0% to 39.3 million [pounds sterling] ($71.5 ......

A 7 million [pounds sterling] production line extension at the Richmond Ice Cream plant in Leeds, England, is part of a 60 million [pounds sterling] company-wide investment program which includes a 150,000 [pounds sterling] cryogenic freezing facility and a 6 million [pounds sterling] mix plant at Cross-gates that is now ......

A London-based mobile catering business has received a 2000 [pounds sterling] boost thanks to PG2GO. Start-up catering firm 'Eat Me' received the welcome prize from Unilever Foodsolutions, manufacturer of PG2GO, the all-in-one PG Tips takeaway tea solution. Unilever Foodsolutions ran the promotion to encourage the trial of PG2GO. Operators were ......

United Kingdom: Following its plans to devote more funding to R&D (see IBO 8/15/04), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) announced the allocation of a projected 10 billion [pounds sterling] ($19.1 billion) to R&D by 2008. The UK government's investment in science will rise to more than 3.4 billion ......

Corus has announced a further 10M [pounds sterling] investment at Scunthorpe, one of its main UK steelmaking sites. This investment is the 130M [pounds sterling] announced in February 2005, taking the total investment at the Scunthorpe steelworks to over 200M [pounds sterling] over the past two years. This demonstrates Corus' ......