Chevron to seek UK refinery sale, cut 2,000 jobs The Guardian * Chevron to cut 2,000 downstream jobs in 2010 * To seek bids for UK refinery, other downstream ops * Shares down 0.2 percent in early trading (Adds quote, detail, background, byline, updates share price) By Braden Reddall NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp, the second-largest U.S. oil compa...
Toyota UK car sales shrink in recall backlash The Times | Sales of Toyota cars in the UK have tumbled this year after the Japanese carmaker's crisis over faulty vehicles that has forced it to recall nearly nine million automobiles across the globe. | According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), Toyota sales so far this year fell by...
UK industrial output falls 0.4% in January BBC News | Industrial production in the UK fell unexpectedly in January, as the cold weather dented firms' output, official data has shown. | Output fell by 0.4% compared with December, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Analysts had expected a ri...
ABB drives power UK's largest pumping station Processingtalk | Six 1,250kW ABB industrial drives will be powering the UK's largest pumping station, protecting 700km2 of land in the Cambridgeshire Fens from flooding. | The pumping station at Wiggenhall St Germans will protect more than 25,000 properties, busine...
Congrex UK MD joins the IAPCO council TravelDailyNews | The Congrex Group announces that Sarah Fitzpatrick, Managing Director of Congrex UK, at the recent General Assembly in Athens, was elected to the IAPCO council. | IAPCO is the international association for professional organisers and meeting planne...
Chevron seeks UK refinery sale, to cut 2,000 jobs The Guardian * Chevron to cut 2,000 downstream jobs in 2010 * To seek bids for UK refinery, other downstream ops * Targeting 1 pct oil/gas production growth through 2014 * Shares fall 0.5 pct (Adds context for CEO quote, closing share price) By Braden Reddall NEW...
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Toyota to shut down its UK factory for two weeks The Times | Toyota is to shut down its UK production plant next month, leaving 3,500 workers idle. The unprecedented halt for two working weeks is a result of a collapse in its car sales ami...
Biometrics secure UK construction sites Cranes Today | Tool hire firm Speedy and biometric specialist consultancy Human Recognition Systems (HRS) have joined forces to offer an all-in-one biometric site access system for construction...
Saving Britain's industrial heart The Guardian | Labour, we're told, has rediscovered its manufacturing heartbeat after more than a decade of flirtation with unbridled finance capital culminated in the mother of all post-second world war recessions. Unlike the unreformed Tories, the mantra goes, ...
Britain to lose £4.6bn in exports on EADS exit The Times | Britain has lost a potential £4.6 billion in export orders after Northrop Grumman and EADS, which owns Airbus, pulled out of a bid to supply air-refuelling tankers to the United States Air Force. | Northrop and EADS withdrew from the race for the $...
US, UK threaten support for $3.75 b coal-fired plant in S Africa The Times Of India WASHINGTON: The United States and Britain are threatening to withhold support for a $3.75 billion World Bank loan for a coal-fired plant in South Africa, expanding the battleground in the global debate over who should pay for clean energy. | The oppo...
Britain fends off flood of foreign cyber-attacks The Observer | Foreign states and terrorist groups are regularly launching cyber-attacks on the UK's computer systems with the potential to cause widespread damage, according to the government's security tsar. | Lord West of Spithead, who is parliamentary under-s...
European Stocks to Rise Ahead of U.S. Data Wall Street Journal By MICHELE MAATOUK | LONDON—European stocks were expected to open marginally higher Friday, taking their cue from a late rally on Wall Street, but a degree of caution is likely ahead of the release of key U.S. employment data and as investors await further developments on the Greek debt situation. | "As always this [U.S. nonfarm payrolls] has...
British Airways, cabin crew union still talking Syracuse | (AP) - LONDON - British Airways and a union representing cabin crew are pressing on with talks in an effort to avert a strike. | The negotiations about pay, job security and working conditions are continuing although airline managers and the Unite union had set a deadline for Tuesday afternoon. | Cabin crew voted last month to authorize a strike,...
