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UK Blocks Shell Paying Iran Oil Debt in Food, Medicin

23.04.2013 - Britain has blocked efforts by oil major Royal Dutch Shell to settle a $2.3 billion debt it owes Iran by paying in kind with grains or pharmaceuticals, industry sources said. Shell...

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UK Watchdog Accuses GSK Over 'Pay-for-delay' Drug Deals

19.04.2013 - Britain's competition body accused GlaxoSmithKline of market abuse for striking deals with three generic drugmakers that paid them to delay launching cheap copies of its...

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AstraZeneca to Axe 1,600 Jobs in Overhaul of Drug R&D

18.03.2013 - AstraZeneca is to cut around 1,600 jobs as it overhauls research operations and consolidates drug development work in three major centres in Britain, the United States and Sweden...

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UK is Wasting £700 Million on 'Waste'

17.01.2013 - Industry and business in the UK may be rejecting valuable raw materials worth £700 million by failing to capitalise on the potential of recycled materials. Experts say that UK...

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IChemE Welcomes UK Fracking Go-Ahead

14.12.2012 - IChemE is backing a UK government decision to lift an embargo on hydraulic fracturing (better known as fracking) after creating new regulations that it says will reduce the chance...

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Britain Lifts Shale Gas Ban, Imposes Tighter Rules

13.12.2012 - Britain lifted its ban on shale gas exploration on Thursday as it aims to become a European leader in a sector that has transformed the U.S. energy market and counter a fall in the...

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UK Plans Low-Carbon Energy Cost Breaks for Industry

29.11.2012 - Britain plans to exempt industrial energy users from extra costs arising from its electricity market reform following complaints from industry that the costs would harm their...

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Revival of Britain's Northeast Tests Government

11.10.2012 - Tracts of bare ground dot the vast Wilton chemical complex, a reminder of long-demolished plants that bear ghostly witness to the industrial decline of the world's first...