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Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn, is to close underperforming restaurants and convert them into hotel rooms with the loss of 1,500 jobs.

The Tory model to avoid a low-wage economy that prevailed during the Regency years reflected a uniquely British school of conservative pragmatism, one that greatly facilitated innovations in science and their industrial application. Railways, gas lighting, the ambitions and achievements of Brunel, McAdam and the others who harnessed science to commerce, they were the first kicks of embryonic modernity

Sharon De Leonardis wants to use the project to educate students more about their roots.

On the 2nd through 4th of February 2010, another meeting, convened by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), was held to consider the implications of certain developments in climate policy in late 2009.

Whitbread is reportedly planning to get rid of 250 sites and Mitchells & Butlers is said to be the frontrunner to buy them in a sale estimated to be worth £600million

There is chatter that automation will unleash a new Industrial Revolution. Anyone who thinks so should take a second look at today's very different political and economic conditions, Edward Chancellor writes.

Premier Inn owner considering sale of chains as it shifts focus to hotels

Around 500 people gathered to pay tribute to him

Around 500 people gathered to pay tribute to him

Around 500 people gathered to pay tribute to him