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...cringe-making behavior of the sailors and marines when in captivity. (As Max Hastings, distinguished military historian and journalist, said in the Daily Mail: Yes, the 15 had a very unpleasant and frightening ordeal, but if they were not ready for such a risk they should have worked at Tesco rather than in the armed forces.) And there has been the extraordinary, pantomimical flip-flop by Britain's Defence Secretary, Des Browne, on whether the sailors and marines could sell their stories (yes they could; oops, no they couldn't) to a media that has itself bounced from treating...
...Construction on the 2012 Olympic sites in London is about to ramp up, providing more jobs. Many Poles in London are "well-qualified workmen with very good experience," says Adam Wasilewski, a Polish immigrant who has invested in his own stoneware business in London and who hires mainly Poles. Tesco and Sainsbury's, the British supermarket chains, are stocking up on Polish brands...
...watched the market share of Australian wines soar from about 1% to more than 21% now - five percentage points ahead of the French - as British drinking habits shifted. Wine has now overtaken beer as the nation's most popular drink, driven in part by supermarket chains such as Tesco and Sainsbury that have made it affordable. Pubs are getting in on the act, too. One chain, J.D. Wetherspoon, is even starting to serve wine on draught at its 650 pubs...
...level dslrs altogether because, notes Fujifilm U.K.'s director of photo products Adrian Clarke, the market is "fiercely competitive." Instead, Fujifilm is banking on the printing business, a strategy that stems from its heritage as a film provider. Sales of its "minilab" printing equipment to British retailers such as Tesco, Boots and Jessops had been reliable for five years, at about 600 units per year. But in 2005, those numbers halved. The company says that major retail customers no longer needed to buy new minilabs, so Fujifilm is now promoting "in-store ordering terminals" to new customers as part...
...dozen of them. It made her wise for her age, and she delivers her reflections on everyday life in natty couplets. Allen sings over the sunny Caribbean vibe of LDN, "There was a little old lady, who was walkin' down the road, She was struggling with bags from Tesco/ There were people from the City having lunch in the park/ I believe that it's called alfresco." The little old lady then gets mugged. Allen bemoans modern life over hyper '60s pop on Everything's Just Wonderful: "In the magazines they talk about weight loss/ If I buy those jeans...