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• BLUEWATER BIO: Wastewater firm’s global clean sweep

  16-08-2019 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  WATER treatment expert Bluewater Bio, whose cost-effective, eco-friendly technology turns sewage black spots into sweet clean ones, has begun a £28.6 million project in Bahrain.
  
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• Let’s move to Helmsley, North Yorkshire: super sweet and picture perfect

  16-08-2019 17:29 via theguardian.com
  The town is straight off a box of fudge, all honeyed stone and pansies waving from prize-winning basketsWhat’s going for it? Helmsley’s so sweet I can feel the cavities forming in my teeth from 10 miles away. The town is straight off a box of fudge, all honeyed stone and pansies waving from prize-winning hanging baskets. Utterly delicious, with its Norman castle, Palladian pile, secret garden and streets of rigorously renovated and scrupulously scrubbed 18th-century cottages. Just no
  
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• Pound euro exchange rate rises ECB sets up ‘strong’ stimulus package to boost Euro economy

  16-08-2019 12:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  The pound euro exchange rate edged to €1.094 this morning on speculation that the European Central Bank’s planned stimulus package will be bigger than initially expected. Olli Rehn, a member of the ECB’s rate-setting committee, said: “When you’re working with financial markets, it’s often better to overshoot than undershoot, and better to have a very strong package of policy measures than to tinker.”
  
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• Pound US dollar exchange rate: GBP/USD recovery continues as resistance to no-deal Brexit

  16-08-2019 12:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The GBP/USD exchange rate is currently trading at $1.2145, up around 0.4 percent so far this morning. The pound extended gains for a second consecutive day on Friday on a data driven recovery shored up by Brexit optimism.
  
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• FTSE 100 DOWN: FTSE fails to open - What is going on with the UK stock market right now?

  16-08-2019 09:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  LONDON’S FTSE 100 index has not opened at the start of European trading today, triggering concerns. What is going on with the UK stock market right now?
  
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• Homes painted in vibrant colour – in pictures

  16-08-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From chocolate-box charm in Cornwall to a moated 16th-century idyll in Suffolk Continue reading...
  
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• China’s bitcoin rival claims are branded ‘nonsense’

  16-08-2019 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  CHINA’S claim that its cryptocurrency rival to bitcoin is almost ready for launch has been cast into doubt by some of the region’s leading crypto observers. Earlier this week, the deputy director of the People’s Bank of China – Mu Changchun – hinted at an event in Beijing that the cryptocurrency was “very close to being out” and that the bank itself would be the issuer of the digital asset.
  
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