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Published: December 18, 2009

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James Cameron has done it again. “Avatar” lives up its billing as the next thing in movie imagination.

If something is not done soon, Bietry’s own job could be might be on the line, as PSG’s owners, the television station Canal Plus, will not wait for ever for a turnaround in fortunes.NetherlandsTHE DUTCH champions, Ajax, announced yesterday that they are in talks with the Belgian First Division team, Germinal Ekeren, with a view to forming some sort of partnership. I’m reasonably pleased but I’d rather have none and see Newcastle at the top.”England fans, nevertheless, will be happy to see Shearer in such prime form even though doubts persist about the long-term effectiveness of his strike partnership with Michael Owen.”My confidence is very high but it would be fine whether I had scored or not,” he said “There’s a certain buzz in the England camp. We’ve only been here for one day but it’s as if we’ve not been away.”We certainly know how big a game it is on Saturday and we must put in an improved performance from the last one. It’s vitally important that we win the game and that’s what we’re aiming to do.”. France

BERNARD TAPIE, the former politician and tycoon who was convicted of rigging a football match involving Marseilles, the club he owned, is re- pleading his innocence – on a rap record. The song, a duet with French rap star Doc Gyneco and entitled Life’s Great, has Gyneco asking Tapie whether it’s true he paid the Valenciennes team to throw a crucial game in 1993.

“I was player of the month but I had the management team and the players around me to thank for that, because we had a good month and I’m only doing what I get paid for. It would be foolish of me to say that.”Following a lengthy lay-off through injury last season it took Shearer some time to regain his sharpness but eight goals so far this season would suggest that he is back to his best, Newcastle’s form in general notwithstanding.Shearer though, shrugs it all off “My own form is irrelevant,” he said. Just because I’ve scored a few goals people think that I’ve been playing well.”But I’ve always said it’s very unfair to judge a forward on goals alone. A league title with his home-town club would undoubtedly mean even more, but it seems Shearer’s professionalism will not allow sentiment to cloud his judgement if the time comes to move on.”I said some time ago I’m happy to stay at Newcastle but I want to win things The club are very ambitious, they made that clear to me. I want to win things but so does the chairman and so does the manager I’m certainly not going to set a time limit,” he added. “I’m contracted to Newcastle United and that’s as far as it goes.”A move to the continent has never appeared to be high on Shearer’s list of priorities, but yesterday he admitted: “I’ve never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never. He’s certainly experienced enough.”Shearer’s own experiences as a player have included championship glory with Blackburn.

Shearer, somewhat tersely, deferred to his manager on the question of new signings. “That’s what he’s getting paid for now,” Shearer said of Gullit “It’s his decision. My job is to go out and play football and his job is to manage a football club, and he’ll do whatever he sees fit to do Whether that needs new players, he’ll decide. When I shook hands with him at the end of the game I said ‘Well done’, then I pulled him back and said, ‘I don’t know what I said that for because you haven’t done anything.’ “In the short term at least there do not seem to be any easy answers to Newcastle’s dilemma as the club will have to sell before it can buy the kind of players the Geordie faithful want to see on Tyneside. “Without doubt Arsenal are one of the best, if not the best, and that’s what we want to be.”I don’t think we troubled David Seaman once.

“Sunday’s performance wasn’t good enough and it just shows how far we’ve got to go,” he said. Three wins in a row prior to the Highbury game might not sound too bad, but the vanquished sides were Southampton, Coventry and Nottingham Forest – the current bottom three in the Premiership – and rumours of Shearer’s discontent have remained rife ever since the Dutchman arrived to replace Shearer’s friend, Kenny Dalglish, at the helm. The two personalities involved seemed unlikely to hit it off, although Shearer has yet to experience the frustrations of the squad system that Gullit favoured in his first managerial post at Chelsea.
But yesterday, after linking up with the England squad for training at Bisham Abbey, Shearer was evidently still smarting from Sunday’s defeat down the road at Highbury. Their former player, Mike Ford, who was regarded as a strong contender, has ruled himself out, saying that the club has not been in touch, but has admitted that he would be interested in the vacancy at Featherstone.Castleford have signed the Fijian prop and captain, James Pickering, while Warrington have put their teenager scrum-half, John Duffy, on the transfer list at pounds 25,000. Beaten 3-0 at Arsenal on Sunday, it is taking time for the Gullit effect to come into play at St James’ Park.

It is a chance for England to put behind them last month’s disappointment in Stockholm and for Shearer in particular, these 10 days with the national team should provide the perfect tonic to his current travails with his beloved Newcastle United. FOR ALAN SHEARER, the opportunity to lead his country once again – against Bulgaria at Wembley on Saturday – will be welcome in more ways than one. New Zealand won the first Test in April and Endacott said: “If they [Australia] are not on their game, they could find themselves 2-0 down.”. Stuart Raper said: “James is a world-class player and he is a major acquisition for the club.”The New Zealand coach, Frank Endacott, believes his team can seal their first series against Australia since 1953 on Friday. Pickering, 28, who has made 14 first-grade appearances for Sydney City this season, is the Tigers’ second capture from Australia for the 1999 season following the signing of hooker Aaron Raper, brother of coach Stuart. Their forward, Neil Mawdesley, was involved in a skirmish with security staff at a night club during which a baseball bat and a gun were produced. Mawdesley was hit in the face with a pistol-butt and then cut on the head by a shot.

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Teatr Biuro Podrozy wants to counter any idea that it is a one-export wonder. When it was performed last month outside the National Theatre in London, the sight of a 12ft-high Death wielding a scythe stopped the traffic on Waterloo Bridge.
The show is being performed for the last time tomorrow night in Edinburgh in aid of Kosovan refugees. Five people in everyday clothing are plucked from the audience’s midst by masked, whip-wielding figures on stilts, terrorised, stripped, defiled, made homeless and finally incinerated – on paper, it sounds like crude agit-prop; live, it could choke the most detached bystander. Through a handful of well-chosen images, inspired in part by the testimonies of Bosnian refugees, it communicated the senseless horrors of war on an epic scale.

Since it received its first performance outside Poland in an Edinburgh school playground in 1995, Carmen Funebre (“Funeral Song”) has toured to 29 countries. Szkotak is responsible for probably the most successful piece of outdoor theatre yet staged at the Edinburgh Festival. His company is called Teatr Biuro Podrozy – “travel agency” in Polish. If he were selling you a summer holiday, you’d probably go elsewhere His work is rather more eloquent, however. When asked about his artistic credo, the matchstick-thin 34-year-old director says “I try to choose subjects that are important to me” or “The actor must identify with the subject”. Just don’t expect our lives to be as interesting.Fiona Sturges. Pawel Szkotak is having difficulty expressing himself in words.

At least, what he says, when translated into English, has an alarming tendency to sound generalised and repetitive. Sled is rooted in a wartime experience in Russia in which Beuys was brought back to life by nomadic Tartars who rubbed butter into his body and wrapped him in felt to keep him warm. Like a child packs a knapsack of vitals before embarking on a playtime adventure, Beuys takes fat and felt in order to survive.With such tales to tell, Editions is a fascinating record of an extraordinary existence. But others refer to experiences which are undoubtedly extraordinary. Some appear collected in the way a child hoards peculiar trinkets – a sachet of sugar, a pair of tin cans joined by string, a piece of wrapping paper. You may have the feeling that you are poking through someone’s belongings in Editions, but what you have at the end of the show is a pretty good idea of Beuys’s media lifestyle.The banality of some of the objects are engaging, though.

But most analysts say it is unlikely to seriously damage his government because of Paraguay’s macho culture.PRESIDENTIAL APOLOGYOn Friday, Lugo, 57, apologized for the scandal in an attempt to move forward. His lawyers, he said, were dealing with the claims submitted by the second and third women.One woman, Benigna Leguizamon, a poor, 27-year-old soap vendor, wants child support for her 6-year-old son who she said Lugo had fathered.Another woman, Damiana Hortensia Moran, 39, has defended the president and initially said she did not intend to sue him. “Who can you trust if you can’t trust a bishop?”Others voiced support for the president, dismissing the uproar as orchestrated by the Colorado party that Lugo ousted from power and many Paraguayans blame for the country’s corruption.”Why is this coming out now?” asked Rafael Quiroz, a mechanic. “The Colorados want to undermine him.”Polls show Lugo’s popularity has fallen to below 50 percent from nearly 70 percent before the scandal.

Some jokes take aim at Lugo breaking his celibacy vows, but apparently respecting church rules against condoms.Radio and TV talk shows buzz with the latest rumors, some suggesting Lugo may have even more children.Many Paraguayans chuckle when asked about the scandal. But some express disillusionment with Lugo, who swept to office as a political outsider last year, ending more than 60 years of one-party rule in one of the world’s most corrupt countries.”We thought we’d finally found the answer to fix our broken political system,” said Jorge Giminez, a 34-year-old bus driver. All other trademarks are the properties of their respectiveowners. NOTE TO EDITORS: Further technology, corporate citizenship and executive news isavailable on the Agilent news site at Agilent Technologies Inc.Rebecca Teo, +65 6215 Janet Smith, +Copyright Business Wire 2009. (NYSE: A) is the world`s premier measurement companyand a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences andchemical analysis.

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Both easily won service games until Chela broke Johansson for a 5-4 first-set lead when the Swede began to make unforced errors. Chela scored points with passing shots against the former Australian Open champion.
France also moved into April’s quarter-finals, where they will play Russia, with a 3-2 win against Germany after dropping two meaningless singles on Sunday. Argentina completed a 5-0 rout of Sweden on Sunday to set up a Davis Cup quarter-final against defending champions Croatia who beat Austria. Juan Ignacio Chela beat 13th-ranked Thomas Johansson 6-4, 6-1 in the reverse singles, handing the Swede his second upset of the World Group tie Jose Acasuso defeated Jonas Bjorkman 6-0, 6-1. Replacements: M Dawson (Wasps) for Ellis, 56; L Mears (Bath) for Thompson, 64; J White (Leicester) for Sheridan, 64; L Dallaglio (Wasps) for Worsley 69; S Shaw (Wasps) for Grewcock, 75; J Simpson-Daniel (Gloucester), for Tindall, 82.Referee: K Deaker (New Zealand).Stadio Flaminio statistics* TOP CARRIERSMike Tindall 9Ben Cohen 7Lewis Moody 7Jamie Noon 6Cristian Stoica 6* TOP TACKLERSSergio Parisse 14Mauro Bergamasco 13Josh Sole 13Carlos Nieto 11Mirco Bergamasco 9* MISSED TACKLESJosh Sole 3Gonzalo Canale 2Santiago Dellape 2Paul Griffen 2Mirco Bergamasco 2* MOST OFFLOADSMark Cueto 2Danny Grewcock 2Ramiro Pez 2Joe Worsley 2Gonzalo Canale 1* MOST ERRORSDanny Grewcock 3Ramiro Pez 3Carlo Festuccia 2Mike Tindall 2Marco Bortolami 1.

Replacements: C Del Fava (Bourgoin) for Dellape, 58; A Persico (Agen) for Sole, 58; S Picone (Treviso) for Canavosio, 62; C Festuccia (Gran Parma) for Ongaro, 68; M Castrogiovanni (Calvisano) for Nieto, 68; A Lo Cicero (L’Aquila) for Perugini, 72.England: T Voyce (Wasps); M Cueto (Sale), J Noon (Newcastle), M Tindall (Gloucester), B Cohen (Northampton); C Hodgson (Sale), H Ellis (Leicester); A Sheridan (Sale), S Thompson (Northampton), M Stevens (Bath), D Grewcock (Bath), S Borthwick (Bath), J Worsley (Wasps), L Moody (Leicester), M Corry (Leicester, capt). If, as the Azzurri did at the weekend in paving the way for Ramiro Pez to drop the goals that briefly threatened a rewriting of the form book, an opposing pack stays on terms for long periods of time, that game can be neutered.There again, the Italian forwards are quite something these days. But for Borthwick’s dismantling of their line-out, they might have scored more than the one try finished by Mirco Bergamasco from Gonzalo Canale’s dashing break past Jamie Noon and Matt Dawson in midfield. The world champions will not encounter a more forthright pack for the remainder of the season. Rugby types may talk in clich?and England may spend much of their time playing in one, but just at the moment, it is good enough.Italy: C Stoica (Montpellier); P Canavosio (Calvisano), G Canale (Clermont Auvergne), Mirco Bergamasco (Stade Fran?s), L Nitoglia (Calvisano); R Pez (Perpignan), P Griffen (Calvisano); S Perugini (Calvisano), F Ongaro (Treviso), C Nieto (Viadana), S Dellape (Agen), M Bortolami (Narbonne, capt), J Sole (Viadana), Mauro Bergamasco (Stade Fran?s), S Parisse (Stade Fran?s).

It was the most beautiful feeling in the world, seeing their open-side flanker flying up on Charlie Hodgson and leaving a hole for me And just for once, I managed a side-step as well. Despite Robinson’s insistence that his side can play two or three styles of rugby, and that his midfield can unlock more secure defences than the Italian one with the right kind of quick ball, there is no denying that the power game is the one closest to their hearts. Who’d have thought it?”This was not an England performance constructed on the grand scale – certainly not on the Grand Slam scale. “I’m enjoying the time I get on the ball, and the try was something to remember. Besides, I was feeling pretty fuzzy.”With Tindall contributing a performance Robinson identified as “his best attacking display in an England shirt”, there will be no great agonising when the coaches come to select their side for the Calcutta Cup match in Edinburgh a week on Saturday.

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It was auf Wiedersehen to the dachshund and bonjour to the poodle as Manhattan’s dog lovers pondered the latest, much anticipated, list of top 10 breeds on their pooch-congested isle. The recording shows how Brandes was stabbed and allowed to bleed to death and how Meiwes ate parts of his body.State prosecutors argue the video proves the accused killed for his own sexual pleasure. During his initial trial it emerged that Meiwes cut up his victim’s body, put the parts in his freezer and ate them over a period of months. If convicted of murder, he will face a maximum term of life in jail.Meiwes’ lawyers insist their client killed a willing victim and that his act was akin to euthanasia, as Brandes had claimed he wanted to be killed and eaten. In a recent interview conducted from jail, Meiwes said: “I understand and deeply regret what I did, but the victim wanted me to do it.

Otherwise, I would never have touched him.”Meiwes is working with a German film-maker on a documentary about his life.. They argued the sentence was too lenient and ordered a retrial – this time on charges of murder.Looking relaxed, Meiwes joked with his lawyers yesterday as a prosecutor, Marcus K?r, told the court in Frankfurt: “The defendant stands accused of murder for sexual gratification.”The prosecution’s case is based on the contents of a video shot by Meiwes during his act of cannibalism at his farmhouse in Rotenburg in 2001. She also told the court that her date of birth had been given incorrectly She was born on 26 April, 1981, she said. District Judge Caroline Tubbs said: “You have pleaded guilty to a serious matter of assault on a police officer performing her duty and all sentencing options will be open and that does include a custodial sentence.” The case was adjourned for a pre-sentence report until 19 January.

In a 2004 trial, Armin Meiwes, 44, known as the “Cannibal of Rotenburg”, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for eight years after judges decided his victim, Bernd J?n Brandes, 42, had volunteered to be killed and eaten.
However, Germany’s appeals court ruled last spring that the judges had overlooked evidence which suggested he had killed for sexual pleasure. A self-confessed cannibal smiled and joked as he opened a legal battle to escape life imprisonment at the start of a retrial for killing and eating a homosexual computer engineer he met via the internet. Finding he had backed the losing side, Columbus expunged his former identity and hispanicised his name to avoid reprisals and keep support for his planned voyage.Valladolid, north of Madrid, will host quincentenary commemorations of the explorer’s death in May, by which time investigators in Catalonia hope to be able to confirm his nationality.. One historian reckons most of the places named by Colombus can be linked directly to the Balearic island of Ibiza.Historians speculate that Columbus may have been a Catalan noble who joined a failed uprising against King Joan II of Aragon, father of King Ferdinand, and took orders from the French in acts of piracy, including the sinking of Portuguese galleons. Linguists favour the idea, saying that Columbus used Catalan – or something like it – rather than Italian or Castilian Spanish in his writings, and gave many of his discoveries in the New World Catalan names. If we find a Y chromosome (the only one that males inherit by the paternal line) we could say they were related,” a spokesman for Mr Acosta said this week.The first historian to suggest Columbus was Catalan was a Peruvian, Luis Ulloa Cisneros, who published his theory in Paris in 1927. Investigators will compare the results with DNA from Columbus’ illegitimate son Hernando, whose remains lie in Seville cathedral.”We are not looking for descendants of Columbus, but a common ancestor who may be the link between the Admiral and today’s Coloms.

I think he can give as good as he gets but isn’t necessarily a bully. He may be an essentially good man sitting atop some dark and occasionally explosive forces. Tim, do you ever fear breaking down yourself? “Of course, one fears it round every corner.” I think he may be more complicated than Richard Branson or Terence Conran, actually. Certainly, he is much more open.He was born and brought up in Crowborough, Sussex. His father, Malcolm, was a Second World War drummer who became a tea-broker. He loved his father “hugely”, he says, then adds “although I never had a good relationship with him” Why not? He isn’t sure They just never hit it off.

Could you change it? I’ll pay for the cappuccino, of course.” I tell Tim to buck up You own the place, man Fire the boy Tim cringes and says he couldn’t. The place is jam-packed with the sorts of families who dress their little girls in top-quality tartan skirts and make their boys wear sailor suits to weddings It is very Chelsea. Yes, there’s Barbie and Action Man but there’s also a pounds 2,600 play cottage with a real thatched roof Crikey, I say, you could buy a house in Manchester for that True, says Tim, “but we’ve just sold two” He is not into money per se himself, he says. “Look at my cuffs,” he cries.We go to the soda fountain, where Tim orders tea but is given a cappuccino “Awfully sorry,” he says to the waiter, “but I ordered tea. But other men aren’t entrepreneurial visionaries like Tim.Anyway, I meet Tim at Daisy & Tom on a Saturday afternoon, when business is brisk, to say the least.

He got the idea for Daisy & Tom from noting how his third wife, Rosie, seemed to spend most weekends schlepping their two young daughters, Daisy and Lucy, from shoe shop to clothes shop to toy shop. So, he thought, why not one shop that sells clothes and shoes and toys? Yes, other men might have just given Rosie a hand. He took bookselling from something people used to do as a favour or a hobby and turned it into something much sexier, and much more rock ‘n’ roll.After selling Waterstone’s, Tim remained as a consultant for five years, then moved away to write three novels and open Daisy & Tom, a sort of children’s department store on the King’s Road in London which will soon, he says, be established nationwide. If you were very brave, you could venture into London, to Foyles, but with its chits, confused staff and layout it had all the appeal of a sub-post-office in Karachi.What Tim did was create big shops you could walk around, that had good layouts, more than 50,000 titles always in stock, excellent specialist sections, long opening hours and staff who were graduates who may have read a book or two. He may, even, have done more than anyone to transform literary Britain than anyone else.

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Carrie Prejean will file a lawsuit against Miss California USA officials for stripping her of the title earlier this year, her attorney announced Monday.

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A joint effort by the School of Journalism and MassCommunication () and the College of Engineering andApplied Science ( ), BDW is led by acclaimedpractitioners and researchers from business, creative, and technologydisciplines. BRLI operates as a national oncology laboratoryunder its GenPath label. These policies have been consistently applied to all the periodspresented, unless otherwise stated (refer to Note 3 (e), New AccountingPronouncements). All holes drilled by Thundermin and Cornerstoneare NQ in size. The acquisition also requires approval by the European Commission.Shares in the Santa Clara, California-based Sun slipped 0.2 percent to $9.32 after closing at $9.34 on the Nasdaq.Shares in Redwood City, California-based Oracle held steady after-hours after closing at $22.16 on the Nasdaq.(Reporting by Clare Baldwin; editing by Carol Bishopric) France. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 CAIRO – Central bank’s monetary policy committee due tomeet. The report outlines major sectordevelopments, industry regulations, a list of the leading companies, totalworkforce, and supply and demand specifics.

“TriZetto Advantage 10 Services help payers comply with the ICD-10 mandate andalso harness the more specific claims data to drive Integrated HealthcareManagement (IHM) changes like the design of benefit programs that promotehealthier lifestyles and improve care,” said Mike Jenner, executive vicepresident of TriZetto Services. “Done well, the ICD-10 migration can supportinitiatives such as designing payment incentives for providers that reward valueand discourage poor quality and inefficiency. With thoughtful planning andskill, payers can leverage their applications and new coding structures toachieve IHM.” A recent survey of healthcare payers conducted by The Gantry Group on behalf ofTriZetto found that 76 percent of respondents plan to leverage the ICD-10 andANSI 5010 migration to transform the way they do business and drive competitiveadvantages, highlighting a significant market need for solutions that offer morethan code remediation and testing. “While some payers will likely choose to merely `keep the lights on` bycomplying with the mandates, many payers will also use ICD-10 as a strategictool,” said Janice Young, program director, Health Industry Insights.

“ICD-10can be used to make more efficient investments in new technologies that enablehealthcare payers to improve efficiency, customer management, care delivery andinformation delivery.” The full set of TriZetto Advantage 10 Services includes:* Readiness–Cross-organizational education and training plus an analysis offive key planning activities, which is captured in a 5010/ICD-10 ReadinessScorecard, ranks the organizational knowledge on the migration strategy, themigration plan, resource issues and provides a high-level budget for thetransition process. * Impact Planning– Identifies areas of the organization that will be affectedby the migrations, creates an enterprise inventory of business and technicalimpact and assesses the readiness of trading partners. It also builds aninventory of the data and reports that require conversion and presents codetranslation options. * Business Alignment–Evaluates and details necessary changes to utilization,care and disease management initiatives, customer service workflow and claimsadministration processes, ICD-9 and ICD-10 code crosswalks and providercontracts. * Systems Alignment– Defines the priorities, sequence and testing strategy ofthe upgrade path/implementation cycles for core, care and constituent systems.Maps codes, reconfigures products, implements interface changes, coordinatestrading partner activity, and develops and implements test plans.

Gaugesoperational readiness for Operational Leverage and Transition to be IHM-enabled.* Operational Leverage–Aligns new coding, benefits and configuration changes.Develops targeted, specialty product, benefit and care plans that betterleverage the value of the new coding system Enhances business intelligence andmedical savings analytics. Defines the operational and overall businessreadiness and competitiveness for transition. * Transition–Completes all planned system conversions, alignments andcustomizations while supporting or phasing out Legacy systems Ensuresdual-operation processes are functional. Completes full vendor/trading partnerprocessing and reporting, and aligns data conversion and reporting warehouse.Includes the finalization of any IHM-enabled matrices and materials todemonstrate overall impacts and benefits and the completion of the finalevaluation and update to 5010/ CD-10 Strategic Roadmap for costs, impacts andbenefits.Payers can purchase TriZetto Advantage 10 Services individually or in bundledpackages. The packaged offerings include Strategic Roadmap (Readiness throughBusiness Alignment), Compliance (Readiness through Systems Alignment) andIHM-Enabled (Readiness through Transition). For information on TriZettoAdvantage 10 Services and how to leverage 5010 and ICD-10 migration to power IHMinitiatives, please call 1-800-569-1222 or visit http:// TriZettoFounded in 1997, TriZetto is the leading privately held healthcare informationtechnology company to the healthcare payer industry With its technologytouching half of the U.S.

insured population, TriZetto is Powering IntegratedHealthcare Management. TriZetto provides information technology solutions thatenable health insurance payers and other constituents in the healthcare supplychain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers.The company`s offerings include enterprise and component software, and servicesthat help payers implement and optimize their operations and minimize the riskof bringing new products to market that drive competitive differentiation. The TriZetto GroupLoren Finkelstein, orSchwartz CommunicationsMelissa Bruno, Copyright Business Wire 2009. The Right Hero at the Right TimeREDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(Business Wire)–Trion World Network, Inc.

United News & Media has put its regional newspaper interests up for sale with a price tag of more than pounds 400m. The move follows months of speculation that Lord Hollick’s media group would ditch its regional papers in order to focus on television and national newspapers Cathy Newman reports. Kleinwort Benson has been approaching interested parties on United’s behalf about the sale of titles which include the Yorkshire Post. United Provincial Newspapers is the fourth-largest regional newspaper publisher in the UK, with 61 papers in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Surrey and Essex.
Five prominent regional newspaper groups are known to have been approached. These are believed to include Newsquest Media Group, which came to the stock market in October, Trinity International Holdings, the biggest regional press player, Independent Newspapers, Northcliffe Newspapers and Johnston Press.

Newsquest, which was formed after Reed Regional Newspapers was sold to a management buyout two years ago, has in the past made public its interest in UPN. However, Jim Brown, chairman, was not available for comment last night.Industry sources suggested last night that Newsquest could face monopoly problems if it bought UPN. Newsquest operates in areas such as Yorkshire and Lancashire. Some analysts said Trinity would be the favourite buyer, although it too has newspapers in Yorkshire.In response to calls about the sale, United issued a statement after the market had closed confirming it had “received a number of approaches from third parties indicating their interest in acquiring these businesses”. It added: “The board is considering a range of alternatives including the further development of its regional newspaper businesses.”The disposal also includes UPN Espana, the company’s Spanish regional paper division, and the free newspapers within United Advertising Publications (UAP). However UAP’s flagship title, Exchange & Mart, will be retained by United.The sale of UPN will be seen as one of the final stages of consolidation in the regional newspaper industry.

Trinity kicked off a frenetic round of mergers and acquisitions by snapping up Thomson Regional Newspapers for pounds 327.5m in November 1995. More corporate activity followed with Johnston buying Emap’s regional titles, and Newsquest acquiring Westminster Press from Pearson. Most recently, Mirror Group added Midland Independent Newspapers to its newspaper interests, paying pounds 297m in July this year.United raised pounds 31.5m by selling its Welsh regional papers to Southern Newspapers a year ago. However it reneged on its intention to dispose of its papers in South-east England after the potential buyers failed to meet United’s asking price.

Fluctuations in propertyvalues, which are reflected in the Income Statement and Balance Sheet, aredependent on an annual valuation of commercial properties. During recent yearshealthy surpluses have been shown in the group’s annual year end propertyvaluations, but a fall in UK commercial property has had a marked effect inprofitability and the net asset value of the group. However, due to the longterm nature of the leases, the effect on cash flows from property investmentactivities will remain stable as long as tenants remain in operation.Future developmentThe group seeks to expand its operations in South Africa through theacquisition of additional coal reserves.Environment and employmentThe group’s UK activities are principally property investment whereby weprovide premises which are rented to retail businesses. Income for the year was derivedfrom sales of coal from its South African operations. The company also has aproperty investment portfolio for which it receives rental income.The results for the year and state of affairs of the group and the company at31 December 2008 are shown on pages 29 to 50 and in the Mining Review andBusiness Review on pages 6 to 15. Future developments and prospects are alsocovered in the Mining Review. Over 99 per cent of staff are employed in theSouth African coal mining industry – employment matters and health and safetyare dealt with in the Mining and Business reviews.Corporate responsibilityEnvironment:The environmental issues of the group’s South African coal miningoperations are covered in the Mining Report and Business Review on pages 6 to15.The group’s UK activities are principally property investment whereby premisesare provided for rent to retail businesses.

The group seeks to provide thosetenants with good quality premises from which they can operate in an efficientand environmentally friendly manner. Wherever possible, improvements, repairsand replacements are made in an environmentally efficient manner and wastere-cycling arrangements are in place at all the company’s locations.Employment: The group’s policy is to attract staff and motivate employees byoffering competitive terms of employment. The group provides equalopportunities to all employees and prospective employees including those whoare disabled. The Mining Review gives details of the group’s activities andpolicies concerning the employment, training, health and safety and communitysupport and social development concerning the group’s employees in SouthAfrica.DividendThe directors recommend the payment of a dividend of 3.5p per share (2007:3.00p) on the ordinary share capital for the year under review. The dividendwill be payable on Monday 10 August 2009 to shareholders registered at theclose of business on 4 July 2009. The ex-dividend date will be 2 July 2009.Investment propertiesThe investment property portfolio is stated at its open market value of £11,773,000, at 31 December 2008 (2007:£14,725,000) as valued by professionalexternal valuers.Financial instrumentsNote 22 to the financial statements sets out the risks in respect of financialinstruments.

The Board reviews and agrees overall treasury policies, delegatingappropriate authority to the managing director. Financial instruments are usedto manage the financial risks facing the group – speculative transactions arenot permitted. Treasury operations are reported at each Board meeting and aresubject to weekly internal reporting. Derivatives have been put in place, asrequired by the group’s bankers to reduce interest rate risk.DirectorsThe directors of the company for the whole year were M A Heller, A R Heller, CA Joll, T M Kearney and J A Sibbald. R J Grobler, who is a South Africancitizen, was appointed to the board by the directors on 22 April 2008. Aproposal for his election will be made at the AGM and is recommended by theboard. The directors retiring by rotation are A R Heller, C A Joll and J ASibbald who offer themselves for re-election.

The board recommends theirre-appointment.Robert Grobler was appointed as General Mine Manager by Black Wattle Colliery(Proprietary) Limited on 1 May 2000. He was appointed to the board of BisichiMining PLC as Director of Mining on 22 April 2008. He has over 40 yearsexperience in the South African coal mining industry. He is a professionalengineer and member of the South African Coal Managers Association.Andrew Heller has been an executive director since 1998. He is a CharteredAccountant and has been employed by the group since 1994 under a contract ofemployment determinable at three months notice.Christopher Joll has been a director since 2001 and has a contract of servicedeterminable at three months notice. He holds a number of non-executivedirectorships of un-quoted companies.

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