Nick Brown

Indonesian Operator Selects Aircom for Network Expansion Support

­Network planning consultancy, Aircom International says that it has been selected by Indonesia’s AXIS, to support the operator’s drive for increased penetration across the country. AXIS is the country’s newest network...

AIRCOM Signs Up to GTEL- Mobile Launch in Vietnam

18 November 2008, Leatherhead, UK; Mobile Asia Congress, Macau; Moscow, Russia - GTEL- Mobile, Vietnam’s newest GSM operator, backed by Russia’s VimpelCom, has signed a deal with independent network planning and optimisation...

North tipped to ride economic wave

THE North East will be the only English region not to go into recession next year, according to reports from two groups of financial experts. Analysts at Oxford Economics have estimated that 17,000 workers will be made...

Economic experts heading for region

Nov 17 2008 by Adrian Pearson, The Journal ECONOMIC experts from the three main political parties are heading to the North East to discuss the region’s success. Shadow chancellor George Osborne and Liberal Democrat Treasury...

Blazes rip through Southern California

LOS ANGELES – Southern Californians endured a third day of destruction yesterday as wind-blasted wildfires torched hundreds of mobile homes and mansions, forced tens of thousands of people to flee and shut down major freeways.

Speaker fights Harman plan for big increase in gay MPs

Controversial Government backed plans for a massive increase in the number of gay MPs are being opposed by Commons Speaker Michael Martin, it was revealed last night. Ministers are likely to support a demand by gay-rights...

Chief Whip Nick Brown leads revolt over PM’s business tax

Labour Chief Whip Nick Brown is spearheading an open revolt within the party against the Prime Minister over a ‘destructive’ tax on recession-hit British businesses. He joined dozens of Tory and Labour MPs in attacking Gordon...

Gordon Brown boosted by ‘war room’ and whipping up MPs

Philip Webster and Francis Elliott Two military-style operations – one in the Commons and the other in Downing Street – have helped the recent revival of Gordon Brown, The Times can reveal. Most observers have put Mr Brown’s...

UA hosts sustainability contest for campus

Students who want their "go green" ideas heard now have an on-campus opportunity to do so - student teams can win up to $15,000 in prizes from the Students First Sustainability Competition for submitting the winning plan in the...

Harriet Harman takes one step forward while Nick Brown takes one step back

One step forward, two steps back, all within 24 hours? Today my tireless Westminster colleague Patrick Wintour reports that the government is setting up a nowadays-rare Speaker's Conference on how to make the representative...

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