Richard Milne

Not all favor extension of trail to Honeoye Falls

MENDON — A new draft feasibility study recommending a multi-use trail connecting Honeoye Falls with the main line of the Lehigh Valley Trail is being met with excitement by area residents but also some opposition. The town of...

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European companies eye emerging market growth (at FT.com)

Companies in Europe are setting increasingly ambitious growth targets for emerging markets, with three of the continent's biggest names aiming to source half of their revenues from them within six years.

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Business chiefs upbeat on European economy

By Richard Milne, European Business Correspondent Growth in Europe is likely to be anaemic in the short-term but the longer-term prospects for business are still healthy, according to some of the continent’s leading chief...

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Recalls echo round globe in social network era (at FT.com)

David Miliband, Britain's foreign secretary and the father of two small boys, sent out an unusual message on Twitter, the social networking service, this week, amid comments on the situation in Zimbabwe, and thoughts on the...

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EU businesses wary about recovery

European industrialists were shocked by the severity of the downturn so they are wary of relying too much on a strong recovery. Dirk Schumacher, an economist at Goldman Sachs, forecasts a 0.5 per cent rise in third-quarter...

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Left to sift through GM's wreckage (at FT.com)

Al Koch has an unenviable job. As chief executive of Motors Liquidation Company, the "bad" part of General Motors that remains under Chapter 11 protection, he must determine the fate of 200 properties and more than half a...

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Germany and Russia furious at Opel blow

By Richard Milne and Daniel Schäfer Germany and Russia reacted furiously to also led to a schism among the carmaker’s workers, with UK employees celebrating while Germans said they would start warning strikes on Thursday....

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Germany and Russia hit at GM over Opel

By Richard Milne in London and Daniel Schäfer in Munich General Motors’ decision to keep Opel drew scorn from Germany and Russia on Tuesday as German unions announced a series of warning strikes in protest at the carmaker’s...

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World Pneumonia Day 2 November 2009

Despite being an industrialised country, New Zealand has worse rates of pneumonia amongst children than other OECD countries. Dr Cameron Grant, pneumonia expert and Associate Professor in Paediatrics at Starship Children’s...

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Tensions brew as Euro disparities appear

By Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt and Richard Milne in London A stronger euro is adding to the tensions in Europe’s 11-year-old monetary union, with the greater vulnerability of some countries and their industrial sectors...

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