The eight-year programme of work announced on Thursday will involve construction of new buildings and facilities, as well as refurbishing current equipment ready to begin work on Successor.

It will have a major impact on the Barrow yard, which has been building submarines for more than a century.

Alan Dunn, operations director of BAEs submarines unit: said: This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for BAE. There has been no work on this scale at Barrow in more than 25 years and we will change the skyline and the landscape of the town."

The new funding for Barrow will allow the construction of larger missile submarines there, said Mr Hammond.

By spending the money now, the UKs submarine requirements could be delivered more efficiently and cost-effectively, as well as ushering in a new stance on defence procurement.

Frankly, in the MoD we are done with the days of letting people cut steel first and design the boats or ships, or whatever, afterwards, said Mr Hammond. If we are going to hold our contractors properly to account to deliver on time and on budget, in fairness to them, we have got to tell them exactly what it is we want before they start building it.

In the past, Im afraid there has been a tendency to build first and design later, so it makes absolute sense to get the design completed before we sign the contracts on the Successor class.

"This investment needs to be made now to allow us to build the Successor class to the programme and timetable set out.

He hailed the engineers building the Astute-class submarines recognised to be the most advanced in the world and the history of shipbuilding at Barrow.

This site has a long and illustrious history of submarine design and construction, said Mr Hammond. No one can rival the history, expertise and track record of this site in this highly specialised field and the Astute class surpasses anything that has gone before.

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Theres a sense of peace along the rolling, snowy fields south of Jefferson Sideroad.

Clumps of mature trees are atwitter with early spring songbirds, muffling the sound of traffic on Yonge Street.

But the pastoral scene is misleading. Bitterness brews beneath the bucolic landscape.

Development has chewed at the edges of this quiet enclave and the few remaining residents havent felt peace for a very long time.

We are desperate people feeling like weve been forced out of our homes, Karen Trofimchuk explains, referring to the handful of neighbours who have not sold or moved away. Weve got rabbit and deer here. It will break my heart when they start cutting down the trees.

The story of the Harris-Beech neighbourhood is a stormy and complicated one. Its also a story of Richmond Hill, a microcosm of the towns metamorphosis from sleepy suburb to mushrooming metropolis.

The final chapter may now be drawing to a close with a recent council decision to pass an infill study, but those who were embroiled in it say they wont soon forget - whether they, too, pack up and leave like their neighbours before them, or hang in and watch their community transform.

The community known as Harris-Beech is tucked into secluded tract off Jefferson Sideroad. Large lots line meandering laneways. Homes are still without town water and sewer services, surrounded by busy thoroughfares and subdivisions.

Developers have been eying the area, real estate agents knocking on doors. For the past decade, this has been a community in limbo.

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Rat-infested river bank owners accuse Bolton Council of trespassing

11:46am Friday 14th March 2014 in News By Jeremy Culley, reporter

THE owners of a rat-infested river bank besieged by fly-tippers have accused Bolton Council of trespassing on their land.

A long-running legal row between the council and 91-year-old Tom Taylor, whose Cardiff-based daughter Caroline Taylor, aged 60, owns the land, has stalled the clean-up operation.

The land, just off Croal Street, resembles a landfill site after mountains of putrid waste, bin bags, beer cans, old toys and furniture were dumped illegally.

Bolton Council is investigating the fly-tipping and hopes to make prosecutions but insists Mr Taylor is responsible for clearing up the waste.

The council uses his land to access the underside of the bridge and installed a gate into a wall in Croal Street in 2005 without informing Mr Taylor, who bought the land in 1982.

A spokesman for the council said it can use the land under section 291 of the Highways Act 1980, and that this use gives it no responsibility to clear up the waste.

Mr Taylor disputes this and claims the wording of the act which gives councils the right to access land on, over or under their own property, which the bank technically is not renders them guilty of trespass.

The council first wrote to Ms Taylor in July, 2010, and informed her of its use of the land in April 2011 .

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Publication Date : 14-03-2014

The air quality in parts of Peninsular Malaysia and Indonesia continued to deteriorate sharply yesterday as a result of open burning and land-clearing bush fires in the face of an unusual dry spell.

People in Selangor, particularly, were left choking as the Air Pollutant Index (API) soared yesterday, and Klang authorities have ordered schools to close today.

Reports said Port Klang recorded a "very unhealthy" API reading of 203 as at 1pm. Twelve other areas, including Kuala Lumpur and other major towns in Negeri Sembilan and Malacca, recorded readings of between 113 and 145.

API readings of 0-50 are considered good, moderate is from 51-100, unhealthy is 101-200, very unhealthy is 201-300 and levels exceeding 300 are dangerous.

Officials here blamed the worsening haze on open burning in Malaysia, with the director-general of the Meteorological Department, Datuk Che Gayah Ismail, disclosing that more than 600 open burning spots were recorded nationwide on Wednesday.

"Yes, the smoke and haze are still caused by us," she told the Malaysian Insider website yesterday. "If the wind direction changes now, we will be in trouble. The haze will be much, much worse if that happens." She also said the wind direction made it impossible to blame Indonesia for the unhealthy air quality in Malaysia.

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Cazenovia, NY (PRWEB) March 14, 2014

Students in Cazenovia Colleges Fashion Design and Fashion Merchandising programs will present the Colleges 41st Annual Fashion Show, "Urban Chic," on Saturday, April 26, at 6 p.m., at The Landmark Theatre in Syracuse (362 S Salina Street).

This years show headlined by guest speaker Thom Filicia, interior designer, author, television personality and chief creative officer of Thom Filicia, Inc. will portray the exhilarating styles featured in Fashion Weeks around the world. All elements including staging, music, choreography, graphic design, and photography are produced by students enrolled in Cazenovia Colleges Fashion Show Production class.

Tickets will go on sale April 1. Admission is $17 for adults, $12 for students, and free for children under 5. For more information or to order tickets, visit http://www.cazenovia.edu/fashionshow; call 315-655-7043; or email fashionshow(at)cazenovia(dot)edu. Stay connected with the show by following @CazFashionShow on Twitter and Pinterest, and visit the shows official Facebook page - Cazenovia College: Annual Student Fashion Show.

Cazenovia College, founded in 1824, is an independent, co-educational, baccalaureate college located near Syracuse, N.Y., offering baccalaureate programs in the liberal arts and professional studies. Embracing student success as its primary mission, the College comprises a diverse yet close-knit residential community that fosters intellectual, social, and ethical growth. Our experiential and co-curricular learning opportunities and dedicated team of faculty and staff provide for an individualized educational experience that balances academic and student life. Cazenovia, named one of "Americas Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report, is also a national College of Distinction. For more information, visit http://www.cazenovia.edu.

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Gunvor (Gunny) Inga-Britt Tiburzi, 93, of Pompano Beach, Fla. and a longtime resident of Ridgefield died with family members at her side on March 3.

Ms. Tiburzi was born in Stockholm, Sweden and immigrated to the United States in the 1930s. She was an accomplished artist, model, interior decorator and homemaker.

She is survived by her daughter Anita M. Tiburzi- Johnson, son Allan R. Tiburzi and daughter-in-law Karen N. Tiburzi, daughter Bonnie Tiburzi Caputo and son-in-law Bruce F. Caputo and grandchildren, Wendy C. Tiburzi Yancey, James W. Johnson, A. Anthony Caputo, B. Britt Caputo and five great-grandchildren.

Ms. Tiburzi is predeceased by August R. Tiburzi and her grandson Michael A. Tiburzi.

A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday March 22, at St. Martin Episcopal Church, 140 S.E. 28 Ave., Pompano Beach, FL. Donations may be made in her name to St. Jude Childrens Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN. 38105

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