John Lewis Partnership’s 70,000 staff are this week expected to receive around 14pc of their annual salary as a bonus as the retailer reveals strong full-year profit figures.

The retail group – which owns the Waitrose supermarket and the John Lewis department store chains – is expected to say that pre-tax profit over the year to January 31 was £315m compared with £280m a year ago.

The increase in profits, which came about after a surge over the second half of 2009 following a poor first-half performance, will be enough to guarantee the large pay-out, which is equivalent to almost eight weeks’ pay.

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“The penalty for creating awareness (misleading the public) about the ill effects of Genetically Modified issues may lead to an imprisonment of minimum six months and upto one year with a maximum fine of Rs.2 lakhs,” he said. “The clauses of this bill are draconian and more stringent than even the repealed acts like POTA, TADA.”

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Estonia’s top hotel The Three Sisters Earns a Michelin star

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Scottish cuisine is not all deep fried mars bars and donner kebabs, however the serious lack of  top quality restaurants in Glasgow is now very apparent as not a single star has been handed out to any Glasgow establishments. This  means that Glasgow is the ONLY major city in the UK not to have a [...]

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This morning I woke feeling as if I could eat a small country, so as I have been staying in the New York New York hotel the first place I hit this morning was the chin chin buffet, this slam buffet area, usually serving Chinese fayre had a full breakfast offering on from 7am till [...]

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Rubys burger joint in terminal D of McCarran International airport looks the real deal. Offering authentic thick burgers set in retro burger joint ambiance. While the prices are by no means cheap I decided that this was a better value offering than spending $10 on rock hard sandwich on the delta flight back to JFK.
I [...]

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After scouring the net to find regular priced great eats in Las Vegas, the single most noted buffet in town was the Paris Las Vegas buffet.
I am a bit of a old hand when it comes to Las Vegas buffets and have sampled several exceptional buffets in Las Vegas on my last 2 trips [...]

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A top French restaurant in Belfast has apologised after a rodent was spotted running amok on the premises.
Bastille, on the Lisburn Road, opened its doors to the public two months ago and has received rave reviews from critics.
But a complaint was lodged with Belfast City Council’s public health department yesterday after a group of diners [...]

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Almost nine out of 10 pints of beer are being sold ’short’, drinkers have been warned.

Most pints fail to measure up, say trading standards officers

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Woman launches legal action against a (NYC) New York City restaurant – after a 150lb moose head fell on her.
A female diner in a NYC restaurant claims in a lawsuit filed last week that a moose head, with 3-foot-wide antlers, Fell off a wall at the White Slab Palace restaurant on October 4 and [...]

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