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Short news clip of Ted Hughes' poetry collection Birthday Letters winning the 1999 Whitbread award for poetry. The award is accepted by Frieda Hughes, the daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Frieda's physical resemblance to Sylvia is uncanny, and her voice has the same deep, rich quality as Sylvia's.
Whitbread: 39.9 Million Pounds profit in first half, oppurtunity for Costa Brand to grow, anticipates challenging conditions, U.K.'s largest hotel & restaurant Co, owns Premier Inn Hotels, controls Costa Coffee shops; Analysis by Christopher Rogers, Whitb
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You might be forgiven that Whitbread is all about dingy pubs, sticky carpets and brown foamy beer. But you'd be wrong. No, Whitbread these days is catering for different tastes - hotels, restaurants and there's more to come...
Whitbread cuts capital spending to 200 million pounds from 300 million pounds in 2010; Whitbread 39-week like-for-like sales up 6.7%; Report and analysis by Angeline Ong of Bloomberg News