MFI, Britain's biggest bathroom and kitchen retailer, is to create 1,500 jobs as part of a three-year, £100m programme of new store openings and refurbishments.
"Aldi and Lidl have each had a rapid programme of new store openings matched with huge advertising and marketing spend to keep themselves front and centre in consumers' minds.
Labour had proposed a massive central database known as the interception modernisation programme to store the details of phone calls, text messages, emails and internet use.
The UN's senior counter-terrorism official is to launch an investigation into the surveillance powers of American and British intelligence agencies following Edward Snowden's revelations that they are using secret programmes to store and analyse billions of emails, phone calls and text messages.
The massive programme of surveillance allows the agency to store vast volumes of information for up to 30 days which it can then study for evidence of terrorist and criminal activity.
Medium-sized supermarket chains are also being squeezed, with Kwik Save currently half-way through a programme of shutting 107 of its 1,000 stores and Somerfield planning to close up to 40 of its 424 outlets.Perhaps the most dramatic fate awaits Littlewoods, a 135-strong chain of department stores.
The programme of research including studies on archival and stored materials was approved by The East London and City Health Authority Research Ethics Committee and by the Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Department of Paediatric Oncology, Haematology and Transplantology, Ethics Committee.
Members of the Children's Parliament of Uzbekistan supported the programme, visiting stores where bread is sold, informing shopkeepers of fortified flour's benefits, distributing leaflets, posters and stickers, talking to members of the public and writing articles for the press.
The engineer, who worked on Nasa's space shuttle programme, had stored binders full of information about US military aircraft in his home, collecting data that he passed on to China over three decades.
