Business visits to Britain plummeted 25% in the first half of 2009 but visits by foreign tourists rose by some 200,000 (see chart), or 4%.
"People who are paying taxes, working very hard, have hardly seen any increases in their salary and yet, under the last government, the welfare bill rose by some 60%too £200bn.
It is a cautionary tale and not just for Vestas.Pushed by fears of global warming and by rising energy prices, wind power is on a roll: worldwide, installed capacity rose by some 8,000MW last year, to nearly 48,000MW, one-third of that in Germany.
OPEC's production rose by some 6% in February, its biggest monthly increase in four years.As a result, many oil analysts think that the cartel can now offset a disruption of only 2.5m barrels a day or less half the cushion it had a decade ago.
The IPCC reported that the global average sea level rose by some 19 21 cm (7.5 8.3 inches) between 1901 and 2010 and that sea levels rose faster in the second half of the 20th century than in the first half.
Chris Tarry, an airlines analyst at Commerzbank, notes that the last time BA stole a lead by introducing its original Club World cabin in the mid-1980s, business fares across the Atlantic rose by some 25%, and were responsible for the airline's success in the rest of the 1980s.
