41.   The decision to resume lending had been announced in early October.

42.   Israel had announced in October that it would attend the Ottawa talks, thereby ending its boycott of the multilateral refugee negotiations.

43.   Hamas announced in mid-November that it had entered into a formal alliance with Iran which had promised to provide financial and political backing for the war to liberate Palestine.

44.   The results will be announced in BNFL News June edition.

45.   The government has therefore decided, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in his budget statement, to promote early legislation to introduce a land hoarding charge.

46.   The measures form part of a new package of environmental laws announced in the run-up to the UNCED summit in Rio de Janeiro.

47.   The winners are expected to be announced in October and the trials are likely to start in the new year.

48.   This modest increase, coupled with transitional arrangements announced in the budget, will be of considerable benefit to business.

49.   But the plan, announced in a stormy Commons, has opponents on both sides of the house.

50.   Meanwhile, hundreds more job losses have been announced in an area which has already suffered heavily from the recession.