Posts Tagged ‘Aberdeen’

JOHNNY DEPP LIKES WEARING SKIRTS!

Saturday, February 27, 2010 8:37

Johnny Depp has confessed that he loved wearing a kilt while playing the role of the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’’s new movie ”Alice in Wonderland”. In the film, the hunky star portrays the Mad Hatter with a Scottish accent, and says he particularly enjoyed one scene where he got to ...

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RBS AGREES TO SELL UNIT TO ABERDEEN FOR US$135M

Friday, January 8, 2010 7:39

Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Britain’s biggest government-controlled bank, agreed to sell part of its fund management unit to Aberdeen Asset Management Plc for 84.7 million pounds ($189 million).   The sale, which includes the Investment Strategies division with 13.5 billion pounds of assets under management, is expected to complete in ...

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MERMAID MARITIME UNIT, KD MARINE JOIN FORCES TO PROVIDE SUB-SEA SERVICES IN EUROPE WITH MERMAID …

Friday, January 8, 2010 5:42

Mermaid Maritime Public Company, the offshore marine services and support company based in Thailand, says wholly-owned subsidiary Mermaid Offshore Services and KD Marine of Aberdeen have have agreed to cooperate to provide saturation, air diving, daughter craft and remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) services from the dive support vessel (DSV) Mermaid Endurer ...

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ABERDEEN SAID TO BE IN DISCUSSIONS TO ACQUIRE RBS’S FUND UNIT

Monday, January 4, 2010 12:31

Aberdeen Asset Management Plc, Scotland’s largest money manager, is in talks to acquire Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s fund management division, said two people familiar with the discussions. Aberdeen may buy the unit for as much as 100 million pounds ($227 million) as soon as this month, said ...

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NIRVANA: BLEACH: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION/LIVE AT READING

Thursday, November 26, 2009 0:26

By: Ron Hart It's too easy to become jaded with Nirvana, especially if you went to high school or college during the short period they ruled the world in the early 1990s. The rampant manufacturing of ...

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LIVE – THE OPEN

Sunday, July 19, 2009 15:30

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UK CONDUCTOR DIES AT DIGNITAS CLINIC

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:20

Renowned British conductor Sir Edward Thomas Downes, CBE, has died at the age of 85, after travelling to right-to-die clinic Dignitas with his wife.He and his wife Joan, 74, both chose to end their lives at ...

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AIRPORT PASSENGER NUMBERS FALL 5.9%

Friday, July 10, 2009 12:30

• 12.7m passengers pass through company's seven airports• Lowest figure for nine months• Edinburgh bucks the trendThe number of travellers using major UK airports declined to its lowest level for nine months in June, BAA said today.The airport operator said a total ...

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