About 70 staff were kept on over Christmas to cope with extra demand and some are expected to remain on-site until March working in the plant's cold store and transport department.

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Late on hot afternoons he would pull up and invite tired store managers to sit in the van and relax with a cold soda.

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Hundreds of cold and tired but excited customers were lined up outside the Apple store on London's Regent Street Friday morning.

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The store employees pulled all the remaining juices from the cold case and destroyed them, he said.

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When demand shot up in the cold weather, firms could not import enough gas and had almost nowhere to store it anyway.

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Darker-fleshed fish that swim in cold, open waters, such as tuna, herring, and mackerel, store fat in their flesh and are high in omega-3s.

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Although Preuss got lucky and immediately entered the toasty store, others across the country were willing to wait in the freezing cold just to get merchandise.

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