The essence of the Corthay aesthetic, he tells me, is sturdy English construction with a slimmed-down Italian profile.

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Richard Leafe, of English Nature, said it objected to the impact the terminal construction scheme was likely to have.

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In plain English, this means that any investments in pump-priming infrastructure projects, including capital construction schemes, had to be funded by savings in government spending as a whole.

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