All Media Scotland reports that on Wednesday, it was announced that some 90 editorial posts at the papers have been earmarked for redundancy, over a third of the total.

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If I can't find work somewhere else, I will see if redundancy can tide me over to retirement.

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EC2 and EBS, as part of the Amazon Web Services suite, are designed with substantial amounts of redundancy and fail-over capability.

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The tech community is split over AWS's troubles: Some commentators blame customers for failing to build more redundancy into their cloud products by spreading service over multiple data centers or regions.

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Vauxhall was good with the packages, the over-50s could take their pension in full, and the redundancy pay-outs were generous.

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Hundreds of workers took voluntary redundancy or early retirement, while thousands more were made redundant over the years.

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The prime minister, who took over a faltering alliance that has ruled Malaysia since independence, evidently isn't keen on a redundancy when voters get another shot in parliamentary elections in 2012 or 2013.

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