The new set-up would be a professional catering kitchen and designed so dirty dishes came in to be stacked, washed and dried, and then moved round to the preparation area where meals were made and served, he added.

BBC: Existing kitchen at Crawley Open House

For the next month, Piccard and Borschberg will perform test flights around the Bay Area in preparation, and the plan is for the journey to start on May 1st, with an estimated arrival in Gotham sometime in early July.

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The RPS said: "We would be very concerned if a patient took a homeopathic preparation to travel to an area where there may be yellow fever, typhoid, malaria, believing they were safe when in fact they wouldn't be safe".

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An area of the Ridgeway was fenced off on Wednesday in preparation for the 50, 000 sq-m excavation of the area.

BBC: Relief road land buying approved

Burma's prime concern is the preparation for entry into the ASEAN Free Trade Area (Afta) and ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), as well as wanting to take its turn as ASEAN's chair in 2014.

BBC: Viewpoint: Change in Burma - one step at a time

Another area for which small businesses have not prepared as well as larger companies is in the preparation of alternatives for the supply chain and disruption of goods.

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