The spike in prices has sent economic forecasters rushing to their calculators, to work out what damage more expensive energy might inflict on a still-tentative global economic recovery.

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Whoever takes over from Mr Tata is likely to focus on making the group's constituent companies work better, rather than rushing to acquire more.

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It is, but the amount of work pales to almost insignificance when compared to the alternative: rushing around like the Wicked Witch of the East, scattering signals to the wind, and wondering why houses keep dropping onto our heads.

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Mr Hopps said although the recent heavy rainfall had caused the work to fall behind by three to four weeks, workers "were still rushing to get it finished on time".

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