But now the BBC has been told by senior sources within the MoD that officials in the department intend to renege on the project.
Senior sources have told me he gave the ECB his notice - a period of 12 months - before the World Cup game against Bangladesh on 11 April, with the intention of serving out that period.
Senior Tory sources now say that some of this money ended up in the coffers of the Conservative Party.
Critics suggest that close relations between the tabloids and senior police sources made the latter reluctant to delve deeper.
From my conversations with senior Barclays sources, I have learned there is a favoured candidate for each of its top vacancies.
White House and senior congressional sources said the Norwood-Bolten meetings made substantial progress toward a deal, but no final agreements had been reached.
Dr Gudgin told the Scottish Parliament committee that he had been briefed by senior Whitehall sources that the power would not be handed to Holyrood.
"Senior Fifa sources have confirmed to us that the status quo remains and the FAI may continue to select players born in Northern Ireland, " said the FAI.
They are adding an elected leadership position for an incoming freshman lawmaker and several senior GOP sources say they hope South Dakota's Kristi Noem, who is interested, wins the slot.
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Her decision has yet to be ratified by the party's ruling National Executive Committee, but senior party sources have made it clear there is no way back to the Labour fold for the left-winger.
Senior security sources have told the BBC that they were "very definite" the IRA was involved in the shooting of Ed McCoy in a bar on 28 May, despite being on an official ceasefire.
Zell Miller, a Democratic senator from Georgia and a frequent critic of his own party, will speak at the Republican National Convention, according to senior Democratic Senate sources.
Indeed, according to diplomatic sources, senior Kazaks had quietly assured the Americans that U.S. companies would win the day.
Senior Bush and Kerry sources said one of the last things the campaigns were negotiating was how the candidates would get their cues.
He cited two senior administration officials as his sources.
Controlling such perks is one of the few remaining sources of leverage that senior Republicans have over junior members.
Senior U.S. government sources told CNN last week evidence suggested al Qaeda's operations chief was in Iran and may have played a role in planning the Saudi attacks.
Benedict received a 300-page report in December detailing the possible blackmail, la Repubblica newspaper and the Panorama news weekly reported, citing an unidentified senior Vatican official and dozens of unnamed sources.
Sources close to the investigation say senior officials are weighing proposed grand jury indictments against as few as two to as many as six guards on criminal charges to be determined.
After my over-50 piece appeared online, I got a note from one of my most thoughtful, articulate sources, Orville Pierson, a senior vice president at outplacement firm Lee, Hecht Harrison and author of Highly Effective Networking: Meet the Right People and Get a Great Job.
One very senior figure on the Commission argued hard, my sources say, for the idea to be scrapped entirely.
Other senior managers in Germany support his position, say company sources.
According to sources, Deputy Assistant Attorney Scott Hammond, the senior staff lawyer who has run the criminal enforcement team for a more than a decade, vehemently protested the move which is now being finalized.
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And sources close to the conversations have made it clear that senior ministers believe the banks have to live up to their responsibilities.
He quotes sources as saying that Interior Minister Bismullah Khan was having a meeting with senior Western officials elsewhere in the building when the shooting took place.
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo says Japanese media have cited anonymous sources as saying that Mr Aratani had been on a rare visit to the plant to meet senior executives from partner companies.
While many senior officers are anxious to make more money in the private sector after a lifetime of military pay, sources said Franks' decision was less about money than a lack of enthusiasm for the internecine battles in the Pentagon bureaucracy.
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