Most efforts to prevent their spread have focused on finding new antibiotics or improving hygiene, but Bill Keevil of the University of Southampton, UK, believes that the natural antibacterial properties of copper could be a simple and effective way to combat them.
Setting sail in July 2013 from Southampton in the UK, the 70-ft yachts will visit 15 ports on all six continents.
Now, a team of researches from the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton in the UK has developed what they are calling the "Reflectance Transformation Imaging system, " which uses 76 lights to illuminate different sections of the ancient artifacts, one at a time, while an image is taken.
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In October, Ford announced that it would cut 1, 400 jobs at its Southampton and Dagenham plants in the UK, as well as closing a factory in Genk in Belgium that employed 4, 300 workers.
Ford employs about 15, 000 workers in the UK and has plants at Southampton and Dagenham, among others.
Crimestoppers' "It's a Drag" campaign in Thames Valley comes in the wake of a UK Border Force find at Southampton Container Port earlier this month.
Nomura is also believed to have made a bid for Associated British Ports which owns 23 sites in the UK including Grimsby, Hull, Southampton, Cardiff, Plymouth and Ipswich.
But the US company, based in Dearborn, Michigan, will still employ around 10, 000 people across the UK even after the doors close in Southampton next July.
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He had lived in the UK for 12 years, working on building sites around Southampton and London.
The layoffs represent nearly 7% of Ford's UK workforce of 12, 900 - with almost half of the Southampton factory's staff of 1, 100 affected.
The plan is to extend Crisis Fareshare centre to ten more locations across the UK by the millennium, and franchise operations are already currently underway in Manchester, Huddersfield, Southampton, Sheffield, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
Best Buy's 11 UK outlets are in Liverpool, Derby, Bristol, Nottingham, Rotherham, Dudley, Thurrock, Southampton, and three places in London - Croydon, Hayes and Enfield.
Spotify's own research shows Edinburgh to be the UK's top city for streaming in terms of per-capita usage, followed by Cardiff and Southampton.
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