Virgin Mobile, the smallest of the UK's five main mobile phone operators, had 22% growth subscriber numbers in the final three months of last year, impressing analysts at a time when growth opportunities were thought to be slender for mobile operators.

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The main British package-holiday operators have already stopped flying customers to Mexico.

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Currently their main obstacle is the unwillingness of cable operators to put a network of interest to only a fraction of their viewers on a tier available to a broad number of their subscribers.

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Herefordshire Council said its main focus was still on trying to agree a deal on the lease with the current operators and that a meeting had been arranged with Northern Racing for September.

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