It is expected to take several days to establish whether or not the deadly fungus has been stopped from spreading into the wider environment and native woodlands.

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Forestry Commission (FC) Wales said the affected trees were small and "measures have been put in place to minimise the risk of the disease spreading to the wider environment".

BBC: Ash tree

Peel said the closure had been "a purely precautionary measure to prevent passing vessels spreading the oil into a wider area than that already affected".

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At the same time, a significant share of consumer spending will shift from fuel to a wider range of goods and services, spreading shared benefits across the economy.

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Family offices serving the Whittier, Phipps and Pitcairn fortunes have started managing fortunes for other families, thus spreading the costs over a wider base and giving the offices greater investment clout.

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Processor loyalties could be split across the wider group, though: ASUS is said to be spreading the love by showing both an Intel-based tablet as well as one using NVIDIA's ARM-powered Tegra line, but Acer's previously rumored tablet is poised to go the Intel-only route, and Toshiba's may exist solely in a TI OMAP-based ARM camp.

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It begins with isolated cases of experimentation within the organization which develops into wider cross-organization social business projects with the eventual possibility of spreading across the extended enterprise relationships with partners, customers and other constituencies.

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