Although his factory is still not making a profit, the local partner wants to receive dividends because the study envisaged that the factory would be making money by then.

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He told the court Mr Nowak had become upset when Miss Wells-Burr had a heated telephone conversation with her mother, something that prompted the factory worker to believe his partner was going to leave him.

BBC: Catherine Wells-Burr

Nissan has said that it is considering building the new Micra at its Barcelona factory or a plant of its French partner Renault because of the UK Government's failure to set out a timetable for joining the euro.

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