The dramatic fall in output is a major blow to Chancellor George Osborne, whose drive for austerity is expected to slow down growth over the coming months.
McDonald's select their Olympic Champion Crew to work in their Olympic Park restaurants at London 2012. (Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)
Two thousand staff will serve an anticipated three million customers at the branch, which is half the length of an American football field and built of recyclable materials.
Christopher Tappin, 65, from southeast London, will be released from Otero Prison in the New Mexico desert later this week after District Judge David Briones overturned Monday an earlier decision denying him bail due to flight risk.
Earlier this month Sky News admitted hacking into the accounts of John Darwin, the “canoe man” accused of faking his own death in 2002, Darwin’s wife Anne, as well as the account of a suspected paedophile.
Speculation about the release of oil stocks helped push the cost of benchmark Brent crude down on Wednesday, with prices dropping 1.3 percent to $123.93 in afternoon trading in London.
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