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Speaker 1: Gal Downey joins us now from the UK. How are go? Hello,

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Speaker 1: Hi there, You've got a pretty bad storm hitting you.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, it's life threatening storm. It's red warnings which

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Speaker 2: are the most serious, and it's hitting the UK with

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Speaker 2: millions of people being urged stay at home. The hardest

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Speaker 2: hit places are going to be Northern Ireland and parts

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Speaker 2: of Scotland. And as I say, it's red warnings that

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Speaker 2: have been issued, which means a danger to life from

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Speaker 2: winds gusting up to one hundred miles an hour, So

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Speaker 2: schools in Northern Ireland are going to be closed, bus

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Speaker 2: services canceled, Belfast International Airport is warning of significant disruption,

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Speaker 2: and the supermarket Tesco has said it's closing its stores

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Speaker 2: today and all home deliveries will be canceled. The Irish,

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Speaker 2: in the Irish Republic, they are expected to have what's

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Speaker 2: going to be the worst storm of the century, so

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Speaker 2: all ferry operators across the Irish Sea have been canceled

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Speaker 2: and obviously Dublin Airport has been affected as well well.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now, speaking of supermarkets, Sainsbury's is cutting three thousand jobs.

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Speaker 1: So what's the story then.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's cutting the jobs. Is also closing its cafes,

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Speaker 2: petisseries and pizza counters. And what it's saying is, look, look,

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Speaker 2: we want to simply find the business. We're going to

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Speaker 2: make a twenty percent reduction in senior management roles with

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Speaker 2: the job losses as well as the closure of the

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Speaker 2: cafes and say cafes, per tisseries and pizza counter because

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Speaker 2: of a particularly challenging cost environment. Now this is a

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Speaker 2: second batch of job losses at Sainsbury's. Last year it

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Speaker 2: announced fifteen hundred jobs will go It recently, however, announced

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Speaker 2: annual profits expected to be in excess of one billion pounds.

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Speaker 2: Unions say the business should be ashamed for cutting jobs

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Speaker 2: while making millions of pounds in profits, and industry experts

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Speaker 2: believe this will be the first of many cuts as

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Speaker 2: retailers deal with increase costs as a result of tax increases.

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Speaker 1: It's hard times. It's hard times all over the world,

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Speaker 1: and we have similar complaints about our supermarkets here. But

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Speaker 1: when you're talking about margins, and when you're talking about

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Speaker 1: costs as large as supermarket operators that a million pounds

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Speaker 1: or nothing, really it's not actually a huge profit at all.

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Speaker 1: So you need to really get through I get that.

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Speaker 1: Let's do some real estate news because Adele, the singer

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Speaker 1: who's you know, earned a bit of a slowdown right

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Speaker 1: now having done some incredible concerts. But Adele has been

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Speaker 1: accused of sabotaging the sale of a house.

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Speaker 2: How now, this all has come about in a planning

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Speaker 2: application put forward to the local council by the owner

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Speaker 2: of the property. So she rented this property for about

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Speaker 2: six months and while she was there, she did an

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Speaker 2: interview on TV This is back in twenty twelve, and

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Speaker 2: in the interview she said, actually the property is a

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Speaker 2: bit scary. Really, it's all quite scary. I'm not rattling

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Speaker 2: around here on my own. It gives me the creeps,

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Speaker 2: is what she said about it. So in the submission

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Speaker 2: to the planning authority, the owner wants to convert it

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Speaker 2: into instead of just one big mansion, wants to convert

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Speaker 2: it into three units and a separate cottage. And he

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Speaker 2: says the reason is is because the comment by Adele

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Speaker 2: negatively impacted future marketing efforts and continues to affect the

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Speaker 2: property's reputation to this day. He said, after fourteen years,

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Speaker 2: he's only ever had one prospective buyer who pulled out

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Speaker 2: after hearing about its haunted status, although she never actually

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Speaker 2: used the word haunted.

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Speaker 1: No, no, anyfect. There are some people. I don't know

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Speaker 1: this because you like the Gothic in England, and there'll

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Speaker 1: be some people who go, woar a house that haunted, Adele,

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Speaker 1: I want a piece of.

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Speaker 2: Head you think it put the price?

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Speaker 1: It could be, It could be all right, And I

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. And that is Gale down here,

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Speaker 1: who is reporting out of the UK.

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