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And it is planning to run further recruitment events over the next few weeks in England's financial heartlands in London and Birmingham.

But when he heard that factories were closing, and migrant workers returning from the manufacturing heartlands to family farms, he grimaced.

and the spread of the "Pakistani Taliban" out of the border tribal areas into the heartlands.

Both parties' heartlands are largely to be found in prosperous suburbs and the countryside.

In other parts of the country, especially in the Kikuyu heartlands, Mr Kibaki's backers have treated Luos with similar harshness.

Should he win the nomination, his chances in the general election would depend very much on whether he could speak to America's heartlands.

Zaydis make up a third of Yemen's 30m people, and for centuries formed the ruling elite in its mountain heartlands.

These are not just theoretical conundrums; they play themselves out on the gritty streets of Labour's heartlands.

Now capitalism is in a funk in its heartlands.

But if the decision further opens up America's living rooms to gambling, a backlash from the heartlands looks a pretty safe bet.

For foreign majors like Royal Dutch Shell PLC and BP PLC, their former heartlands in the Gulf sands are now largely off-limits.

A journey through the Boxers' heartlands shows that many Chinese share these worries.

The Chinese economy is in trouble, with growth slowing and exports falling and social unrest in the industrial heartlands of southern China.

The impact is not only felt in the dry north, but in the manufacturing heartlands along the coast.

Social unrest in China's industrial heartlands will cause real alarm in the governing circles in Beijing.

The strike marked an important development in the traditional mining heartlands, which feminist ideas had not previously reached

A gas revolution in Australia's heartlands creates divisions

In Islam's heartlands a covered head has more than one connotation