The Aberdeen-based firm already has operations in Alberta as well as Halifax and St Johns in Eastern Canada.

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After questions, there was an announcement from government chief whip Baroness Anelay of St Johns about the Lords timetable for the coming year.

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The Labour peer accused government Chief Whip Baroness Anelay of St Johns of a "sadistic desire to keep us going".

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Baroness Anelay of St Johns, government chief whip, assured Lord Foulkes that room would be avoided.

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The city council is extending its existing three air pollution problem zones: central, St Johns Road and Great Junction Street and adding two new ones at Inverleith Row and Glasgow Road.

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