After growing up in the 1960s in Charles City, Iowa, a rural county seat known for its tornadoes and tractor factory (now a vacant site), brothers Charley and Pete Thomson were happy to move on.

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In September it was confirmed some of vacant Deeside site will be used for an enterprise zone, creating 5, 000 jobs.

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It doesn't cost anything to place an ad, update or remove it from the Web site, unless you're advertising a situation vacant, which is how the site generates revenue.

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The quay will be built on the site of a former Shell oil refinery on the South bank of the Tees, which has been lying vacant for around 20 years.

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