Both supermarkets had to be handed over empty of stock, so many items that were not sold were donated to charities.
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Liberal Democrat universities spokesman Stephen Williams said the government's target to get half of young people into university was proving to be "empty rhetoric" and that record numbers of bright young people would be turned away this summer.
Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood urged the Welsh Government to publish targets for the number of empty homes to be brought back into use each year, a recommendation which was supported by Liberal Democrat Leader Kirsty Williams AM.
Some of the few liberal-minded priests in the church fear these trends will lead to an established church of beautiful but empty symbolism to the detriment of other things the church should be doing, such as charity and education.
Both agree that geology is a strong card: there is thought to be enough space to store billions of tonnes of carbon in empty oil and gas fields alone, and far more in subterranean salt caverns.
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Responsible people don't like to be in the position of making empty threats like that.
The retail tracker said this could be connected to the abolition of empty property rates relief.
But it would be nice to fewer television images of empty seats in the two ballparks as the Nats and Orioles vault upward.
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While the center of Erfurt is still picturesque and remains a big draw for tourists, some big block buildings on the city's outskirts that used to be residential apartments now sit empty, many of them boarded up.
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Owners of empty homes in a Kent town could be forced to sell their properties as part of a council scheme to ease a housing shortage in the area.
Walking to their conference rooms, they take me through large swaths of empty spaces of uninhabited floors where cubes once filled with busy people used to be.
But the half-empty marina has turned out to be a bit of a nightmare for Stockton.
If everyone uses their new planes to expand capacity, rather than to replace clunkers, there could be a lot of empty seats.
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They have, in essence, treated these articles as empty vessels to be filled with some witches brew of charges considered, charges considered and abandoned, and charges never considered at all.
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There near its base are partially finished homes built by the government, all of them empty and never likely to be filled.
Turner says it's hard enough for scientists to understand how the supposedly empty vacuum of space can be suffused with some form of cosmic energy.
To be fair, much of the ample CPU tower was empty, earmarked for extra features power users might add, such as CD writers and Zip drives.
In particular, only 14% of seats on average are expected to be empty on US flights over the next few weeks, so if you do find yourself stranded, it may be even harder than usual to get re-booked on a new flight.
Although airport hotels have offered this service for transiting passengers for more than a decade, it is only in the last few years that city hotels have jumped on the idea, hoping to maximise the use of rooms that would otherwise be sitting empty.
They often prove to be empty promises and boats rarely have insurance for them in case of accidents.
There were no reports of injuries in the fire, and many of the 240 cylinders involved were believed to be empty.
Meanwhile, more than one in 10 dwellings in the eastern German cities of Chemnitz, Leipzig and Halle were found to be empty.
They are kind of small and bigger buttons seems like it would be easier to use along with taking up more of all that empty landscape.
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At present, discounts on second homes and empty properties range from 10% to 50% and can be worth hundreds of pounds a year.
Once under way, television footage of rows of empty seats at venues long assumed by home fans to be sold out had threatened to become a defining narrative that distracted from the events themselves.
Some types of empty canisters are allowed, so skiers may be able to travel with their canisters and then refill them at dedicated stations.
But to visit Bend now is to be in the eye of housing hurricane, with nearly deserted housing tracts, woefully empty hotels and residential second-home developments.
And rather than pay benefits out of a pot of past contributions, notional accounts remain empty, leaving pensions to be financed from current taxes, sometimes supplemented by a central trust fund.
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Mr Lewis added that while council tax was not part of his portfolio, discussions were ongoing as to how empty properties could be brought back to use.
After 13 years of raising four boys together, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier are about to be empty nesters.
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