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	<title>Nick Beaumont-Jones</title>
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		<title>St Clare&#8217;s College</title>
		<description><![CDATA[St. Clare’s is an international residential college which specialises in teaching the International Baccalaureate Diploma in Oxford. It also has a separate English language school and, at the Bardwell Centre, offers a University Foundation Course and Study Abroad options for US students. In 2010 St. Clare’s was ranked 1st in the Oxfordshire league tables for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://auditelconsultants.co.uk/nickbeaumontjones/2011/07/14/st-clares-college/</link>
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		<title>Soon u&#8217;ll b able to pay by txt 2!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[O2, Britain&#8217;s largest single mobile phone operator, is applying for a financial services licence to allow its customers to text each other money. The move means that O2 has become the first UK mobile operator to prepare an application for the new e-money licence. Matthew Key, chief executive of Telefonica Europe, the Spanish owner of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://auditelconsultants.co.uk/nickbeaumontjones/2011/02/18/soon-ull-b-able-to-pay-by-txt-2/</link>
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		<title>BT profits soar as broadband business takes off &#8211; but it takes 7 weeks to get a telephone line installed!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BBC News reports that BT has said that it attracted 53% of all new broadband customers to its services in the last three months of 2010, the highest since 2003. Its broadband TV service, BT Vision, won 40,000 new customers, compared with 24,000 in the previous three months. The numbers were released with BT&#8217;s third-quarter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://auditelconsultants.co.uk/nickbeaumontjones/2011/02/04/bt-profits-soar-as-broadband-business-takes-off-but-it-takes-7-weeks-to-get-a-telephone-line-installed/</link>
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		<title>New plug will save you £1 a day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new energy saving product has been tested on the UK market in the hope that it can help consumers reduce the energy use of their home appliances. Researchers at Imperial College have conducted trials into a new green plug, which can cut the energy consumption of consumer electronics by 41 per cent on average. For IT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://auditelconsultants.co.uk/nickbeaumontjones/2011/01/26/new-plug-will-save-you-1-a-day/</link>
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		<title>Is this energy solution really as good as it seems?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shale gas has been hailed as the solution to declining world energy resources with enough reserves to last into the next century. Shale gas has become an energy phenomenon since firms in the US found economic ways of extracting gas previously trapped in shale rocks, which have metamorphosed from clay deposits under pressure and heat. The process [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://auditelconsultants.co.uk/nickbeaumontjones/2011/01/17/is-this-energy-solution-really-as-good-as-it-seems/</link>
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		<title>Power used by mobile chargers left plugged into the wall equals the output of a large power plant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, chip manufacturer Freescale announced the availability in the USA of Watt Saver, a system that eliminates the &#8220;vampire&#8221; power draw of wall chargers for mobile phones and other small electronics. Even when wall chargers are no longer plugged into phones, the chargers still draw a small trickle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://auditelconsultants.co.uk/nickbeaumontjones/2011/01/10/power-used-by-mobile-chargers-left-plugged-into-the-wall-equals-the-output-of-a-large-power-plant/</link>
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		<title>The future for used Christmas trees?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Twelfth Night approaches many of us will be taking down our Christmas decorations very soon. So this piece from the latest issue of Utility Week couldn&#8217;t be more timely: Major power firms including Eon, RWE, Alstom and Drax are working on a project which could eventually turn Christmas trees into more viable biomass. The research, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://auditelconsultants.co.uk/nickbeaumontjones/2011/01/05/the-future-for-used-christmas-trees/</link>
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		<title>Are you spending much more than you think on those 08 calls?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of my clients were unaware of how much they were spending on supposed low cost calls to numbers starting with 084. One large client spends 50% of all their call charges on NGNs (non-geographic numbers). Far from being a cheap way to make calls, many can cost more than 11p per minute from a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://auditelconsultants.co.uk/nickbeaumontjones/2010/12/20/are-you-spending-much-more-than-you-think-on-those-08-calls/</link>
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		<title>How does your energy supplier stack up for customer service?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumer Focus has today launched a new league table to help consumers decide which energy supplier will give them the fewest problems or best handle any problems that arise. The new rankings are based on the most comprehensive energy complaints data available and will be published every quarter. The performance guide, which is based on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://auditelconsultants.co.uk/nickbeaumontjones/2010/12/10/how-does-your-energy-supplier-stack-up-for-customer-service-2/</link>
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		<title>Some nerdy facts about communications in the UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ofcom have released some interesting stats about how we use communications in the UK: Telecommunications revenue in the UK is dropping &#8211; 3.1% between 2008 and 2009, in line with the rest of the world. This is due to a number of factors, not least of which is the move from fixed line to mobile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://auditelconsultants.co.uk/nickbeaumontjones/2010/12/03/some-nerdy-facts-about-communications-in-the-uk/</link>
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