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Authorities will be penalised financially if they spend over the odds.
In other words, would it apply only if they were going to pay over the odds, as it were?
The report concluded that consumers were not paying over the odds for their petrol in that part of the country.
Much of the wage pressure that is building up is because employers have to pay over the odds.
That was over the odds because another £110,000 should have been paid later.
There have been many cases of election petitions when people have spent 2½p over the odds.
If they choose to pay over the odds, that will come out of shareholders' funds.
We had employers from other factories ringing up to ask whether we were paying over the odds.
