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  • Shares in Whitbread rose 3p to £16.96 this morning.

    Cost-conscious travellers boost Premier Inn owner Whitbread Julia Kollewe 2010

  • I'm not sure where the Commonwealth label comes from because the Whitbread is only open to authors resident in the UK for at least six months, and whose book was first published in the UK too.

    Tash Takes the Prize! Sharon Bakar 2006

  • Meanwhile the winner of the Costa Prize formerly known as the Whitbread which is awarded to books by writers based in the United Kingdom will be awarded tonight.

    Peckham murder blues, avoiding jangrover rides, Costa Book awards & EFCC wahala uknaija 2007

  • Meanwhile the winner of the Costa Prize formerly known as the Whitbread which is awarded to books by writers based in the United Kingdom will be awarded tonight.

    Archive 2007-02-01 uknaija 2007

  • Established by Whitbread Plc in 1971 and known as the Whitbread Awards, they were rebranded the Costa Awards in 2006.

    Current and Previous winners of the Costa Book Awards 2010

  • The race, once called the Whitbread, is part traveling trade show and part extreme sporting event, which can lead to abrupt transitions from pushing product on land to pushing a 70-foot, or 20-meter, yacht on the ocean as fast as it can reasonably - or not so reasonably - go.

    NYT > Home Page By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY 2011

  • Mr Miller's first response on picking up the prize, formerly known as the Whitbread Book Awards, was "blimey".

    BBC News - Home 2012

  • The race, once called the Whitbread, is part traveling trade show and part extreme sporting event, which can lead to abrupt transitions from pushing product on land to pushing a 70-foot, or 20-meter, yacht on the ocean as fast as it can reasonably - or not so reasonably - go.

    NYT > Home Page By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY 2011

  • Yachts competing in the Volvo Ocean Race docked in Alicante, Spain, where the latest edition of what was once called the Whitbread begins Saturday.

    NYT > Home Page By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY 2011

  • It will mark a return to the gruelling offshore event for Team NZ managing director Grant Dalton, who has competed in the event, previously known as the Whitbread race, six times.

    New Zealand Herald - Top Stories newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz 2010

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