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Harris Tweed: Weaving a brighter future By Douglas Fraser Business and economy editor, Scotland 8 June 2013   From the section Scotland business Jump media player Media player help Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Media caption The fashionable rise of Harris tweed One of the bigger problems in trying to sell Harris Tweed is that it is so durable. Once a chap's got one jacket, he's unlikely ever to need a replacement. And that factor is what nearly made the industry itself much less durable than its own output. Five years after it came close to a sales meltdown, it's back and growing. Between 2009 and last year, production more than doubled - from 450,000 metres of cloth to more than one million. That is the highest output for 17 years. There is still a long way to go before returning to the seven million metre high point in 1966. Brian Wilson, the former Labour government minister who is closely involved wi...

London's Most Unusual Pub Interiors SHARE Below, we've rounded up a few of the more oddball pub interiors around town. We've left out glorious traditional spaces like the Princess Louise or Palm Tree in favour of true originals with one-off peculiarities. Impressive pub conversions like The Counting House and Tooting Tram & Social will be covered in another article. 1. The Windsor Castle, Marylebone The name hints at royalist tendencies. The  mannequin sentry , standing guard outside, suggests a certain eccentricity. But step inside the Windsor Castle and you are confronted by a right royal onslaught. The Queen and her blue-blooded relatives are everywhere, glowering down from photographs, etchings, ornaments and crockery, as though the bar manager wanted to put the 'publican' back into 'anti-republican'. Any gaps in this august clutter are taken by framed photos of sporting heroes, or fading stars of the screen. Turn...