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“Knowing I am now in history makes me very proud,” he said.
And the Chelsea left-back went on to say: “It’s moments like this that make you very humble but also very proud.
“I can honestly say this has been my best season ever and this is the icing on the cake.
“Previously I played for two years with an ankle injury and it’s only this season that I’ve shaken it off.
success story and the England defender’s own return to form.
Cole commented: “He has not just rejuvenated me but all the team, we have great respect for him.
“Everyone has been on his side but next season we know we have to start again.
“We always knew Guus was going to go and we wish him all the best for the future.
Chelsea’s goalscoring hero Frank Lampard agreed with his team-mate and was full of praise for Hiddink.
“The man is a genius, magical and will be a hard act to follow,” said the England superstar.
And the midfield maestro revealed the players clubbed together to buy the Dutchman a present but he refused to say what it was.
“It was just our way of saying thanks to him because of what he has achieved at this club,” he said.
“But it’s not just down to the manager it’s also to the credit of this club.
“No matter what they threw at us we always seemed to bounce back.
“We danced at the end because there was an element of knowing we are back winning again.
“It’s been a couple of years since we won a trophy and this is a very sweet point.
Lampard raced to the corner flag after his winning goal and repeated the crazy jig his father Frank senior performed after scoring a semi-final goal for West Ham against Everton in 1980.
He added: “It wasn’t something I had in mind at the start of the match but I thought about it as the game went on.
“It was my tribute to him and my mother.
“But I never thought of that when I started doing my celebration.
“All I thought about was my dad and how he ran to the corner flag at about one mile an hour to celebrate.
Lampard also paid tribute to his late mum after his Wembley heroics.
He created Chelsea’s first goal and then hit a blistering second as they strolled out 2-1 winners against Everton.
Lampard’s mother Pat died a year ago and he said: “I did it because I know she would have loved it.
“I decided I would copy dad’s dance if I did the same. It was my tribute.
“It was amazing for us after going a goal down so early.
Didier Drogba, Chelsea’s other scoring hero, was delighted that Chelsea finally picked up a trophy after two barren years.
The Ivory Coast hitman said: “We are all delighted to end the season this way. It was a trophy we needed to win.
“If was difficult after they scored but we believed in ourselves and that is why we won.
“I don’t think the team had anything to prove after losing to Barcelona.
“We did everything that day to try and win, but I had to worry because of what I said after the game.
“This makes it a fantastic end of the season.
Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis the Hon. Dr. Timothy Harris is confident in the management of the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank and indicates that there is no issues of concern regarding that institution. He added any problems that may require remedial action were created by the previous Douglas Government.
The document indicated that there were deficiencies with the group structure and weaknesses such as no independent directors; poor functioning of committees; absence of updated policies and procedures; and one director who does not meet the fit and proper criteria set out in part VIII of the Banking Act.
However speaking in Parliament this week Dr. Harris noted that the bank was being properly managed and there was no issues.
Dr Harris, however, noted that the issues currently affecting the bank are problems that were inherited from the previous administration, such as the Land for Debt swap, but admitted the current board has to fix.
Dr. Harris also labelled the leaking of the document as a ploy to undermine the functioning of the institution.
ECCB Governor Timothy Antoine last week in an interview on radio stated their institution is responsible for regulation and supervision of all banking business in the currency union.
He added that they often undertake on-site inspections, and off-site examination of banks but the findings are not disclosed to the public.
“The law is very clear we cannot disclose or discuss examination reports, that is between the regulator and the bank and so we cannot engage in any public discussion of any sort on specific issues raised with our respective bank..
“It is a standard operating procedure around the world that examination reports are not shared and not disclosed. Having said that, banks do have a duty of care to their shareholders, banks are required to publish annual reports that give a full education not just on their financial standing but also areas of other operations across the bank,” Antoine said.
Bruce Willis has range — and so does his dome.
The “Die Hard” actor stopped by Jimmy Fallon‘s “Tonight Show” on Friday with a beautifully coiffed crop of perfectly blond Donald Trump hair — not his usual shaved-bald look.
“It suddenly has just seemed to grow exponentially … I was a blond when I was a kid,” Willis told Fallon, assuring his NBC host that the obviously mocking wig was his real hair. Sound familiar?
In a second segment last night, Willis donned a red “Make America Great Again” cap, also a la the “Celebrity Apprentice” host-turned- presidential candidate.
The movie star was on the couch promoting his new film “Rock the Kasbah” with Bill Murray, which opens Oct. 23.
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DETROIT, July 10 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T)(TM.N) said on Thursday it would start building its Prius hybrid in the United States in 2010 and suspend production of slow-selling big trucks for three months in a sharp reversal of strategy forced by slumping sales and high gas prices.
Toyota, which has faced widening shortages of fuel- efficient small cars in recent months, will start building its top-selling hybrid at a new Mississippi plant, originally scheduled to produce the Highlander sport utility vehicle.
The unusual and costly moves by Toyota, now the global auto sales leader, underscored the pressure across the industry as major automakers scuttle truck production and take steps to ramp up output of passenger cars to keep up with a dramatic shift in U.S. buying patterns.
Hit by an industry-wide slump in trucks and SUVs, Toyota posted a 6 percent drop in first-half sales in in the United States, its single-biggest market.
To clear inventory, Toyota said it would suspend production of its Sequoia SUV and redesigned Tundra pickup truck for three months beginning in early August.
At the same time, Toyota said it would work to retool a plant still under construction near Tupelo, Mississippi to build the new Prius, starting in late 2010. All of the Prius models now sold in the United States are built at a dedicated assembly plant in Japan.
The Tundra represents Toyota’s attempt to break into the market for full-size pickup trucks, still dominated by Detroit automakers. The Japanese automaker had called plans for its expanded production in the United States its most important vehicle launch ever.
But Toyota, like its American rivals led by General Motors Corp (GM.N), overestimated demand for the heavy work trucks that had seen a boom over the past decade when gas was cheaper and the U.S. housing market was embarking on its own rally.
Toyota said it would stop making the Tundra pickup truck at its Princeton, Indiana, plant and concentrate production at the $1.2 billion plant it opened in San Antonio in early 2007.
Those steps will cut Toyota’s Tundra production capacity by a third to 200,000 units annually, a concession that the pickup truck market is not going to bounce back.
Jeff Liker, University of Michigan engineering professor and author of “The Toyota Way” said Toyota had made a rare, out-sized mistake by betting big on the Tundra.
By moving Prius production to the United States, Toyota raised the stakes for a showdown with GM on the next-generation of electric vehicles.
GM is scheduled to begin production of its all-electric Chevrolet Volt in a Detroit plant in late 2010. The U.S. automaker is looking for the rechargeable hybrid to trump the Prius as the green car of choice for consumers looking to reduce gas consumption and make an environmental statement.
For its part, Toyota will show off its next-generation Prius at January’s Detroit auto show amid expectations it will broaden its hybrid line-up under the Prius brand.
But in the meantime, it has had to contend with falling sales and Prius shortages.
U.S. sales of the hybrid fell 26 percent in June as dealers simply ran out of the cars. Buyers face a six-month wait for new orders of the hybrid, credited with creating a kind of environmentally friendly cachet for the Japanese automaker.
“It’s tremendous news. We are very excited,” said John McEleney, a Toyota dealer in Clinton, Iowa.
Toyota’s Tupelo plant, the company’s eighth assembly plant in North America, had been budgeted at $1.3 billion with capacity to produce 150,000 vehicles per year.
Toyota announced plans for the plant in early 2007 after winning $296 million in tax incentives from Mississippi.
Liker said Toyota’s supplier would have to scramble to adjust to the radical shift in its production plans, which could cost the automaker billions of dollars.
But while his crop had been about three weeks ahead of schedule because of the warm winter, most blooms and berries haven’t yet emerged, giving hope that his harvest will be saved.
A larger problem for strawberry growers may be having enough water to spray their plants if cold weather persists, said Kevin Hardison, an agriculture marketing specialist with the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Many farm ponds are not full because of dry fall and early winter weather.
Workers at Mooresville’s Carrigan Farms, a pick-your-own operation, were waiting Thursday morning for the ice to melt off their plants before assessing damage.
“We’ll have strawberries, maybe not the early cop that we might have, but we will have strawberries,” said owner Doug Carrigan. He expects to start harvesting in late April.