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The Bakers Union and MP’s are again demanding that Orchard House Food pay the workers, at their recently closed Gateshead plant, the redundancy payments they are owed before Christmas. As things stand the company, that supplies the likes of Marks and Spencer and Pret A Manger, and which is a going concern with a factory still… Read more »
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has condemned an incident in the Yorkshire Dales where a nest of hen harrier chicks is suspected of being deliberately destroyed by human activity. North Yorkshire Police is calling for anyone with information about the incident near Whernside earlier this year to… Read more »
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Countries across the Western and Arab world are being pressured to pledge money to the reconstruction of Iraq. Today the international community will reveal how much of the $36 billion that the World Bank says is needed has been pledged. However it is thought that the total announced at the donors’ conference in Madrid may… Read more »
Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday downplayed the severity of his heart scare last Sunday. It was reported last wekend that Mr Blair was hit with supra ventricular tachycardia – a condition where the sufferer feels unwell, with serious heart irregularities and shortness of breath. At his monthly televised news conference in Downing Street, the 50-year… Read more »
