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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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Without treatment with modern anti-retroviral drugs, HIV patients are 11 times more likely to develop cancer than the general population, new research from Scotland has shown. The research backs up previous evidence of a correlation between HIV and certain cancers known to be linked to the virus. But the scientists from the Universities of Strathclyde… Read more »
GPs find it extremely difficult to diagnose meningitis, according to new research from the University of Bristol. It has long been accepted that the disease – which causes inflammation of the lining of the brain – is difficult to spot in its early stages, as the symptoms can be similar to those of flu. But… Read more »
