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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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The sick and disabled are being left out in the cold following today’s replacement of incapacity benefit with an employment and support allowance, rights groups have said. “There is now great concern that claimants will fail to receive the level of employment support promised,” said Kate Green, chief executive of Child Poverty Action group. “We… Read more »
Labour’s transport policy has failed to meet its key objectives over the last ten years and has been branded a huge disappointment, a new book out today claims. The book, titled Traffic Jam: Ten Years of Sustainable Transport in the UK, criticises the government for failing to carry out its promises set out ten years… Read more »
