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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 UK is on the verge of a new winter of discontent, opposition parties have said. The comments come as new figures show the UK economy contracting by 0.5 per cent, meaning the country is officially on the verge of recession. “This confirmation that we are heading for a recession puts a name to the… Read more »
The UK economy has suffered its worst contraction for 16 years, bringing the UK closer to recession. Between July and September and economy shrank by 0.5 per cent, following zero per cent growth in the preceding quarter. The official definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth – so without unlikely positive… Read more »
