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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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By Peter Wozniak A report by a number of foreign policy experts has issued a damning verdict on the government’s strategic defence and security review (SDSR). The LSE-published document argues against “starving” the Foreign Office of resources – and claims the government’s focus on big defence projects and international aid may be mistaken. The authors,… Read more »
By Peter Wozniak Working families stand to lose out far more than those which are unemployed from the impact of the spending review, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has claimed. The union unveiled a study which it claimed demonstrated that of the £15.9 billion welfare cuts announced in the Budget and the spending review, £9.4… Read more »
