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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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Scottish Labour leader Jack McConnell has attacked the SNP’s plans to replace the council tax with a local income tax, branding aspects of it “scandalous”. Mr McConnell acknowledged that council tax is unpopular but insisted it is the most stable way of funding local government. A local income tax would create the “scandalous” situation where… Read more »
The Welsh Conservatives have been denounced by their former leader, with one time AM and MP Rod Richards announcing he will not be voting Tory in next month’s Welsh election. Mr Richards said he had “no regard whatsoever” for the current Conservative assembly leader Nick Bourne and had made the “positive decision” not to support… Read more »
