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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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Tony Blair’s premiership has been a decade of waste, his critics claim, and unusually one of his closest confidantes agrees. Lord Falconer, the lord chancellor, admits Mr Blair missed the opportunity to push for radical reforms in public services in the years immediately following his landslide election victory. In an interview with the Guardian to… Read more »
The home secretary John Reid has insisted that the Labour party will not become “fractured” after current leader Tony Blair steps down. There is much speculation about when Mr Blair will quit as leader, but most commentators expect the prime minister to leave in the week after the Scottish parliament, Welsh assembly and local elections… Read more »
