Party Politics
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 politics.co.uk staff Unless Labour’s fortunes improve, the party could be destroyed, former home secretary Charles Clarke has said. In a Straight Talk interview with Andrew Neil, he said: “If we don’t make a change in our performance, we could be seeing almost the destruction of the Labour party which would be a total, total… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Hazel Blears “enormously” regrets the timing of her resignation last week, she has admitted. Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, the former communities secretary, who resigned just before the local and European election vote and hours before PMQs, said she misjudged the situation. She thought that because of the ministerial resignations which… Read more »

