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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 politics.co.uk staff Britain had just four days of natural gas in storage during the recent cold weather, it has been revealed. Figures from the National Grid showed a new low of 11,830 GWh on February 20th, enough to meet four days of average gas demand. The Conservatives have accused the government of complacency on… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff A government scheme to aid those in fuel poverty is not fit for purpose, leading charities have claimed today. A report by the National Audit Office today has shown the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) Warm Front scheme to tackle fuel poverty by improving energy efficiency has aided over 635,000… Read more »
