* general election 2010
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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In the first part of a special two-part feature, Ian Dunt travels to Hampshire to visit the seats which just might decide the general election. By Ian Dunt This is part one of a special two-part feature. The second part will be published in tomorrow’s politics.co.uk. Hampshire should, by the laws of natural justice, belong… Read more »
A heckler has been thrown out of a Labour party event after he complained about broadband provision. Julian Borthwick repeatedly interrupted a speech Gordon Brown was giving at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland today. He was eventually removed, to applause from the audience, who had been irritated that his voice was drowning out the… Read more »
