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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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James Purnell sought to unify Labour supporters in his speech to conference this afternoon by presenting them with the consequences of defeat at the next election. The work and pensions secretary reminded party supporters of the “ghosts” of past defeats and the “bitter frustration” of being out of government. Mr Purnell said the party had… Read more »
Foreign secretary David Miliband believes a “corrosive sense of fatalism” is affecting British society. Speaking at a fringe event at the Labour party conference in Manchester, Mr Miliband warned that “the biggest task of this conference is to combat this sense of fatalism”. He told a Fabian Society audience the pessimism shown before the Olympics… Read more »
