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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 Ian Dunt The government is being accused of smuggling a clause into today’s coroners and justice bill which will effectively overwrite Britain’s data protection laws. Clause 152 of the bill, which has garnered little media attention due to the headline issues which surround it, grants any government minister the power to enforce the sharing… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff MPs are to consider plans to introduce secret coroner’s inquests later today. The coroners and justice bill contains plans originally included in last year’s Counter Terrorism Act which would make some inquests where national security is judged to be under threat held out of the public eye. Civil liberties groups have expressed… Read more »
