2,000 face redundancy at English steelworks

Saturday, May 9, 2009 Corus Group, the world’s fifth largest steel producer, announced on Friday that it may be forced to mothball its steelworks in Redcar, England. This move would threaten the jobs of the works’ 1,920 employees. Corus may be forced to close its Teesside operations as a consortium has refused to honour a 10-year contract with Corus’ Teesside Cast Products, which accounted for 78% of the plant’s operations. Corus’ chief executive, Kirby Adams, said he was “extremely disappointed that the consortium members have seen fit to take this…

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Woman returns home with Christmas turkey, a month after setting out

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 A Scottish woman who set out before Christmas to purchase a turkey finally made it home on Monday, after being cut off by snow for a month. Kay Ure left the Lighthouse Keeper’s cottage on Cape Wrath, at the very northwest tip of Great Britain, in December. She was heading to Inverness on a shopping trip. However on her return journey heavy snow and ice prevented her husband, John, from travelling the last 11 miles to pick her up. She was forced to wait a month…

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Howard government confirms “secret nuclear power committee”

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 An internal government committee has been created to look at Australia’s nuclear energy role. The Federal Government has admitted it has set up a “secret committee” to examine the economics and science of nuclear power. During a Senate estimates committee, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s deputy secretary, Duncan Lewis confirmed that the committee had been formed following statements by US President George W Bush to create a global nuclear energy partnership. He told the Senate estimates that the committee would effectively try to develop…

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Irish inflation creeps upwards to 2.4%

Saturday, June 11, 2005 The inflation rate in Ireland, as measured by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), edged upwards to hit a five month high in May at 2.4%. This represents a 0.2% rise on the previous month when the rate stood at 2.2%. The major contributors to the rise were increased transportation, healthcare, and education costs. In April the EU25 average rate of inflation was 2.1%, with Latvia having the highest rate at 7.1% and Sweden the lowest at 0.4%. Despite the increase in the rate, Irish inflation remains…

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Explosion at ConAgra plant in North Carolina, multiple injuries

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 An explosion has caused catastrophic damage to a ConAgra Foods plant on Jones Sausage Road in Garner, North Carolina in the United States. At least 300 people were at work in the plant at the time of the incident, 11:27 a.m. EDT (3:27 UTC) on June 9. Estimates indicate that up to 46 people were sent to area hospitals, and, as of 4:00 p.m. EDT, three people are still unaccounted for. The plant was formerly owned by Raleigh, North Carolina based Goodmark Foods, but was purchased…

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Christian youth camp directors charged with dragging 15-year-old girl behind van

Monday, August 13, 2007 Charles Eugene Flowers and Stephanie Bassitt, who run Love Demonstrated Ministries in San Antonio, Texas, United States, have been arrested and charged with aggravated assault for tying a girl to their van and dragging her behind it on her stomach. The victim had stopped running with a group of campers, after falling behind. She says Bassitt yelled at her while Flowers tied her to the van. The girl was treated for injuries on her stomach, legs and arms. She reported that this was the second assault.…

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Affordable Health Dental Insurance Guide To Finding Federal Dental Insurance

By Jane A. Smith In looking for a government sponsored dental insurance, you have to consider two basic facts. One, that most federal dental insurance plan is for those employed by the federal governments only. Second, there are also government sponsored dental insurance purposely designed for the residents of the state and can availed only by the low income group. If you are an employee of the federal government, there are many options open to you with regards to your family’s dental insurance plan. There is really no need for…

A leak at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility on Cumbrian coast, England

Monday, May 9, 2005 At the Sellafield reprocessing plant, a leak in the process was spotted on April 19. The leak did not cause danger to people or the environment but it disturbed the normal operation of the plant. Workers at the plant noticed a discrepancy in the amount of material being reprocessed that enters pipes that lead to a set of centrifuges and the amount of material actually arriving at the centrifuges. They used remote cameras to find the crack where the material was escaping; over twenty tonnes have…

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A Review Of Spelling Games For Kids}

Click Here For More Specific Information On: Unique Gifts For Children Art And Craft For Children Submitted by: Morgan Hamilton Spelling games for kids, like all education, prepares our children for the real world. Though the formal education ends with a high school or college degree, the informal education continues until the end of ones days. While it comes to starting the learning process, there are certain basic qualities to develop in the children. They quickly identify the relationship between different things they find in nature and they begin to…