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  • ...r the FSA’s role in Northern Rock’s downfall angered parliamentarians. One MP on the Committee, [[Sion Simon]], told McCarthy: “You are the Sugar Ra ...Consumer Communications for England and a Non-Executive Director of The [[North West London Hospitals NHS Trust]] and [[Octagon HealthCare Ltd]], a special
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  • ...est attempted three times to enter the House of Commons before winning the East Dorset seat in the January 1910 general election. Although unseated because ...he War Office and with political leaders. Later (1916) Guest served in the East African theater and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. After bein
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  • .... The challenge, it says, regarding both trade and production standards is one of balance.<ref name="fit"/> ...ael Gove]], environment secretary wrote two lengthy articles for Portland, one in June 2016, the other in February 2017, about what Brexit would mean and
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  • ...due to the weak oil price slowing construction spending across the Middle East. ...16% as about £15m was removed from Carillion's 2005 operating profits in one fell swoop)37 as the Government tried to save face over the series of rail
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  • ...o dissociate itself from past 'mistakes' in Nigeria and 'accidents' in the North Sea. ...lition in 1998 (see Influence/Lobbying section) Shell wished to be seen as one of the pioneer corporations, taking climate change seriously. Even before i
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  • [[Shell]] is the largest operator in the British North Sea (in Joint venture with Esso). Shell has 3 refineries in the UK at Stanl ...the two companies hold 60 per-cent and 40 per-cent respectively of assets. One cannot by shares in the group as such. Royal Dutch and Shell are listed sep
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  • ...financial services, healthcare, media. It describes the PFI/PPP market as one with 'strong underlying macro growth trends'. On its website GSL describes itself as 'one of the fastest growing companies in [the PFI] marketplace', a view that is
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  • GSL runs three prisons in the UK: HMP Wolds in East Yorkshire, the first privatised prison in the UK, and two PFI contracts, HM ...2005 the government abandoned this plan. The Bicester centre was the only one of these centres to have received planning permission; at the time of writi
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  • ...sisting Royal Dutch Shell in exploiting oil on Sakhalin Island, in the Far East of Russia. ...also been criticised not only for opposing organised labour, but for going one step further. In 1998, its handbook for managers on how to fight unions in
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  • If one man ever held a key to the complex interconnections between the Radical Rig ...is own expense, a private counter subversive intelligence service that had one unique feature. Every man and woman working in it could be trusted". He con
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  • :"One of the first tasks initiated by Sir Aukland Geddes was the compilation of a ...Party and establish itself as an non-aligned pro-industry lobby. Hall was one of the most outspoken and right wing "Diehard" Unionist MPs. Geddes on the
    37 KB (5,842 words) - 14:51, 17 August 2007
  • ...mes public, remained. When Gaitskell unexpectedly died in 1963, Wilson was one of the few candidates for the Party leadership who could command support on ...West in world development, supplemented by the expansion of trade between East and West, would not only lead to an immeasurably higher standard of living
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  • ...reer, and it created enduring problems that he never effectively resolved. One of the most extraordinary features of his handling of the strike were his s ...y were so pleased with their role that they celebrated it in an article in one of their monthly newsletters:
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  • ...ocialism the necessity for the League's continued existence will abate not one jot; for the price of freedom is eternal vigilance and the league will need ...tion was Noar's predecessor as Director General - [[Peter Savill]]. On the one hand Savill had to convince the League's surviving members that it still ha
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  • ...the committee. It was not only one of the League's largest subscribers but one of the few who had publicly supported the League. While the League were abo ...city for their "services" and cuttings from left-wing papers including the one which was a crude forgery. They also offered to provide the committee with
    28 KB (4,501 words) - 13:41, 13 September 2007
  • ..., and sometimes in a downright misleading way. [[Amec]], for example, told one council with whom it was entering a £20m contract, that it did not subscri ...Industrialists]], others have made payments via a solicitor's and at least one, [[British Leyland]], handled its contacts with the League through a small
    19 KB (2,123 words) - 20:36, 1 October 2007
  • ...bout the kind of corporate image UK PLC wants to portray - and if it isn't one of exploitation and hardship then it must step in now." ActionAid investiga ..., who are forced to work eighty-four hour weeks. [[Europackaging]] is just one example of a supplier used by Asda, who have been found using illegal and e
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  • ...Over the last forty years, Haskins has built this company up from a small north of England-based dairy into a giant food conglomerate. ...inally Northern Dairies, was founded by [[Alec Horsley]] on Spalding Moor, East Yorkshire, in 1937.
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  • ...n a more local scale, is beyond me. Besides, one of his key arguments, and one of the main reasons why he wants us to join the Euro, is that the value of Meridian East
    21 KB (3,344 words) - 16:34, 5 May 2007
  • ...responsibility for Asia. In 1999 he was named president for the company's North American and Global Beauty Care divisions. ...553,163.39) salary last year [34]. This means his salary rose by 46.4% in one year!
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