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Pirelli staff: Why is factory still shut?
Published 28 August 2008
WORKERS at Carlisle’s Pirelli factory claim they are being kept in the dark over a temporary shutdown of the site.
Sellafield site takeover still on course
Published 28 August 2008
THE proposed new operator of Sellafield has denied speculation its takeover of the site could be delayed by strike action.
Sellafield takeover is still on course
Published 28 August 2008
THE proposed new operator of Sellafield has denied speculation its takeover of the site could be delayed by strike action.
Profit is at odds with prediction
Published 28 August 2008
IRISH bookmaker Paddy Power has issued a profit warning, blaming a run of unfavourable sporting results and the wider downturn in spending.
SELLAFIELD CONTRACTOR’S PROFITS JOY
Published 28 August 2008
CONSTRUCTION firm Costain, a major contractor at Sellafield, has revealed a 26 per cent increase in pre-tax profits.
Pirelli staff: Why is factory still shut?
Published 28 August 2008
WORKERS at Carlisle’s Pirelli factory claim they are being kept in the dark over a temporary shutdown of the site.
Not so convenient food!
Published 26 August 2008
WORKERS in Carlisle are wasting a massive £4.4k per year thanks to their typical daily routines.
Reactor’s final de-fuelling misson begins
Published 26 August 2008
MAGNOX North’s Chapelcross site has begun the next phase in its life with the start of final de-fuelling of Reactor 1.
The power of training
Published 26 August 2008
DUMFRIES and Galloway College is working with Chapelcross Power Station to offer free computer and work book-based training programmes to its staff.
REASONS TO GO TO NEW PHARMACY ARE LEGION
Published 25 August 2008
ROMAN solider Maximus will be opening a new pharmacy in Haltwhistle tomorrow.
Rip-off of store cards
Published 22 August 2008
SPLASHING out on a brand new summer or autumn wardrobe may cost shoppers far more than they had initially expected.
City food company 100 jobs boost
Published 21 August 2008
A CARLISLE food company that started with two local businessmen trading from the back of a van is expanding, creating up to 100 new jobs.
Persimmon profits fall
Published 21 August 2008
THE house building sector, rarely out of the headlines this year, was again in focus as York-based Persimmon reported its results for the six months of the year, revealing a fall in profit to £36.9m from £281.1m in the corresponding period last year and house sales in the period dropped to 5,501 from 8,002.
City food company 100 jobs boost
Published 21 August 2008
A CARLISLE food company that started with two local businessmen trading from the back of a van is expanding, creating up to 100 new jobs.
International conference at Sellafield
Published 21 August 2008
A GROUP of the most eminent experts in highly radioactive work from around the world are flying in to Cumbria for a two-day conference at Sellafield.
No time to take a holiday
Published 20 August 2008
ONE in five small business owners in the north west don’t have the time to take a single day’s holiday during an entire working year,
Firms in the running for PRide gongs
Published 20 August 2008
THREE Cumbrian organisations have been shortlisted in the 2008 north west PRide awards.
SUMMER SALE BID TO WOO CUSTOMERS
Published 20 August 2008
NETTO stores in Cumbria have announced a summer sale with an ‘extra’ 25 per cent off the price of all non-food items to help lift the credit crunch gloom.
New wave in UK energy
Published 19 August 2008
THE world’s first commercial-scale tidal turbine – which was designed and built by Bendalls Engineering in Carlisle – has delivered electricity into the National Grid for the first time.
Soaring costs hit Xstrata
Published 19 August 2008
FOLLOWING on from yesterday’s announcement of BHP Billiton’s full-year numbers (see City News), today it was UK mining group Xstrata hitting the headlines.
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