ROLLING off the Washington production line last year, 480,485 Nissans made their way from the North East to homes around the world. The Wearside factory is now the biggest car-maker in the UK, producing more vehicles last year than anyone has ever managed before. Indeed, the plant is so successful that it keeps on breaking its own records - its impressive total last year smashed its own previous record from 2010, when it made 423,262 cars. It is a remarkable success story that has boosted the North East's economic fortunes - not least because the factory employs 5,462 workers. The combination of Japanese efficiency and Wearside skill has clearly proved a winning formula. So it is unsurprising then that the factory has been held up as a model by politicians and business leaders keen to a...
... have called on Westminster to devolve tax powers. As it stands, the Republic of Ireland's rate of 1...
PLAID Cymru's Ieuan Wyn Jones has announced he is quitting as leader. The former deputy first minister told party faithful on Anglesey yesterday he is to step down after nearly 11 years as leader. It comes a week after the Assembly election when Plaid lost four seats to slump to its poorest showing since the Senedd was created in 1999. During his reign Mr Jones took the party into government for the first time in its 86-year history and was instrumental in the successful referendum on full law making powers for Wales. He said there was "no greater honour" than serving Wales. The Anglesey AM previously stood down as leader after a party rebellion in 2003 - only to be re-elected as the party's Assembly leader later that year. Yesterday he set out the timetable for his departure in the fir...
...Manchester old and Division Two play-off final at Wembley. He said: "I am also...
... plans outlined yesterday by the SNP government.The most detailed timetable yet for the creation o... Scottish Government with the full range of powers it needs to develop the country."She said the publ...-16: Negotiations continue with UK on division of financial assets and liabilities, military base...
Colin Firth ACTOR Could it get any better for Firth, who had a watershed year? Won the best actor Oscar and Bafta for The King's Speech, snagged a key role in Brit hit Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and topped the list for every leading British role on offer. He's just finished a remake of Gambit with Cameron Diaz and is picking his parts carefully now. Does that mean we won't be seeing him in St Trinian's 3? Tim Bevan Eric Fellner WORKING TITLE S, PRODUCERS If UK super producers Bevan and Fellner haven't delivered a Four Weddings or Love Actually smash in recent years, they still had a strong 2011 with hits Paul, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Johnny English 2 and a documentary sensation in Senna. Now operating from swanky new digs in Marylebone, the company has a powerful 2012 coming u...
...Likeable Ross is one of UK film's great powers, along with the BFI Film Fund and BBC Films. Chris... as head of the BBC's in-house production division, Langan has built a diverse film list ranging from... Nevill BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE, CEO A Government shake-up has seen Nevill absorb the film funding f...
Becoming Welsh Secretary and bringing devolution to Wales ONE of the biggest and the most dramatic surprises of my life was to be appointed secretary of state for my own nation - to be Welsh Secretary and a member of the Cabinet. Wales expected George Thomas to be secretary of state for Wales and both his memoirs make it clear that he did too.
... as a failure and would undermine the Government's precarious position. I was reasonably confident ... Scotland and Wales, which differed in the powers proposed for them. A White Paper (the one prepared... debate, "the SNP would walk through the division lobby like turkeys voting for an early Christmas"....
MICHAEL Noonan said yesterday that there had been no choice but to rush through the legislation to liquidate IBRC once the plan leaked to international news agencies. He said the first hint of a leak came when the press office of the Department of Finance experienced a spike in calls enquiring about the promissory notes. The Finance Minister said he knew the game would be up as soon as the plan to liquidate IBRC was revealed.
...Mr Noonan told a press conference in Government Buildings: 'On a number of occasions it looked as ...It also emerged that an elite division working in the Nama division of IBRC were treated ...?' In response Michael Noonan said, 'those powers' have always existed, and were merely delegated to...
A CYNICAL ploy to use rebel Tory MPs to force through punitive new press laws was exposed last night. An explosive leaked document reveals how campaigners from the Hacked Off group are secretly targeting Tory MPs 'who want to bring David Cameron down' in the hope they will sabotage Mr Cameron's plan to block state regulation of the media. It makes it clear Hacked Off despises the Conservative MPs they are wooing, but are under orders to suppress their loathing and exploit divisions within Tory ranks to muzzle the press. The leaked memo says that supporters must swallow their natural 'distrust and dislike' of Right-wing Tory MPs and take advantage of their determination to 'evict' Cameron from No10.
... statutory regulator with punitive powers'. It says: 'Within the Government there is a cabal...
One of the most appalling shipping disasters of modern times has occurred, involving the loss of the world's greatest liner with, it is feared, 1,683 lives. The Titanic, which left Southampton on Wednesday last on her maiden voyage to New York, collided with an iceberg on Sunday evening 700 miles from Cape Race and sank yesterday morning. She had 2,858 persons aboard. All her boats have been accounted for by the liners which raced to her assistance, but the Olympic only reports the safety of 675 of the crew and passengers. The news of the collision was conveyed in a series of wireless messages sent from the disabled vessel. These were picked up by several other liners, which hurried to the assistance of the Titanic. The wireless operator on board the Titanic in one of his last messages ...
...We urge the United States Government to take the initiative as soon as possible. The st... Mersey, ex-president of the Admiralty Division of the High Court, would act as Wreck Commissioner..., APRIL 23, 1912 be held show that the powers of the Board of Trade require to be supplemented i...
A CYNICAL ploy to use rebel Tory MPs to force through punitive new press laws was exposed last night. An explosive leaked document reveals how campaigners from the Hacked Off group are secretly targeting Tory MPs 'who want to bring David Cameron down' in the hope they will sabotage Mr Cameron's plan to block state regulation of the media. It makes it clear Hacked Off despises the Conservative MPs they are wooing, but are under orders to suppress their loathing and exploit divisions within Tory ranks to muzzle the press. The leaked memo says that supporters must swallow their natural 'distrust and dislike' of Right-wing Tory MPs and take advantage of their determination to 'evict' Cameron from No10.
... statutory regulator with punitive powers'. It says: 'Within the Government there is a cabal...
AT 9.30am on this day exactly 12 months ago, the workforce at Bombardier's Litchurch Lane plant were in a state of shock. They had been called together to be told by management at the train-maker that they had missed out on a Pounds 1.4 billion UK Government contract to build 1,200 new carriages for Thameslink, one which would have guaranteed them work for several years to come. Instead of looking forward to a prosperous future, the Litchurch Lane plant was looking down the barrel of a gun. After missing out on the multi-billion pound InterCity Express Programme contract - awarded to a consortium led by Japanese firm Hitachi - many felt it was unthinkable the Government would overlook Bombardier again. Among the workers who had gathered on that day were Kevin Owen, Graeme Steeples and D...
... travelled to Bombardier's passengers division headquarters in Berlin to meet with its top brass,..., while at the same time hoping that the powers-that-be will make sure this never happens again."....
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